- For his comic equilavent, see Tom (Character).
From the Author[2]
"I've been an artist for over 6 years, starting around the age of 14. The first anime I remember watching was My Neighbor Totoro. I decided to start drawing after I stumbled upon webcomics through a random web search. The first webcomic I read was Vet on the Net, and that lead to dozens of others.
I was inspired to write Twokinds after having experienced a lot of racial discrimination from kids at my school, who were predominantly [sic] white. My writing skills at the time were not very good, but I still felt like I was doing something good by trying to create a good message through my writing. After struggling to create a book for a year, I decided making a comic might be a better option. After working at my art for several more years, I finally came out with Twokinds on October 22nd, 2003.
Today, I am a college student at Raymond Walters College, a part of the University of Cincinnati. I'm studying to become a Radiation therapist, while doing artwork on the side."
(This statement was posted in early 2010 so it is quite out of date.)
Trivia
- Tom chose to use his middle name "Thomas" as his published name. Publishing under a different name than your own is not particularly uncommon for authors of any media to do.
- Tom's younger brother by just under a year, Mark Fischbach, is a famous YouTube celebrity under the username Markiplier[3]. Mark's channel centres around entertaining sketches as well as playthroughs of horror and other video games. Mark is known to be very caring of his fanbase and a large supporter of raising money for charities, both by donating himself and encouraging others to give what they can. His channel has gained over 2,000,000 subscribers in little over a year at one point, and at the time he passed 25,000,000 subscribers, he was the 86th most subscribed user on the site.