Best known for his comic series Minimum Wage (Fantagraphics Books), Fingerman’s contributions to the world of comic books have been many and varied.

In 1984, while still a student at New York’s School of Visual Arts, he produced work for Harvey Kurtzman (creator of Mad magazine and Playboy’s “Little Annie Fanny”) on the short-lived young readers anthology NUTS! At the same time Fingerman also signed a contract to produce a series of comical parodies of the Italian comic series, RanXerox, exclusively for the European market, which ran in such magazines as France’s L'Écho des savanes and Comics USA, and Spain’s El Vibora. He made friends with a couple of the guys working at the old Forbidden Planet store on Broadwaywho were forming the US' premier Ska Band: The Toasters. He drew the front and back cover for their first LP in 1985.

Fingerman toiled in the disparate realms of children's satire, pornography, sci-fi and illustration, producing work regularly for Cracked magazine (Mad’s most venerable knock-off), Al Goldstein’s infamous tabloid, Screw, Penthouse, Hot Talk, Heavy metal, National Lampoon, and High Times, the Village Voice and many other periodicals.

In 1990 he decided to focus on doing comics. He did a yearlong stint on The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, as well as several titles for the Eros Comix line of adult comics. Among those were Skinheads in Love (which drew praise from The Village Voice Literary Supplement) and Bloodsucker, a collaboration with punk icon Lydia Lunch. He also created covers and short stories for Dark Horse Comics, and DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint.

In 1993 Fingerman wrote and drew his first graphic novel, White Like She, a sci-fi social satire about a middle-aged black man whose brain is transplanted into a white teenage girl’s head.

Upon completion of this purely fictional work, Fingerman decided to turn his attention inward. The result was the semi-autobiographical series, Minimum Wage (Fantagraphics Books), which in 2003 was collected and extensively reworked as the Fantagraphics graphic novel, Beg the Question (and which was nominated for both an Ignatz Award as well as two Eisner Awards).

Fingerman has broadened his palette, turning to prose, and continuing to work in comics. His most recent offerings are the humor collection You Deserved It, Winter’s Dregs & Other Stories, the zombie graphic novel, Recess Pieces (described on Fangoria's website as "The Little Rascals meets Dawn of the Dead"), and his debut prose novel, Bottomfeeder. In 2009, his releases included the trippy illustrated novella Connective Tissue.

In March 2010, the post-apocalyptic "speculative memoir" From the Ashes was released as a graphic novel. In August 2010, Pariah, a frightening, darkly comedic look at people surviving a zombie onslaught, will be published by Tor Books. Pariah is the second of Fingerman's prose novels.

Fingerman lives in New York City with his wife, Michele.

Comics

• From the Ashes (2010)
• Beg The Question graphic novel
• You Deserved It graphic novel
• Zombie World: Winter's Degs & Other Stories graphic novel
• White Like She
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• 2099 Unlimited #2, #10 (1994, 1996)
• Skinheads in Love
• Monkey Jank
• Bloodsucker with Lydia Lunch
• Minimum Wage miniseries
• Recess Pieces graphic novel (2006)

Novels

• Bottomfeeder (2006)
• Pariah (2010)

Illustrated Novellas

• Connective Tissue (2009)