About The Comic/Authors
Dirty Illiterate Youth began in September, 2007, from doodles Phyll did at work, and decided he wanted to use the characters in a comic. He called his friend Cory to help write strips for it. It was three panels of whatever came to their sick young minds.
First Strip of Dirty Illiterate Youth v1.0
The first version was not long lasting, only seven strips were created. Interest waned, and it went on an indefinite hiatus.
In October, 2008, DIY relaunched with completely revamped art and characters, along with colour. It retained little of the original version but it’s name and it’s authors. It marked the beginning of Cory and Phyll using comic analogs of themselves as characters in the comic. It’s longevity was even shorter, six strips created. Once again, it slipped into hiatus, something to work on some other time.
First Strip of DIY v2.0
In November, 2009, Phyll decided to restart the comic, laying down basic character designs, plot elements, and other concepts. He called Cory and thanked him for agreeing to write for it, without ever really asking. Phyll found new hosting for the site, got it set up(with some help), and settled down to begin drawing Dirty Illiterate Youth v3.0
Enjoy.
Cory McFall
As told by him.
“So I pretty much hate writting autobiographys. Mostly because they’re kind of self centered if you think about it, especially if you’re like me with nothing interesting to really tell. I guess I could start out by saying that I was born in White Salmon Washington, in the long forgotten year of 1988 to young, sort of hippy parents. I was raised in Redmond Oregon with my one brother, where I didn’t do much besides listen to music, play video games, and eat strawberry poptarts. I moved to Vegas with my family when I was 16 for reasons still unknown to me. In Vegas I me great friends and experienced music the way I always wanted. Currently I am living with my girlfriend Tashiana and our two cats in a nice apartment in Northern Las Vegas, where we go on adventures, watch movies, play Wii, and listen to records all day. Future plans include getting the fuck out of this desert, and finding a new job that pays me more than I am getting paid nothing, which is jack sqaut. That’s pretty much my lame ass.”
(Note: I didn’t correct any of his spelling, that is how he sent it to me.)
He left out an intense love for skateboarding, how much he really loves music, and how lazy he is. Music is a huge part of his life, and has been a member of several bands through the years, in both Nevada and Oregon. If you want to talk about music for hours, start talking to Cory about it.
Phyll Brown
Phyll Brown moved around through his youth, soaking up different areas of the United States. A strong love for music brought him close to many people, all over. After nearly flunking out of ART I in his freshmen year of high school, he stopped any attempts at doodling he did. For two and a half years this drawing embargo continued, short of a few inappropriate doodles here or there. Then something inspired him to start drawing again, and encouraged by his art teacher(Patric Reynolds, go look where he is now!) to continue with it. He spent some time selling artwork in downtown Las Vegas, at First Friday. DIY was started during this time. After a journey with two moves from one side of the country to the other in under a year, he settled in South Carolina, and focused mostly on music. After events in his personal life caused him to re-evalute his life, he began to work on the most recent version of DIY.