Childhood and Early Life
Jeffrey Kinney was born and grew up in Fort Washington, Maryland, United States. He attended the University of Maryland at College Park in the early 1990s. It was in college that Kinney created the popular comic strip, Igdoof that ran in the campus newspaper, The Diamondback. While at college, he wanted to become a cartoonist.
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Ah fields beloved in vain!
Where once my careless childhood stray’d,”
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