Travis Dandro was born in 1974, in Leicester, Massachusetts. He started publishing his first comic strip, Twerp, in the local newspaper when he was thirteen years old, earning $15 a week. After graduating from Montserrat College of Art in 1996, Dandro continued drawing comics, his work appearing in dozens of college newspapers across the United States and Canada. He also self-published Journal, which was a notable comic in the 2010 and 2012 editions of The Best American Comics. His first book was King of King Court. Dandro lives in Maine with his wife and three sons.