Tom Van Deusen studied art at the University at Buffalo. After graduating in 2008, he helped found the arts group Sugar City and lived above their Wadsworth location for a while. He has since helped start the quarterly comics tabloid Intruder, and some of his own titles include Eat Eat Eat, A Matter of Life and Death, and Scorched Earth. You can see some of his other work and purchase his comics at mynameistvd.com.