Welcome to my website! Hopefully you will find something to laugh at here, and after cruising around in the site you will feel like contacting me and letting me know what you liked and what you didn't. Or,what you liked and what you really liked!
March
23,1954
A day unlike any other day. In a hospital in Manhattan, a little boy is
born.There was no pencil in his hand, and no drumsticks either, but his
destiny was locked in from the beginning. The doctors and his parents
took one look at him and broke out laughing. "I like this",
said the boy........
Starting in elementary school, and all the way through high school, drawing pictures that made people laugh was the one thing that I could do with any consistency. The rest of my studies were average, but I loved to draw and to try to be funny. I often thought that stand-up comedy would be fun (it actually is mostly nerve-wracking) and that I could come up with great advertising campaigns.
When my drawing of Puss-n-Boots was used on the cover of a high school play program I was hooked.
Since then my career has been a steady trickle into the bucket of legitimacy as a cartoonist. Over the years I have been syndicated, had my cartoons on the covers of internationally released CDs, and been in papers and magazines from coast to coast, including Funny Times and the Sierra Club.
I live in Asheville, North Carolina, a beautiful little city in the Blue Ridge mountains about 200 miles north of Atlanta. I've been here 30 years and with the advent of the Internet and home PCs I probably will be able to stay here forever. Or until I can't afford to. Asheville has been discovered by the beautiful people and their developers, so we'll see how long the good times roll.
Oh yeah, my other life.....
I am a musician as well. A drummer,to be exact. I've been playing music since high school and sometimes consider it my primary reason for being on the planet. I've been playing percussion (congas and other hand percussion) mostly but in the last 5 years or so I've been playing kit. At the present I am a member of 2 bands (see Music) and I play and record in any number of free-lance situations.That's pretty much it. Please come back and visit the site often. I will try to have new cartoons on a regular basis, and if you are in the area you can check my music schedule and try to catch one of my gigs.
And of course, if you want to hire me as either a cartoonist or a drummer, PLEASE contact me.
Let's talk.
David
© 2004 David Cohen