Doogie Horner is a writer, illustrator, and comedian. Raised in Pennsylvania, he spent his early career designing book covers at Quirk Books, creating memorable covers for books like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.

While working at Quirk, Doogie entered the world of standup comedy. Where art requires long hours of isolation, Doogie found the immediate feedback of standup comedy exhilarating. After winning over a booing audience, he went on to become a semi-finalist on America’s Got Talent. 

Doogie is the author and illustrator of The Adventures of Invisible Boy graphic novel series, as well as Some Very Interesting Cats Perhaps You Weren’t Aware of, This Might Hurt a Bit, and many other books. He has two comedy albums, Dad Max and A Delicate Man, the latter of which was an AV Club staff pick. Doogie lives with his family in Western New York.

“Doogie Horner: America’s heart-warmer-in-chief?”
—Time magazine

“Dry and a little deadpan, with just enough salt and weirdness sprinkled in.”
—the AV Club

School and library visits: I enjoy teaching kids about the process of making comic books, and I’d be happy to visit your school! My multi-media presentation shows students how I write and draw a graphic novel, and demonstrates the five most important elements of visual storytelling—elements kids can use to create their own comics. For groups of any size, grades 3-6.

You can contact me at doogiehorner@gmail.com for more information or to just say hi.

Literary agent: Dan Lazar, dlazar@writershouse.com

If you’d like to know more about my work process, you can listen to this recent interview I did with the friendly folks at 3 Point Perspective.