The Nymphs Rejected Album Cover
Back in the 90’s, I got to know the lead singer for The Nymphs. She was a comics fan and was inspired by my work.
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Well, walking through walls would be a great trick. Talk about shortcuts. But what if it took a lot of thinking and that thinking was interrupted? Well this would happen of course!
I was traveling in France last week (Paris and Annecy) promoting Underworld and SpongeBob so I didn’t have time to draw a new Underworld comic strip. I’ll be back next week with a brand new Underworld strip. So stay tuned and thanks for your time Creep Ratters!
Sometimes you just want to see what something looks like. I’ve had this comic strip in my sketchbook for a while in a different form (originally I had Creep Rat sliding on butter down a sidewalk with a sharp knife). But the butter knife made me laugh and then the gag came to me.
So I had a smoke alarm that would go off in the middle of the night. 1am, 3am, 5am. I’d have to go on a ladder to shut it off. Nothing wrong with the new battery – nothing I could find. I eventually pulled it off of the ceiling in sleepy frustration. Then I felt unsafe so I installed a new one. But it happened all over again. The house I live in in Hollywood was built in 1921 so I fantasized that a silent film clown ghost was fucking with me. That mad weirdly happy. That was the inspiration for this comic strip. Maybe Harry Langdon or Musty Suffer is taking a smoke alarm dump in my house in the night.
Back in the 90’s, I got to know the lead singer for The Nymphs. She was a comics fan and was inspired by my work.
Here’s a book jacket I designed for Mark Leyner’s 1990 book: My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist. It’s a collection of super short, postmodern absurd fiction. And
Order “The Underworld: From Hoboken to Hollywood” the omnibus collection of the very best of the strip’s 23-year run, with annotations, photos, and other surprises from the author (along with a foreword by Mutts creator Patrick McDonnell).
Kaz grew up a working class brat who loved cartoons, monsters, punk rock and fine arts. He studied cartooning at NYC’s School of Visual Arts under art spiegelman and Harvey Kurtzman. In 1991 he created the Harvey-nominated strip Underworld which continues to be published in alternative weekly papers across the United States. Since 2001 he has written for Spongebob Squarepants, Cartoon Network’s Camp Lazlo and Disney’s Phineas & Ferb.
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