Kris Straub
cartoonist
Kristofer "Kris" Straub (born January 17, 1979) is an American animator, web cartoonist, podcaster, and writer. His key web comic projects include Checkerboard Nightmare, Starslip, Chainsawsuit, Broodhollow, and F Chords. Other notable projects include the creepypasta "Candle Cove" as well as collaborations with Scott Kurtz (Blamimations), Paul Verhoeven (28 Plays Later), and Penny Arcade (Strip Search, Kris and Scott's Scott and Kris Show, Acquisitions Incorporated: The C-Team).
He has written and produced the YouTube analog horror series Local 58 since October 26, 2015. He also works with Penny Arcade in graphic design, as well as co-hosting the PAX gaming conventions and appearing in their collaborations with Wizards of the Coast and Chaosium, Inc.
Career
Straub graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with a degree in computer science.
Web cartoonist
Straub launched his first comic, Checkerboard Nightmare, online in 2000. The strip was self-aware and used metahumour to follow the main character Chex's obsession with gaining fame as a webcomic character.
In 2005, Straub began creating Starslip Crisis (eventually shortened to Starslip), a daily science fiction/comedy webcomic. Starslip was first set in the 3440s and followed the crew of starship-museum IDS Fuseli, named after painter Henry Fuseli, which largely featured 20th and 21st century art.
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