At age five, O'Connor was a part of the choir at the school where his mother worked. Over the years, he grew up listening to Queen, ABBA, Green Day, and Weezer, but more classical soulful artists, like Stevie Wonder also inspired him. He is a drummer, self-taught pianist, and he picked up the guitar when he was 16.
Daniel Clowes was born in Chicago, IL, on April 14, 1961. He attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, from which he graduated with a BFA degree in 1984. He began his career as an “alternative” cartoonist in 1985 with the short-lived comic book series Lloyd Llewellyn, a feature loosely based around the adventures of a private detective which, in its gleeful embrace of the detritus of post-war pop culture.
