Kelly Jarvis

Kelley Jarvis is a professional self-taught illustrator, animator and cartoonist. She was born in 1968 in Danbury, Connecticut. Inspired by the likes of animators Chuck Jones, Hanna-Barbera, and Walt Disney's Nine Old Men, she picked up drawing funny animals and fantasy creatures at an early age. Two issues of her comics creation 'Samurai Squirrel' were published by Spotlight Comics in 1986. She began writing and drawing the syndicated 'Tom & Jerry' newspaper strip for Editors Press Service when she was only 18 years old, and continued it for six years (1990-1996)…Comiclopedia