Dave Sim

David Victor Sim (born May 17, 1956 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian comic book writer and artist, best known as the creator of the 6,000 page graphic novel Cerebus the Aardvark. Dave Sim was born in Hamilton and moved to Kitchener, Ontario with his family when he was two. His father Ken–a native of Glasgow, Scotland–was a factory supervisor at Budd Automotive and his mother an elementary school secretary. He has an older sister named Sheila. He was interested in comics from an early age and dropped out of high school to pursue a career in the field. The only job he ever held outside of the comic field was working as an employee at Now and Then Books. "It was the first and only place in Kitchener that I ever felt truly comfortable before or since", Sim has said. In the 1970s he published a fanzine called The Now and Then Times (financed by Harry Kremer, the owner of the comic book store after which the newsletter was named) and did work for such other fanzines as John Balge's... full article at wikipedia