Thomas Clemmons is the creator of Robot Friday. For as long as he can remember he has wanted to make a living by drawing and making people laugh, but in the early years of his career (the first decade to be more exact) he put off this dream in order to enter the printing industry where the real money’s at – we’re talking BIG bucks here. After more than ten years of slavish work designing high profile pieces such as “Randall Community Luncheon: $2.00 for kids, $5.00 for adults” and “Washing your hands is good hygiene” Thomas decided to revisit his dream.

Now almost 40 and pretty much broke (the promises of “$30,000 a year starting pay” spewed forth by many of his college professors turned out to be a hemp and shroom cocktail induced fallacy) Thomas turned his long festering, nay, SEETHING cynicism outward onto the world around him. With Ramen in his belly and a few bits of scrap paper and a lump of coal to draw with Robot Friday was born. Scanned into the computer by sheer force of will and inked in Adobe Illustrator (yeah, I buy software before real food – that’s just how I roll – bitches) the comic is available three times a week, M-W-F.

Before this career as a cartoonist and man fat model, Thomas filled an entire decade (yeah, talk about convoluted punishment) as an ink mixer for screen printing shops creating t-shirts for many brands, including Massimo. He also dabbled in the print design industry creating everything from promotional product advertising, posters, and book design to custom illustration. Currently he finds himself somehow employed full time in the television broadcasting industry behind the scenes helping to create televisions shows and programming local to his region. Because Thomas is so awesome and clearly wants to cut himself for the pain but lacks the balls to do it, when he isn’t at the t.v. station he continues to create print design material on a freelance basis.

Robot Friday began in May of 2009 and is currently just over 100 strips strong. When not drawing, designing or getting paid to watch t.v., Thomas also enjoys a casual game of World of Warcraft where you can find him playing any one of his six level 70+ characters (yeah, I said SIX – I should have more, but I play the game casually). He can also be found playing Xbox 360, gamer tag Dandystan, or passed out in front of his computer with Hulu Desktop running and the smell of urine, soiled fat man and illegal Taquela in the air.

Thank you all for your support and readership and stick around because, I hope, the games have just begun and it’s gonna be a f*cked up ride baby!

Twitter: Thomas514