Daniel Kibblesmith was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois on the day of a prominent mushroom parade. His first intellectual property, Dr. Dactyl was self-published at the age of three, and briefly adapted for television, until the static cling faded and the perforated pages slipped off the screen.
Exposed at an early age to the mind-bending metafilms of Mike Jittlov and Jim Henson, Daniel became aware of the off-screen world of the filmmaker and began his own VHS experiments with stop-motion animation at the age of five, eventually graduating to clay and human actors. He went on to pursue film studies at Columbia College in Chicago, where he majored in directing, screenwriting, and composing third-person artistic statements.
His curriculum further took him to the Semester in Los Angeles program, where he appeared as a student representative for a CNN segment, graduated and eventually secured an internship back home in Chicago where he studied the adaptation process between film and, another of his early passions, comics.
Since concluding school he has worked on video projects with and for Milwaukee Hip-Hop mogul, Juiceboxxx, Punk-Rock Cabaret sensation, The Dresden Dolls, Comics-to-Film law guru and Eclipse co-founder Ken F. Levin, and Vanity Fair and Newser.com media magnate Michael Wolff. He also studied improv and comedic writing at The Second City, and has been heard on the actual radio as part of the defunct Anti-Folk duo The Metasciences.
He currently resides in Chicago, IL, dividing his time between freelance video, speculative scripts and self-published comics, while working part-time as a library clerk. He plays a little ukulele, owns a turtle, and is not yet proven vulnerable to bullets, poison gas, bear attacks or lightning, but is expecting news on that last one any day now.
He can be reached on every website by adding “/Kibblesmith”, and via non-snail mail at Kibblesmith@gmail.com.