Roy Schneider has been a professional cartoonist since 1992. His work has been published in magazines, greeting cards, card games and other media, but his goal from the start has been to have a syndicated daily comic strip; probably the result of learning to read from stacks of Peanuts and Dennis the Menace paperbacks as a very young child. In addition to Charles Schulz and Hank Ketcham, his earliest influences include MAD magazine's Sergio Aragones and Don Martin, classic animation from Warner Brothers and MGM (director Tex Avery, in particular), later studying the work of such underground artists as Gilbert Shelton and Robert Crumb, and becoming an avid Monty Python fan. He was eventually lured back to the newspaper comics pages when Bill Watterson's "Calvin and Hobbes" caught his attention quite profoundly in the late 1980s. In addition to cartooning, Roy is a professional musician and enjoys music festivals, camping, cooking, travel and getting horrendously dirty and sweaty out in the yard. He lives in Florida with his sweetheart and their two children.