As a 17-year-old senior at Wm. J. Palmer High School, Kirk sold one of the first cartoons he ever drew to SKI Magazine.
Even though he tried, and tried and tried again, he never sold another cartoon to any magazine again—ever!
What’s worse: the ski cartoon was never published.
He tried his hand at editorial cartooning by securing an internship at the Boulder Daily Camera. His editorial cartoons have appeared in the Lamar Tri-State Daily News, the Pikes Peak Journal, the Cheyenne Edition, the Colorado Springs Sun and the Colorado Springs Independent.
Kirk submitted over a dozen concepts for comic strips. This involved drawing 24 to 42 daily and Sunday comic strips and mailing them off to newspaper syndications for their consideration.
Kirk draws over 15 original greeting cards annually for friends and family.
Kirk’s cartooning process has evolved from pen and ink drawings on Bristol board to an Apple Pencil and Procreate app on an iPad Pro. While there are no longer physical originals, this app provides the platform for diverse drawing styles. Kirk also dabbles in painting with watercolors and acrylic paints.
Kirk has supported his cartooning avocation through a variety of jobs and entrepreneurial ventures, including grocery stores, restaurants, pizzerias and his own sub shop, culminating—so far—in a 32 year career as a self-employed tilesetter. Some of his former sandwich customers at the USAFA became tile customers and some of his customers are now Maverick Observer.
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