Adams' two older brothers, Jason and Joel, are also artists who work in commercial sculpture and comic book illustration, respectively.

[3] His production art credits for the Syfy Channel, include Battlestar Galactica, Stargate SG-1, Eureka, and Ghost Hunters.

Adams comics work includes the miniseries SPIT[1] and the creator-owned project STRAIN.

[1] In 2022, Adams was a co-winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary for his art direction of the comics journalism story, "How I Escaped a Chinese Internment Camp," published by Insider.

He proposed to her in August 2013, presenting to her a ring that he had designed himself, embedded with the face of Jake the Dog from the animated TV series Adventure Time.