Aleksey Merinov

Aleksey Viktorovich Merinov (; born 25 March 1959) is a Russian self-taught painter and cartoonist.
Biography.
Merinov was born in Moscow. He served in the Soviet Navy. In his youth he worked as a graphic designer in the Romen Theatre.
Since 1988 he has been working at the newspaper "Moskovskij Komsomolets". He illustrated more than two dozen books. Among them: the Criminal Code and the Tax Code, Collection of recipes, a collection of quotations by Vladimir Putin. He has released over a dozen albums with his pictures.
He is a fan of CSKA Moscow.