David DeMeo

David DeMeo was born and raised in suburban New Jersey, a fact that has only affected the way he pronounces the word "coffee".

He spent most of his childhood in Midland Park, where he told the children he was from another planet. By age 13, he had already fleshed out a fairly detailed plan for planetary conquest. This plan was cut short due to premature hair loss.

While David spent a lot of time scrawling drivel into composition notebooks as a child and young adult, it wasn't until his early 30's that he actually got published. He entered an online contest to submit story pitches to the incomparable Chad Sell for a children's book project called "the Cardboard Kingdom". Together with a beautiful assortment of strange and wonderful co-authors, they created a delightful graphic novel that will bring joy to children of all ages in June 2018.

David enjoys hats, especially if they have ears and faces on them. He designs jewelry and paints ugly portraits. He spends a majority of his time thinking about outer space. And wigs. He disagrees greatly with Karl Lagerfeld on the subject of sweatpants. Sweatpants are victory, Karl. Victory.

This is his first author bio and he wonders if anyone will actually read the whole thing, as it has become rather cumbersome. If an author bio falls in the woods and no one is around to read it, does it make a sound? Or at least leave an unsightly chemical burn on the forest floor, marring the environment irreparably and forcing the ecosystem to produce foul mutants that will one day subjugate mankind and rule the Earth?

He's not afraid of the big questions.