Fired from Hallmark for writing meaningful greeting-card verse, he once ran twenty straight balls at pool; finished 183rd (out of about 10,000) at the 1985 U.S. Open Crossword Puzzle Tournament; won a yodeling contest in a German restaurant; was bitten by a guard dog in a tattoo parlor; survived a car crash with Sidney Lumet; Paul Newman once claimed to have known him for a long time; has not been arrested in 17 months. He is the author of A Boilermaker for the Lady (NYQ Books).
A celebrity comic book artist in France, Philippe Petit-Roulet is known best in the US for his New Yorker covers and spots. He has published half a dozen comic books with Didier Martiny, and many books, including Spots, Editions Cornelius (2014), Precis d'architecture (2012) and Les Bras de Morphee (2010) both with Alain Beaulet; as well as Music Is with Lloyd Moss, published in the US by Penguin Putnam in 2003. He has participated in advertising campaigns worldwide, and received awards for his playful graphic drawings and animations from Communications Arts in America, Art Directors' Club in France, and the Bradford Animation Festival in England. He lives in Paris with his wife and children.
