About the Artist and the Cartoon

ABOUT THE CREATOR OF THE CARTOON

Mein namen ist Cory Benjamin Geishauser, and I’ve shortened it to Corben Geis, just for kicks and because of writer’s cramp. I am a huge fan of art and history, but not ‘art history’. I mean, besides ‘the flying buttresses’, there’s really nothing funny about art history. (OK, Sister Wendy does kinda remind me of Austin Powers in a habit….note to self…work on the funny there.)Google Images of Sr. Wendy, and you'll understand.

I attended the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, where I worked my internship with my boyhood hero, the late and great, Mr. Fred Rogers. Besides being an activities director for a personal care home, I have been teaching an after school arts program I developed called “The Art Funshops”. I had a great experience a few years back to instruct art at Camp Crayola, for Binney and Smith’s 100th Anniversary Celebration.

I draw caricatures on the side, actually on my rump and I have been a walking cartoon for the past 10 years for The Pittsburgh Pirates Minor League Baseball Team, THE ALTOONA CURVE. I’m the sports mascot STEAMER (check my website out for photos ) www.corbengeis.com

ABOUT THE CARTOON 'HISTORY BLUFFS'
To bluff a bit on General MacArthur's famous last words, "I HAVE RETURNED!" I previously had my strip History Bluffs here before and I got a lot of great feedback and hilarious critiques. One of my favorites was, "I never knew much about American History, and now I really don't".

I recently put my new website online, and had a handful of people write to me and ask,"Where the Bluff Bluff are the Bluffs!" Folks actually read them at Sherpa and demanded I bring them back, for their weekly (weakly) dose. One of the coolest compliments I got from another reader, and I actually cut it out and stuck in on my fridge, was "THE FAR SIDE IS TO SCIENCE AS HISTORY BLUFFS IS TO.... HISTORY". Thanks, mom.

I've always wanted to be a WRITER, AN ILLUSTRATOR, A DIRECTOR, AN ACTOR & A COMEDIAN, and I can be all of those by being a CARTOONIST.

To quote and quirk the late Captain James Lawrence, "Don't give up the STRIP!"