DAVE KELLETT

Dave is a Southern-California native who grew up reading Bloom County, The Far Side, and Calvin & Hobbes. His early grade school cartoons were hailed by the lunch lady as "bold, innovative creations from a boy with his finger up his nose". Nominated for the Rhodes Scholarship by the University of Notre Dame, Dave went on to blow his 6-panelist interview by knowing absolutely nothing about tsarist Russia's military funding...a question he really rather wishes they hadn't asked. 

Instead, he took a far happier stroll through higher academia, earning two Masters degrees in the art and history of cartooning: First, at the University of California San Diego; and then, on a Rotary Foundation Scholarship, at the University of Kent, England at their Centre for Cartoon and Caricature Studies. He preferred the one in England, as the beer was better.

For 8 years, Dave worked as a writer and toy designer at Mattel Toys (briefly helping to run their blue-sky "Project Platypus" creativity project).  Now, Dave lives with his wonderfully talented wife Gloria in Los Angeles, creating Sheldon® for hip folks like yourself.