Cartoonist

Cartoonist

	Birth town: Hartford, Connecticut, USA Hometown: Cheshire, Connecticut, USA Current town: Cos Cob, Connecticut, USA
Ages 2-10	Early on, I claimed I wanted to be an astronaut, but then at age six I got into fake heroes when I discovered Superman the Movie and Super Friends. The critical moment: at seven I copied a picture of Scooby-Doo from the TV Guide. Sadly, that drawing is lost to time. Soon I had created my own universes, one full of superheroes and the other clearly styled after the Hanna-Barbera menagerie. Sadly, all of that is also lost to time.
Ages 11-17	My cartoon toucan (hello Froot Loops) won my elementary school’s mascot contest; he was retired in the mid-1990s. First “hit”: a drawing in the Cheshire High School student newspaper (also first disgrace: they misspelled my name). Then came a drawing in the New Haven Register and an “editorial” cartoon in the Cheshire Herald (the pool was never built).
Ages 18-21	At Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, I did cartoons for the humor magazine, Gravity. Its masthead shows I was the Graphics Editor, though I made not one decision in that capacity. First sale: “perpetual but non-exclusive rights” of a cartoon to Comics Buyer’s Guide. I got a few $5 checks over the years for it. Sadly, that money is lost to time.
Ages 22-25	Cartooning hiatus: wrote three screenplays, worked in marketing at two book publishers (in New York and Santa Monica), began publishing children’s books. (This has since led to other writing jobs in magazines and television.) I didn't think I would get back into cartooning; in fact, I was telling friends that I couldn’t draw anymore. Then I changed my mind.
Age 26 on	On March 29, 1998 I drew the first cartoon of my “professional” life. On September 19, 1998 I began submitting to magazines. On January 21, 1999 I sold my first (well, second) cartoon. This site launched on November 3, 1999. The rest, as they say, is at Clients.

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