Tom Vogel was born in Offenburg, Germany in 1969 and moved to Australia with his parents in 1978.

Cartoons that have been published by Tom include the cartoon strip “MyWeek” which ran for two years in Leader Newspapers, the cartoon strip “Le Salon”, "Pigs" which ran in the The District Reporter in Sydney and various one panel cartoons for Die Woche .

Tom Vogel has contributed his work to such charity foundations as Odyssey House, Children of Chernobyll and the exhibition "Drawing on Human Rights" for Amnesty International.

His current project is a five minute animation project entitled "Jumping Kangaroos". This animation is based on one of the songs that was distributed on an audio tape with a children’s colouring book,
which was also illustrated by Tom.