Doogie Horner is a writer, illustrator, and comedian. Raised in Pennsylvania, he studied design at Tyler School of Art and Architecture in Philadelphia, intending to write and illustrate books. He spent his early career designing book covers, working at Quirk Books for about ten years.

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 became briefly famous as a semi-finalist on America’s Got Talent. 

Despite his success in comedy, Doogie chose to stay with his job and continue performing on the side. In standup and art, he enjoys having an audience and sharing his work with people. “A different part of me engages when I know I’m making something people will see,” he says. 

Doogie is the author of The Adventures of Invisible Boy, This Might Hurt a Bit, Some Very Interesting Cats Perhaps You Weren’t Aware Of, A Die Hard Christmas, and many more 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 New York.

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

“Doogie Horner is truly a mad scientist of comics.”
–Chad Sell, author of the Cardboard Kingdom

You can contact me at doogiehorner@gmail.com I’m always happy to hear from readers!

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.