Background
After two years of what Diller called the "good life," he rejoined society after his mother offered to help him acquire a scholarship to the Art Institute of Pittsburgh.
After two years of what Diller called the "good life," he rejoined society after his mother offered to help him acquire a scholarship to the Art Institute of Pittsburgh.
In 2011, cartoons from his strip Funday Morning were turned into the coffee-table book The Neighbors Have Two Flamingos. Born in Charleston, West Virginia, Brad Diller is the second of four kids. After his family moved to Dallas, Texas for a brief stint while Brad was in junior high school, Diller moved back to Charleston to finish high school, or at least something equivalent.
After earning his General Educational Development, Brad moved to Houston, Texas to pursue a career in carpet laying.
In 1976, federal up with Texas and upholstery, Diller moved into a flophouse in Daytona Beach, Florida. Graduating with his associate degree in 1980, Diller took a job in advertising.
After leaving his advertising job, Diller moved immediately into bar tending full-time, which is where he was surrounded in the subject matter that would influence a number of his future comic strips. On his 33rd birthday, Diller was hired to be a newsroom artist by The Daily Mail (1998–2000).
Diller’s first cartoons ran in 1992 when he pitched his cartoons to the editor at The Daily Mail.
After creating 12 rough sketches for a weekly slot, Diller got the editor’s approval to begin running a weekly cartoon. While producing his weekly single-panel cartoon, Diller began pursuing syndication. His cartoons were soon featured in dozens of papers across the country, and despite his high approval rating among readers, editors didn’t particularly like his cartoons.
After chasing syndication for nearly eight years, Diller quit the newspaper business to work as a freelance illustrator before opening Access Pass and Design with his business partners in 2002.
In 2009, Diller started FundayMorning.com. His readers started commenting on the cartoons he posted and he understood the reach of his readership.
He published his first book, The Neighbors Have Two Flamingos, in 2011 and is currently working on his second book, which will be accompanied by a string of live speaking events. When Diller was a young boy, he liked anything that was drawn and was funny.
When he started drawing, there was not one specific person he tried to copy, but he liked the cartoon Andy Capp.
Diller couldn"t read at the time (he was 6 years old), but he could understand Andy Capp. From an early age, Diller was drawn to cartoons that took very little dialogue to tell a story.