Gabe Crate is a professional cartoonist, writer, and storyboard artist currently living and working in Santa Monica, California

Santa Monica, California

Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, US. Situated on Santa Monica Bay, it is surrounded on three sides by the city of Los Angeles — Pacific Palisades on the northwest, Brentwood on the north, West Los Angeles on the northeast, Mar Vista on the east, and...

. He is most known for his work on the print comic version of The Tick

The Tick

The Tick is a fictional character created by cartoonist Ben Edlund in 1986 as a newsletter mascot for the New England Comics chain of Boston area comic stores. He is an absurdist spoof of comic book superheroes. After its creation, the character spun off into an independent comic book series in...

during the late 1990s and for his participation in several Boston-based punk rock bands during the same period, most notably, A Global Threat

A Global Threat

A Global Threat was an American street punk band, formed in Bangor, ME in 1997. They released four full-length LPs as well as many 7" EPs and have toured extensively throughout the United States.- History 1997–2000 :...

. After parting ways with both The Tick and A Global Threat in 2001 and relocating to the west coast, Gabe pursued a career as an independent cartoonist and musician. In late 2004, Gabe established the independent comic publishing press Flophouse Comics, which saw its first releases in Spring, 2005.

External links

• Official site
• Gabe Crate's live journal