Liam de Frinse (b. Belfast, 1949) is a painter, installation artist, sculptor, performance poet and writer who drew comics in the mid-1970s. He grew up in Ardoyne, north Belfast, and took an apprenticeship as a spark (marine electrical) at Harland & Wolff shipyard in his teens, while going to art classes at the Belfast College of Art at night, sharpening up his drawing skills under the late John Luke, until he was made redundant about 1972. Encouraged by his late wife Marion to go to art college full time, he ended up going to Queen's University reading Celtic Studies, Social Anthropology and Political science, and after graduating became a lecturer. He continued to paint in his spare time, until he decided to go full time at the age of 40, leaving academia behind.