Born in 1971 in Hancock, Michigan, Daniel C. Boyer spent his childhood in nearby Houghton, with the exception of 1981-82, when the family lived in London, Ontario, Canada. In 1987, after chancing upon Andre Breton's "Manifestoes of Surrealism" in a college library, he made his first automatic drawings and paintings. He would join the Surrealist Movement in the United States in 1992. In 1994 he moved to Waltham, Massachusetts; the same year his book "The Octopus Frets: political poems" (for which he also did the frontispiece) was published. He graduated in 1997 from Curry College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Politics and History, after which he studied at Harvard University. He then moved to Concord, New Hampshire. In 1998 he moved briefly to Medford, Massachusetts before returning to Concord; this same year he made his first entopic graphomanias. In 2001 he returned to Houghton. In 2003 his artist's book "The Tailgating Spinster" was published by Fiji Island Mermaid Press. In 2005 he was named an Academical Knight of Verbano by the International Academic Order "Greci-Marino." 2008 saw the publication of his "The Peloponnesian Snows," perhaps the first-ever book entirely in the webdings font, for which Boyer also did the dust-cover design. He is an honorary alumnus of The Johns Hopkins University.  His artwork had been displayed in eight North-American solo exhibitions and almost three hundred group exhibitions on every continent except Antarctica and it is also included in a number of museum collections.