Kevin Brockschmidt
18601 - 126th Place S.E.
Renton, WA 98058-7951

(425) 226-6617
E-mail: kevtoons@wolfenet.com
Web Site: http://www.wolfenet.com/~kevtoons/


My education background is somewhat odd for a cartoonist. I originally intended to be an astronaut and 
prepared to enter the Air Force Academy.  However, an eyesight test nixed me from any possibility of 
flying in the military, so I did the next best thing and went to Commercial Aviation school (my eyesight 
was good enough for civilian flying).  Upon graduating with a Commercial/Instrument Pilot's License, the 
bottom fell out of the aviation market.  So, I tried out the Art Institute of Seattle. Finding that not quite to 
my liking, I went back to  college to study Mechanical Engineering.  At Washington State University I 
met calculus and we didn't get along very well, so I transferred into Graphic Design, a fine relationship 
that culminated in a full-fledged Bachelor's Degree.

I'd been doing artwork for as long as I could remember and had always been doing freelance work as a 
part-time hobby, creating t-shirts, posters, yearbook  illustrations, newspaper cartoons, and ill-fated comic 
book projects.  After (finally) graduating from college I went to work for a small newspaper as an 
advertising designer and editorial cartoonist.  Dduring that year and a half I had increasing success with 
my freelance work so, after saving up some money, I quit my job and took the plunge into the illustration 
world.  I barely avoided drowning (to continue with the metaphor), scraping bottom, and eventually 
struggling back to the surface.  Sure, I've swallowed water a few times and started to sink a few times, but 
I've managed to keep swimming through the shark-infested waters as the dark waves rose and fell all 
around me, the wind howling in my ears, the...

Sorry -- reality got a bit fuzzy there for a minute.

Anyway, I now have the pleasure of working full-time as a Freelance Humorous Illustrator out of my 
basement studio (I love the comute!).  My clients include magazines, book publishers, greeting card 
companies, t-shirt manufacturers, etc., as well as a certain very large video game company; in other 
words, anyone who'll hire me!  

I work in many different genres but my most pleasurable work has been in the science fiction and fantasy 
field, and it's in that area that I get the most feedback on my art (a big "thank you" to everyone on the 
convention circuit; you give me the much-needed enthusiasm to keep cranking it out).

I currently lay low in Renton, Washington, with my ever-lovin' blue-eyed wife, Tami, and my newest 
reason to keep working hard: our baby daughter, Sarah Joy.