Ken Larson is 30-something, from Chapel Hill, NC, but lives in southern Germany with his Frau. His weekly cartoon has been appearing since 1997 in a number of weekly and monthly publications around the country. He began drawing cartoons in 6th grade and was discouraged by concerned teachers throughout his academic career, being told that they were too politically incorrect for the school paper (hey, you don't have to get too extreme to get disqualified from a junior-high school paper), and to apply his talents towards more serious art endeavors.

He studied briefly under the late Bill Lemmer, at the time an editorial cartoonist for ABC Nightline. Lessons consisted of about half cartooning and half Vietnam commando tactics, both of which served him well through his teen years. With friends in high school, he ran a cartoon- and other nonsense-filled 'zine (the "Subterranean"), which was grudgingly permitted by the headmaster to be distributed. The $30 net profits were tragically stolen in 1987. This, along with having better things to do at the age of 17, ground the enterprise to a halt.

Ken studied Computer Science at Haverford College and the University of Michigan and did not draw anything then. Computers are not funny. For example, Ken's working on a cartoon where Osama installs Linux, and it is the stupidist goddamn cartoon you've ever seen. Maybe if Gates and Bush were getting it on in the background it would salvage it, but doubtful. Anyway, after studying, then a bunch of bad things happened, pain, tragedy, divorce, blah blah blah, you know, life. But in 1997 the resulting pressure burst forth, manifesting itself in the weekly quest to fulfill his adolescent dream - to get that frickin' $30 back.

So for about 4 years, Ken's cartoon was running in a few weeklies and monthlies, including the Pittsburgh City Paper, Funny Times, The Berkeley Monthly, Snicker, among others. The pinnacle of this was going to a conference where a bunch of his idol cartoonists were, including pillars of the liberal establishment, going to a strip club with them, and watching them get lap dances.

In 2002, Ken moved to Germany. Now, there are a lot of funny things about Germany, like the way Arnold Schwarzeneggar says "the constitution" in English sounds like "you can take a shower there" in German. But Ken plugged his scanner into a european plug of the wrong voltage, and once again, he went from drawing cartoons to not drawing them at all. In 2004, Ken resurrected the web site and went from drawing the strip weekly to drawing it whenever he felt like, which so far, has also been not at all. But stay tuned...

Finally in late 2004 he had the overwhelming desire to write about himself in the third person, which brings us to where we are now.

Now, just to make sure you are on the right site, there are in fact a number of Ken Larsons out there that are much funnier:

http://www.kenlarson.net/code/andrea2.htm Daddy tells me that soon I will be going to at new place to live. It's called Heaven. It's a real nice place. I won't have trouble breathing there. I'll never be hungry or tired again. There are fields that go on forever where I can run and chase squirrels. He says I'll be able to catch the squirrels there too because it's where the bad squirrels go when they die.

http://www.kenlarson.com/ We pride ourselves on staying on the cutting edge of dentistry and patient communication.

http://kencan.personalchoice.org/ Founder of several churches, including the Same Sex Church, the Church of the Holy Nudity, the Church of the Goddess of Chance, the Tobacco God, the Beer God, the Sex Goddess and the Church of the Hemp Goddess