Kazimir Strzepek is a cartoonist living in

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. He is the creator of the 2006 Eisner nominated graphic novel The Mourning Star. The Mourning Star also won an Ignatz during the 2007 Small Press Expo. He grew up in

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and went to the

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for a degree in computer animation.

References

The Comics Reporter

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