the cartoonist
My pen name is Fritz. I live in San Francisco, California where I work as a sales manager at a fast growing sign company. In my spare time I like to create funny cartoons and illustrations for local businesses, family, friends and myself. I moved out to San Francisco in 1999 from Iowa where I grew up. I came out here to study illustration at the Academy of Art University. Overall my experiance at the Academy was good. I learned what I wanted to learn and I skipped the classes that I wanted to skip. All I wanted to do was to do a comic strip. So I worked hard at learning the types of things that would help me achieve that. A week from graduation the director of my program asked me at my portfolio review what I wanted to do with my degree. “I want to be a cartoonist.” I replied. “Good,” she said, “then you won’t need to know how to draw.” How nice of her to say that after I spent $80,000 on my education. My teacher only liked about two students in my class anyway so I didn’t take it to heart.
The last couple of years I have been developing a comic strip about employee’s at a small run down petting zoo called FencedINN. The idea came to me while I was walking to my History of Methology class. I was so excited about the idea, I turned around and walked home to start writing down my ideas. That class was a waste of my time anyway. I don’t remember how the idea came to me, but the street that I was walking on was not a good part of town so I hope that is not an omen.
Thank you for reading my comics. They are a lot of fun for me to make. There is a lot of joy in knowing that someone might smile or (hopefully) laugh at my jokes. Without this website my jokes would sitting under my bed. That is like a tree falling in a forest and no one being there to hear it. Ooooo that’s deep.
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