Matt Melvin
| Matt Melvin | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Matthew Melvin Schultzman November 26, 1984 San Diego, California |
| Residence |
Queens, New York Austin, Texas |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Cartoonist |
| Notable work | Cyanide & Happiness |
Matt Melvin is an American webcartoonist, known for his work as one of the original creators of Cyanide & Happiness.
Talking about his childhood, Melvin described himself as "a shy little kid [who] developed interest in various hobbies." Melvin started telling jokes and use humor in order to get over his shyness. At the age of 14, Melvin got a job at a community college computer lab, despite never having owned a computer himself and being two years below the legal working age. This was his first real access to the Internet, and an instructor taught him how to create a webpage on GeoCities, which he populated primarily with South Park animated GIFs.
Melvin never read many comics during his childhood, except for The Far Side by Gary Larson and Life in Hell by Matt Groening. Instead, he was a big fan of sketch comedy, and pointed at The Kids in the Hall, Monty Python, Upright Citizens Brigade, and Mr. Show with Bob and David as his comedic inspirations. Melvin has also been influenced by the stand-up comedy of Lewis Black, Mitch Hedberg, David Cross, Patton Oswalt, Demetri Martin, and Sarah Silverman.
In collaboration with Rob DenBleyker, Matt Melvin started creating "bad stick figure death movies" in 1999 or 2000, under the title StickSuicide. The two posted these videos on Newgrounds. In 2004, Melvin started to collaborate with Fort Bridger-based Kris Wilson, Dallas-based DenBleyker, and Belfast-based Dave McElfatrick to form Explosm, a group of international webcartoonists who create the Cyanide & Happiness webcomic. Generally, each page of Cyanide and Happiness is conceptualized and fully realized by one of the members, the four webcartoonists working primarily solo.
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