Michael T. Gilbert attended the State University of New York. He graduated from SUNY at New Paltz in 1973, and published his first comic stories that same year in his self-published New Paltz Comix. He began drawing for several Star Reach and Kitchen Sink titles. He produced a mix of underground comix (Slow Death, Bizarre Sex, American Splendor by Harvey Pekar) and ground-level comics such as Star*Reach and Quack!. He also did script and artwork on Aardvark's Strange Brew, Tiny Terror Tales and Wraith. He also contributed to their magazine, Changeling Times. He worked on the celebrated Elric series with P. Craig Russell, and is best known as the creator of Mr. Monster, which has been published by Pacific Comics, Eclipse Comics and Dark Horse Comics since 1984. He has also worked on Rat Hater, Mr. V., Wacky Squirrel and Fantagraphics' Critters and Prime Cuts. In recent years he has written or drawn characters as diverse as Superman, Batman, Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse. He has been a scriptwriter for Disney comics since 1990, as has his wife Janet Gilbert. He has written and drawn Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight, which reflects, in a very creative way, on sixty years of Batman adventures.