The library was next to the town’s two jail cells in the damp basement of our tiny brick police station. If it was up to me, I would have avoided the entire building for the duration of my childhood, but my father was a children’s book author and my mother was in school for library science. And besides, that was where we went to buy our pool tags to go swimming in the summer.

This Comics Beat original webcomic tells the story of Daniel McCloskey, failing English tests in elementary school, middle school, and college, before tumbling into bad luck and becoming a professionally published writer and illustrator.

Daniel McCloskey's punk action comic "Made Monsters" hit #1 Most Downloaded Short Free Comics and Graphic Novels on amazon! Praise For McCloskey’s comic series: “Crazy stuff... Like manga morphing into art comics” Charle ". . . an expressive drawing style that ranges from straightforward if edgy to . . . forays into horror and the surreal." Bill O’Driscoll- Pittsburgh City Paper