I’m Joel Watson. I live in a suburb of a suburb of Dallas, TX with my wife, daughter and two cats, Tivo and Replay. I’ve been professionally unemployed as an artist since 2008. I travel to a dozen or so comic conventions each year, and once I took a shot of maple bacon tequila out of a Cadbury Creme Egg. I called it a “Sadbury Egg.” It was delicious.

Joel is the artist and writer of Hijinks Ensue at http://hijinksensue.com/

Hijinks Ensue is a semi-autobiographical comic about a lifelong geek and aspiring artist who turns his back on an unfulfilling, but financially stable career in order to pursue art full time and set a better example for his daughter. It’s created by me, Joel Watson, and it currently updates Monday/Wednesday/Friday. I say “semi-autobiographical” because the core elements of the stories in HijiNKS ENSUE are true: I DID start a comic in order to show my newborn daughter that life was more about creating art and happiness and less about creating wealth (read more about that in “The Experiment”), and I DID get fired from my job for completely losing interest in it once my comic starting taking off, and most of the characters ARE based on and named after my family and friends, but most of the specifics are at least 50% fictional in order to make things more interesting.