20 Facts About James Kochalka

James Kochalka's comics are noted for their blending of the real and the surreal.

James Kochalka attended the Maryland Institute College of Art and has an MFA in painting.

James Kochalka's "Craft Is the Enemy" essays were collected in the 2005 book The Cute Manifesto.

James Kochalka spent six years working in a Chinese restaurant in Winooski, Vermont, before leaving to devote his full energy to cartooning and music.

James Kochalka reminds me of me when I was six years old and I came into my mother's kitchen with a bunch of sheets of typing paper folded over and stapled in the middle that were covered with drawings and I said 'Mom this is what I'm going to do for the rest of my life.

James Kochalka told an interviewer in 2002 that he had created 2,000 pages of comics by the time he completed high school.

James Kochalka's comics have earned him four Ignatz Awards, a Harvey Award, and multiple nominations for the Eisner Award.

James Kochalka's work is characterized by a simple drawing style, bright colors, and frequent appearances by cats, robots, elves, and monkeys.

In 2002, James Kochalka said that all 5,000 copies of the first printing of the Monkey vs Robot graphic novel had sold out.

James Kochalka created the comic Impy And Wormer, which appeared in Nickelodeon Magazine.

In July 2012 James Kochalka won the Eisner Award for his book Dragon Puncher 2: Dragon Puncher Island.

James Kochalka has published numerous short stories in comics anthologies, self-published his own mini-comics, and published graphic novels through other publishers such as Black Eye, Slave Labor Graphics and Highwater Books.

James Kochalka makes the SpongeFunnies in the SpongeBob Comics series of comics.

James Kochalka told The Onion that he wrote the first diary entry while traveling by plane to the San Diego Comic-Con.

James Kochalka created diary strips during the week of the convention, and committed to doing a diary strip every day.

Additionally, James Kochalka published a tribute entry to his cat, Spandy, after her death in February 2014.

James Kochalka reported on his blog that the site had received around 200,000 hits as a result of the change.

James Kochalka is part of the "Little Idiot Collective," a group of artists assembled by the musician Moby.

Virtually all of James Kochalka's CDs come packaged with his cartoons in the accompanying pamphlets, in some cases using the pamphlet as a full-length mini-comic.

The song "Hockey Monkey", which James Kochalka co-authored with The Zambonis, was used as theme song of the Fox comedy, The Loop.