Leonard M. Cachola
Interviewee and Artist

Leonard M. Cachola was born on April 24, 1972. During his senior year at Clements High School, Texas, Cachola served as art editor for the school's literary magazine. At the University of Houston, Cachola published a daily comic strip, Strange News, for three-and-a-half years in the The Daily Cougar. He ten created a second daily comic strip, Extra Pepperoni, and wrote a weekly column for The Cougar.

Cachola graduated from the University of Houston with a Bachelor of Arts in English and minor in Studio Art in 1996, then attended Royer Studios' Animation Institute of Los Angeles in 1998 and 1999.

In 1999, Cachola wrote the Cartooning and Animation chapter of Glencoe/McGraw-Hill's 3rd Edition of Creating and Understanding Drawing. He also did a short stint as a storyboard cleanup artist in 1999 at Saban Entertainment.

On February 14, 2000, he started his online comic strip Innies and Outties. He recently published four Innies and Outties compilations, It's All Mine and You Can't Have It!, Phooey! Evil Gets All the Fun!, Tell Me You're Not Like This Every Morning and In Case of Zombie, Break Glass. Cachola also served as the house photographer for the 2004 and 2005 Bangkok International Film Festivals.

Leonard Cachola appears in Adventures Into Digital Comics.