Jeffrey Brown is an Eisner award-winning cartoonist best known for his internationally acclaimed Star Wars books, including Jedi Academy and the New York Times #1 bestseller Darth Vader and Son. A lifelong comics fan, Brown was pursuing his MFA at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago when he abandoned painting to write and draw his first graphic memoir, Clumsy. Since then, he has created dozens of comics and graphic novels for both adults and children, directed an animated video for the band Death Cab for Cutie, co-wrote the screenplay of the film Save The Date, and exhibited his artwork at galleries in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Brown lives in Chicago with his wife and sons, along with their dog, and, of course, cat.