Warhola briefly worked for his uncle Andy Warhol at
Interview magazine but left that job to become a science fiction illustrator, at which his uncle expressed his disgust in his
diary. As a science fiction illustrator in the early 1980s, Warhola did cover art for more than 300 books. Warhola is also one of
Mad's "Usual Gang of Idiots," illustrating articles and covers for
Mad. Warhola has been a fantasy gamer and has done cover art for role-playing games and magazines like
Different Worlds. He wrote and illustrated ''Uncle Andy's: A Faabbbulous Visit with Andy Warhol
(Putnam, 2003) about his uncle. The book garnered much attention with a feature article in The New York Times'' and interviews on television and
NPR. The publisher offered this description:
Horn Book commented, "In his debut as a writer, James Warhola uses a conversational style and childlike precision to describe one particular visit in 1962, when Warhol had recently made the transition from illustrator to fine artist. The watercolor illustrations are full of details." ''Uncle Andy's
was also reviewed by Marianne Saccardi in School Library Journal'': In 2009 a spin-off book titled ''Uncle Andy's Cats'' was published. This told the story of how Andy Warhol's two cats had twenty five kittens and how he resolved the situation when he realized he had too many cats. Warhola has worked for several major publishing houses, among them
Warner Books and
Prentice Hall. He serves as a consultant to the
Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art in
Medzilaborce,
Slovakia, near the Warhola ancestral village of
Miková. ==Personal life==