He has left more than 3000 anime-inspired paintings in public spaces for passers-by to take for free if they "promise to smile at random people more often."

As a child, he watched the Giant Robot television shows Voltes V and Mazinger which later inspired his art.

He received a BA in design at UCLA and an MA in computer animation at the Ohio State University.

[5][6] In 2021, Bataclan's book, Fe: A Traumatized Son’s Graphic Memoir, was published by Philippine American Writers and Artists, Inc (PAWA, Inc.).

They filed for a marriage license on the day same sex-marriage in Massachusetts was legally recognized and were married at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church in 2004.