Jonathan Rosenberg is the webcomic

Webcomic

Webcomics, online comics, or Internet comics are comics published on a website. While many are published exclusively on the web, others are also published in magazines, newspapers or often in self-published books....

 artist responsible for Goats

Goats (webcomic)

Goats is a popular webcomic written and illustrated by Jonathan Rosenberg. The webcomic started April 1, 1997. On April 3, 2006, after nine years drawing the strip, Rosenberg became a full-time cartoonist making his living drawing Goats...

, Scenes From A Multiverse, and megaGAMERZ 3133T. Rosenberg has been producing webcomics since 1997, making him one of the original webcomic artists.

Because he was living in Manhattan

Manhattan

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 at the time, Rosenberg's early work also tended to be set predominantly in this location. Later works branched off into real and imagined locations vastly disjointed from his previous comics.

Rosenberg graduated from Cornell University

Cornell University

Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

 in 1995 with a major in biology

Biology

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. Before working full-time as a webcomic artist, he also worked as a website design consultant. On January 19, 2003, Rosenberg married graphic designer

Graphic designer

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/printmaker and fellow Cornell alum Amy Melnikoff. In August 2006, the Rosenbergs moved from their Manhattan apartment to a house in Westchester County, New York.

Works

• Goats
  Goats (webcomic)
  Goats is a popular webcomic written and illustrated by Jonathan Rosenberg. The webcomic started April 1, 1997. On April 3, 2006, after nine years drawing the strip, Rosenberg became a full-time cartoonist making his living drawing Goats...
  
  
• Scenes From A Multiverse - This strip started on June 14, 2010, and is updated daily on weekdays. On Fridays, readers vote for which of the week's strips should be continued on the following Friday.
• megaGAMERZ 3133T - written under the name Diablo, who is a Satanic chicken and a character in Goats. The strip began in June 2005, and was discontinued in June 2006. The site currently loops through previous comics in linear sequence. It heavily parodies template-made gaming comics, in spite of not having much of a gaming focus.
• Team Force Alpha. Rosenberg's next project.
• Joke web sites, including Moon the White House, Moistnap, Brains 4 Zombies, and Stoolfairy.
• Sundry guest strips

Publications

• Goats: Showcase Showdown (The Infinite Pendergast Cycle) - May 2010. ISBN 0-34551-094-1.
• Goats: The Corndog Imperative (The Infinite Pendergast Cycle) - Dec 2009. ISBN 0-34551-093-3.
• Goats: Infinite Typewriters - Jun 2009. ISBN 0-34551-092-5.
• Tasty Yet Morally Ambiguous: Goats, Volume I & II - Dec 2003. ISBN 1-59151-011-2.
• Evil Chickens Don't Kiss: Goats, Volume III - Aug 2002. ISBN 1-59151-031-7.
• Behold The Power Of Ignorance: Goats, Volume IV - Nov 2001. ISBN 1-59151-041-4.

Appearances in other webcomics

Rosenberg has occasionally appeared as a character in other webcomics, particularly as Mr. Jon Rosenberg in Jeffrey Rowland's Overcompensating. That incarnation of Rosenberg's comic alter ego apparently has jewelry in his intestinal system, and was fake-killed by Dayfree Press

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External links

• Mr. Jon Rosenberg's Ice Cream Cavalcade and Boozatorium. Rosenberg's LiveJournal
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• An interview with Rosenberg published in the February 2006 issue of Comixpedia.
• Community interview with Rosenberg at Comixpedia
• Podcast interview with Rosenberg at TPN: The All American Podcast.
• Interview with Rosenberg at Fuzzy Blanket.
• Webcomics 101 class notes. Fleens write-up of a panel at the 2006 Comic Con International. Rosenberg was a panelist.
• Getting His Goat, an interview with Rosenberg at Wizard: The Comics Magazine
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• Zany, Random Yet Fuzzy 'Goats', a review of Goats by NPR
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