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- Kevin Brockschmidt
- 18601 - 126th Place S.E.
- Renton, WA 98058-7951
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- (425) 226-6617
- E-mail: kevtoons@wolfenet.com
- Web Site: http://www.wolfenet.com/~kevtoons/
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- 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.
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- 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...
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- Sorry -- reality got a bit fuzzy there for a minute.
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- 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!
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- 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).
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- 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.
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