Tim Kreider

Tim Kreider was born and educated in Baltimore. Fantagraphics Books has published two collections of his cartoons, The Pain--When Will It End? (2004) and Why Do They Kill Me? (2005), and he was included in Ted Rall's anthology Attitude 2: The New Subversive Alternative Cartoonists (2004). His weekly strip, The Pain--When Will It End?, began running in the Baltimore City Paper in 1995 and has also appeared in the Jackson Planet Weekly, The New York Press, The Stranger, and Philadelphia Weekly. His critical essays have appeared in Film Quarterly, The Comics Journal, Jump Cut, and Lip, and have been anthologized in Depth of Field: Stanley Kubrick, Film, and the Uses of History (University of Wisconsin Press), Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 162 (The Gale Group), Multicultural Film: A Reader (Pearson Custom Publishing), and The Education of a Cartoonist (Allworth Press). He has been stabbed in the throat on the island of Crete, ridden the circus train to Mexico City, and accompanied a friend having sex change surgery to Neenah, Wisconsin. He lives in an undisclosed location on the Chesapeake Bay.