BIOGRAPHY:

"...the way he weaves humour, social commentary, and character development through rapid-fire dialogue is similarly delightful and definitely should not be overlooked."
The Comics Journal #219

Kyle Baker (1965- ) was born in New York, USA and studied at The School Of Visual Arts. To pay for his art school education he worked at Marvel comics, until he figured that "you're going to art school to learn a trade, but I was already working at a trade, so I may as well save myself the money." But his first career in comics was not a good experience for Kyle. " I figured if I was going to get pushed around and not own my own work, I may as well go to Hollywood, get pushed around, not own my own work, and get paid six times as much." And so, in the early 1990's, Kyle left New York and headed for Los Angeles to write screenplays for rest of the decade.

However the desire to create comics remained with Kyle and finally in 1999 he returned to comics with his urban romantic comedy You Are Here. "... I enjoy doing the comic books, and at least you now get to own it. That's the big thing for me, is owning the work... But, just generally, comics, I do 'em because I enjoy 'em - I enjoy doing the work - and because I usually own it. Like I say, I'm planning in 20 years from now to retire with 20 books on the shelves that will stay in print, and that I'll own."

He has recently set up Kyle Baker Publishing with his wife, Liz, and their first publication, Kyle Baker Cartoonist, was released in 2004, and it contains some of the funniest cartoons on parenting and kids that you'll ever read.

In addition to his comic work, Kyle Baker cartoons have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vibe, Esquire and many other magazines, newspapers and books. His work in animation has appeared on MTV and he contributed to the Shrek and Looney Tunes movies.

Interviews:
Wizard (2006)
You Tube (2006)
The Pulse (2005)
Pop Image (2005)
The Comics Reporter (2005)
Comic World News (2004)
Silver Bullet Comic Books (2003)
The Comics Journal #219 (2000)
Jitter Bug (1999)

Resources:
Kyle Baker.com
The Bakers Blogspot
Paul Gravett: Kyle Baker Profile

Reviews:
The Fourth Rail: Nat Turner
iComics: I Die At Midnight

Why I Hate Saturn
DC/Vertigo, 1990
Anne is a twenty-something writer living in New York, barely holding her life together, recklessly tossed about on the sea of fate, cut loose by a series of coincidences and plot points well beyond her control, used and abused by crazed ex-boyfriends, sisters, and editors.

"...the rapid fire dialogue still crackles with life while Baker's hyper-expressive visuals still make this one of the most approachable graphic novels of the past decade."
Top 100 Comics, The Comics Journal #210

"Young and vibrant in New York, like Kyle himself"
Eddie Campbell

You Are Here
DC/Vertigo, 1999
You Are Here is an urban romantic comedy about what happens when things we hide come back to haunt us. Noel Coleman's got it made. He has a successful career, a house in the country and a wonderful girl friend. He's also been lying like crazy about his secret past. Until now. Within a day of returning to New York City to sell his apartment, Noel's being chased by the cops and stalked by a serial killer. To top it off, his unsuspecting fiancee has followed him to the city. Will she finally find out the truth.

The Cowboy Wally Show
DC/Vertigo, 1988
"It's really very, very funny. And very clever. And very good… Cowboy Wally is everything you hate about American TV. He's fat. He's stupid. He drinks too much beer. He ruins people's lives with aplomb and obliviousness… Kyle Baker mercilessly excoriates TV and the unctuous, meaningless people who are famous for something they never quite did a long time ago."
Neil Gaiman

King David
DC/Vertigo, 2002
Violence! Intrigue! Polygamy! Mass Circumcision! All this and more in Kyle Baker's irreverent - yet biblically accurate - epic retelling of a majestic tale of a little sheep-herding squirt who would one day lead the mighty forces of Israel!

Graphic Novels:
Birth Of A Nation (2004) with Aaron McGruder & Reginald Hudlin
Kyle Baker Cartoonist Vol 1-2 (2004)
Plastic Man Vol 1 (2004)
Truth: Red, White & Black (2004) with Robert Morales
Undercover Genie (2003)
King David (2002)
I Die At Midnight (2000)
You Are Here (1999)
Why I Hate Saturn (1990)
Through The Looking Glass (1990) with Lewis Carroll
The Cowboy Wally Show (1988)

Periodicals:
Plastic Man #1-6, 8 onwards (2004)
Justice Inc #1-2 (1989) with Andrew Helfer
The Shadow #7-18 (1987-1988) with Andrew Helfer