Barlow was born on 8 April 1963 in
Adelaide, South Australia. In 1965, his family moved to
Balwyn North, Victoria. He pursued drawing at an early age, self publishing his first
comic book,
Fudsey, at age of 10, and the next year had his comic
Zeroy serialized over four weeks in a Sunday paper called
The Observer. Barlow began his professional cartooning career with
Australian Scout Magazine at the age of sixteen, two years later he became a regular contributor to
Melbourne based
Inkspots Magazine.
Minotaur Books proprietor, Colin Paraskevas, published Barlow's
Zooniverse comic internationally in a joint venture with
Eclipse Comics between 1986 and 1987.
Richard Raynis, then producer at
DIC offered Barlow the character design supervisor position on
ALF, which he worked on from 1987 to 1989. Barlow returned to
Australia, moving to the
Gold Coast, Queensland in 1992 creating the comic
Rex Vectar, which was serialized in
Megazone Magazine in 1992 and ran until 1994, he also established his own publishing and animation production house,
Zoonimedia. In mid-1994, he moved to
Brisbane, with
Helen Maier one of the artists associated with
Kinetic Comics. In 1996, Barlow returned to
Los Angeles with Maier, establishing an animation production house, Artopia. Through his company Barlow has worked as a character design supervisor and lead character designer at
Columbia TriStar Television, working on
Extreme Ghostbusters,
Godzilla: The Series, the 3D series
Starship Troopers: Roughneck Chronicles,
Max Steel,
Heavy Gear and
Adam Sandler's feature
Eight Crazy Nights. From 2001 onwards, Barlow has worked independently as character and production designer on
Tutenstein,
Igor and the co-creation with
Helen Maier of the game
Spectrobes for
Disney. In 2010, Barlow returned to
Melbourne Australia to focus solely on
Zooniverse. Barlow began submitting
Zoon related animations each month to the web site
Loop De Loop, and established a new company
Zoonitoons with Maier and in 2012, they began republishing his
Zooniverse and
Rex Vectar comics. In 2014, the couple began collaborating on
8House: Yorris for
Image Comics. ==Credits==