Stacy Curtis

Stacy Curtis (born 1971) is an American cartoonist, illustrator and printmaker, who also served as the inker of Richard Thompson's comic strip ''Cul de Sac'' in 2012.

Curtis and his twin brother Tracy grew up in Bowling Green, Kentucky, where the young Stacy dreamed of working on a comic strip. He recalled, "As a kid, I would read the comics in the newspaper every single day. In elementary school, I drew Snoopy, Garfield, Popeye and other comic strip characters on classmates' folders for money." During his senior year in high school, Curtis began drawing editorial cartoons for the school newspaper and soon moved on to do editorial cartoons for Bowling Green's ''Daily News'' during his first year studying graphic design at Western Kentucky University.

At the same time, he started doing illustrations for Western Kentucky University's student newspaper, the ''College Heights Herald'', and he continued to draw editorial cartoons for both papers while staying in college for the next six years:

I actually stayed on at the University for longer. Like I could have graduated in four years, but I stayed on longer, two more years, so I could continue being the cartoonist there. I was in college for like seven years. It was kind of like it is now; there's no jobs. I said, hey, I was getting paid as the editorial cartoonist at the paper, so I'm like, this is kind of my job. I just took the bare minimum classes that I had to each semester, so I could work at the paper.

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