I moved to suburban Kansas City after K-State, with my wife (girlfriend at the time), Stacey. Still here. Just moved into a new house last December (we moved between Christmas and New Year's, which was undeniably stupid, but we got away with it). Two kids, Lexi and Tanner.
I spent several years as a mercenary-for-hire, traveling the Cambodian jungles in search of renegade CIA agents who'd gotten itchy and disappeared with government bought bricks of heroin originally intended to be sold to raise money for Nicauraguan Contras. Took a few bullets, killed a few rebels. Married a Korean girl names Soo Young under a waterfall in Nairobi, but she turned out to be an undercover agent for the British SAS, and was killed in a firefight at Heathrow Airport by guerillas dressed as nuns. The usual.
When that proved lacking in excitement, I decided to enter the high-paid, thrilling world of plastics sales, in Olathe, Kansas. From there I launched a glamorous career in food sales, with a pit-stop in printer repair sales.
In 2002 I published a three-part comic book series called HAWAIIAN DICK (www.hawaiiandick.com), which was pretty successful and was eventually optioned by New Line Cinema to make a movie from. At the moment they're looking at directors or something. The screenplay is done. Since then I've written a few more things, and have many more things on my plate.
In 2004, I went to work full-time for Image Comics as their PR & Marketing director, and in early 2005 I left that job to concentrate on writing full-time.
But every now and then, on quiet, moonlight nights, I can still hear the jungle calling me from so far away...
-Clay