Carl D. Smith is in a state of arrested adolescence. He is the father of two amazing kids, a pharmacist, a MSTie, the coordinator of the charity Samaritan Finder - Council Bluffs, and a member of the "hopeless student loan slave" army. Carl is a proud Iowa native. Carl's time away from writing is spent listening to (the) Melvins. He prefers Famous Monsters to Wall Street Journal. His heroes include Sergio Aragones, Frank Zappa, Ray Bradbury, Andre Dawson, and Bobby "the Brain" Heenan.