Zach Weinersmith
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Zach Weiner with a sketch at San Diego Comic-Con, in 2011
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| Born |
Zachary Alexander Weiner March 5, 1982 |
| Residence | Texas |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Zachary Weinersmith |
| Occupation | Webcomic writer and illustrator |
| Known for | Writer/illustrator of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal |
| Spouse(s) | Kelly Weinersmith |
| Children | 2 |
| Website |
http://www.smbc-comics.com/ http://snowflakescomic.com/ http://smbc-theater.com/ http://www.theweinerworks.com/ |
Zachary Alexander Weinersmith (born Zachary Alexander Weiner; March 5, 1982) is an American cartoonist, who is best known for his webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (SMBC). He is the author of two other webcomics, the completed Captain Stupendous with artist Chris Jones, and Snowflakes, co-written by James Ashby and also illustrated by Chris Jones. He also founded the sketch comedy group SMBC Theater with James Ashby and Marty Weiner in 2009.
Weinersmith has been involved in writing and drawing comics since his high school years, but he first published on the internet in the late 1990s. His early comics usually had three or more panels, but after 2002, he switched to drawing predominantly one panel comics. He stated in a 2009 interview that he was glad to have decided to draw one panel comics because he felt three panel webcomics had become a webcomic cliche by that time, and that there were almost no decent one panel comics on the internet. More recently, he has drawn a mixture of single and multi panel comics for SMBC.
Weinersmith's webcomic was recognized in 2006, and 2007 with the Web Cartoonists' Choice Award for Outstanding Single Panel Comic, and received nominations in 2003, and 2008.
He also cohosts the science podcast "The Weekly Weinersmith" along with his wife Kelly, a parasitologist, the first episode of which was released on October 5, 2011. As of October 2013 the podcast is on hiatus.
Weiner's first degree was in literature from Pitzer College, where he graduated in 2003. With the success of his web strip, Weiner decided to go back to university to study science at San Jose State, in order to satisfy his personal interests while also creating topics and creative ideas for his comics; initially planning on biochemistry, he opted to pursue physics.
Weiner's great-grandfather emigrated to the United States in 1925, and much of his extended family was killed in the Holocaust. Weiner is married to Dr. Kelly Weinersmith. They have a daughter, Ada Marie Weinersmith, who was born on March 14, 2014, and a son who was born on October 29, 2016.
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