Early Life, Witches and Stitches
Millikin began drawing horror comics by age one-and-a-half, when he made crayon drawings of ghosts terrorizing him during toilet-training. By second grade, he was making teachers profane birthday cards showing his school burning down. As a youth, he was influenced by 1980s X-Men and Far Side comics and the video game Gorf. When he was in elementary school in 1985, Millikin began posting his unauthorized Wizard of Oz parody comic Witches and Stitches on Compuserve. Publishing on Compuserve allowed Millikin to self-publish, avoiding censorship. Witches and Stitches was popular with audiences around the world and inspired many artists to create their own webcomics. Copies of Witches and Stitches are now often difficult to find because Millikin was threatened with a lawsuit over the comic.
Millikin attended art school at Michigan State University in their Honors College. He paid his way through school by working in MSU's human anatomy lab dissecting human cadavers.
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