ABOUT JOHN

Before becoming a cartoonist, John Kovaleski had "done time" at an ad agency, a consulting firm, a newspaper and a big, faceless corporation.

His comic strip “Daddy Daze” began as an online comic strip detailing John’s real-life experience as a new dad. That version of the comic strip was actually one of many projects that he did while he was working on his Master of Fine Arts degree, teaching art and film at a college, and working as a freelance “humorous illustrator.” (In hindsight, perhaps he had a bit much on his plate.)

Before “Daddy Daze” John created the cult favorite “Bo Nanas,” a comic strip about a talking monkey in the real world. (It was collected in the books “Monkey Meets World“ and “ApPEEELing.”) Along the way he became a contributor to MAD magazine, illustrated credit sequences for motion pictures and created animated greeting cards for Amazon.com.

In his spare time he practices the ukulele and does the occasional escape-artist trick.

He is also taller than he is wide.