Kyle Baker has what many might call a dream job. He gets paid to draw cartoon characters. And he's good at it. "Since I was a little kid, I used to read the funny papers with my grandfather," says Baker, who grew up in New York City. After high school, he enrolled in the School of Visual Arts in New York, but dropped out because he became too busy earning money with his art, including working for Marvel Comics
These days, Baker, 38, is an accomplished cartoonist, having written/illustrated several books including You Are Here, Why I Hate Saturn, The Cowboy Wally Show, I Die At Midnight, King David, Undercover Genie, and Cartoonist. His books gained him enough exposure to lead to freelance work for a variety of publications. "It was good because I got to work in my own style," Baker says of his graphic novels. "If you're just working on Bugs Bunny, nobody can really see what you can do."
Since then, his cartoons have appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, Esquire, Spin, Rolling Stone, Vibe, The Village Voice, Entertainment Weekly, ESPN, MAD, Us, Guitar World, Details, and National Lampoon. Baker has also dabbled in animation over the years; he sketched preliminary designs for Eddie Murphy's character, Donkey, in the animated feature Shrek. Baker, who estimates that he earned about $150,000 in 2003, also illustrated Birth of a Nation, a graphic novel due out this year, written by The Boondocks creator Aaron McGruder and writer/director Reginald Hudlin.
Now living in Woodstock, New York, Baker recently launched his own publishing company, Kyle Baker Publishing. Technology has lowered production costs so much, he says, that it's much easier for artists to publish their own material, distribute it, and retain the rights. "I reached a point in my career where I realized that if I hadn't sold away the 20 years of work I did. I would own thousands and thousands of cartoons," he said. "Now, when I'm old, I'll own thousands of Kyle Baker cartoons."
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