'''Michael John Straub''' (1970-2004) was an artist and printmaker. He studied at University_at_Buffalo,_The_State_University_of_New_York. Originally from Clifton_Park,_New_York_and_Amherst,_New_Hampshire. Straub, John Straub, John Straub, John {{US-artist-stub}} Michael Straub created thousands of unique paintings and tens of thousands of prints using a variety of techniques including abstract and pop art, which he showed at various art museums and galleries in the upstate New York area, as well as several art festivals each year including Buffalo's Allentown and Elmwood art festivals. Buffalo's bookstores, coffee shops, restaurants, and streets are still filled with his murals, sketches, and graffiti. Straub was also an avid skateboarder, photographer, musician, and poet. Lived in San Diego, California the last year and a half of his life where he died of heart failure brought on by an asthma attack in February of 2004.