About Magnum Arts
In Michael K. Lyman is founder and creative director of Magnum Arts, an arts-related business whose motto is Inspire, Create, Engage. His first graphic novel, Dark Office, will be published this year, with more graphic novel projects in the works.
He is a veteran of the military with a degree in graphic design and photography who provides inclusive art and photography instruction to home school students and online. In Florida, he has taught Cartooning and Drawing since 2007 at the Dunedin Fine Arts Center, and for towns throughout Pinellas County, and the Morean Arts Center in St. Petersburg.
He has provided art therapy to at-risk teens at juvenile detention facilities in the Tampa Bay area and conducted art activities at the prestigious Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg. He is also an annual guest art teacher at the Shorecrest Preparatory School, Our Savior Lutheran School (both in St. Petersburg), and the Lighthouse Center for Creative Learning in Brandon, where he teaches kids how to unleash their creative potential.
He has participated in area comic-cons and street festivals, and has also volunteered at The Spring, a domestic violence shelter in Tampa, providing art workshops for residents and their children. Most recently, he has become a teacher with the Pinellas County School system.
An Active Life
Military portrait, Ft. Sill, 1985 
On the weapons range 
Firing a LAW rocket 
Basic training howitzer 
Summer camp counselor, Dobbs Ferry NY 
Art teacher at the Dali Museum, St. Petersburg 
Visits to VA hospitals 
Organizing Star Wars visits to local childrens’ hospitals 
Leading a squad of Stormtroopers through Hollywood Studios 
Live TV appearances 
Hanging with Vader 
At my table at a local comic-con 
Guest teaching at local schools 
Showing kids how to draw 
Private lessons for differently-abled students 
Receiving my badge from the Pinellas County Sheriffs Department 
Meeting Lee Majors, The Six Million Dollar Man himself, a childhod hero
