They Went Another Way

About the Author

Bruce Eric Kaplan was born in New Jersey and moved to Los Angeles when he was twenty-one. He had a million bad jobs until finally, he became a television writer and producer. Over the years, he worked on such shows as Seinfeld, Six Feet Under, and Girls. He is a writer/producer on the Netflix shows No Good Deed and Too Much and the showrunner for the second season of Nobody Wants This. Kaplan is also a cartoonist. He first appeared in The New Yorker over thirty years ago and he has been a regular contributor ever since. He has done over a thousand cartoons as well as over a dozen covers for the magazine. After his children were born, he started writing and illustrating picture books. The first was called Monsters Eat Whiny Children, and he subsequently wrote four other picture books. In addition, he has three collections of cartoons published, written and illustrated four picture books for adults, and wrote and illustrated a memoir, I Was a Child.