David Gilbert was born and raised in Syracuse, New York. Growing up, he was fascinated by Disney animation, and comic strips like 'Heathcliff', 'The Family Circus' and 'Calvin & Hobbes'. While attending college, David wrote and drew a weekly comic strip for the Syracuse Herald-Journal, then got a job at a local animation company called Animotion, where he worked as an assistant animator. In 1994 he created his comic about the naïve dog 'Buckles', which is distributed by King Features since 1996 to about 100 newspapers.
