Kick in the Head

I was born in Boston, Massachusetts (well, not actually IN Boston, but if I mentioned my hometown most of you would just blink your eyes at which point I’d just say it’s near Boston anyway) and went to NYU majoring in film after one year majoring in photography. I’m currently working as a video editor.

I don’t have a very artistic background, but in first grade I started drawing comics using crude renditions of the Japanese character Doreamon, and Hobbes from Calvin & Hobbes. After that I started drawing Quincy from Fox Trot and then kind of derived a character from that which I called Yoshi because I also drew Yoshi from Super Mario World. One thing I took from that artistically is that Quincy’s nose has become the head of the generic smiling character in my comic (except the nostrils are now the eyes).

In college I took a class called “New York Humor” which gave me the opportunity to do some stand-up comedy because my professor knew someone at a comedy club, and each class had a night reserved for members of her class to perform. So myself and about a third of the class performed that one night. I went on to do perform two or three times after that. I think that I’d like to return to doing some stand-up comedy some day so this is my way of storing up material. I think most of the things I put into my comic could be much funnier in a stand-up comedy format.