Werner Wünschmann, born in Glückstadt on the Elbe in 1957, lives with his wife in Hamburg. While his wife earned the money, Werner looked after the children and the household. In his spare time he painted and drew a lot. In the past he has created backdrops for puppet theatres, murals for restaurants, sketches for magazines, small comix for club magazines and much more. He was fascinated by Hajme Sorayama's pinups, and although he had no artistic training, he tried to put something similar on paper. He drew pinups for the next ten years and was quite successful. There were vernissages and many exhibitions, the pictures were shown in magazines like (O), ArtCore and Bizzare, the Hamburger Morgenpost published a big article and the pictures were presented on RTL. While working on a book project with many artists from all over the world, he was invited to the big comic fair in Eindhoven/Netherlands. There he met comic book artist Sparq and told him about his idea to develop a western comic book about a family on the Oregon Trail. He was immediately enthusiastic. The two worked for eight years on the story "1850", of which parts 1 to 3 were published by TheNextArt.