Frustrated with constantly being compared to the world’s great artists and writers like Renoir, Monet, da Vinci, Picasso, Shakespeare, Twain and Hemingway, Todd wanted to be different. So he started drawing and writing like a 5th grader so no one would take seriously. But that soon backfired as Todd’s offbeat humor and childlike artwork put him in a league of his own.
Todd’s work became hugely popular and successful as he has sold over 250,000 pieces of art and has over 50 books published. That and his merchandise has generated over a billion dollars in retail sales. Not too shabby for someone who obviously never went to art school or taken a writing class in his life.
Sure Todd probably won’t be hanging in a fancy museum anytime soon and he surely won’t being winning any writing awards. But he doesn’t care. Todd’s goal is to make people laugh with his silly art and funny stories and to remind people not to take life too seriously… Vincent Van Gogh and Edgar Allan Poe never did that!
