The scourge of all airlines, Kevin Smith spent nearly twenty years making the movies you watched growing up: Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and most recently Red State, which premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. He's also served as producer on Academy Award winner Good Will Hunting, Bryan Johnson’s Lionsgate release, Vulgar, and the documentaries Reel Paradise and Small Town Gay Bar. Currently, Smith's working on Hit Somebody - his final film, based on the Warren Zevon song.

When not working in movies, Smith can be found on a stage or answering for his crimes in four different Q&A DVD’s: An Evening with Kevin Smith, An Evening with Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder, A Threevening with Kevin Smith, and Too Fat for Forty. His fifth quasi-stand-up special, Kevin Smith Burn in Hell, debuts on Epix this month.

Smith has also dabbled in the legitimate printed word, as the author of The New York Times best selling books My Boring-Ass Life and Batman: Cacophony - which was improved dramatically by Walter Flanagan’s artwork. Smith has also published Silent Bob Speaks, Shootin’ the Shit with Kevin Smith (which was really just transcribed episodes of Smith’s SModcast), Batman: The Widening Gyre (also with Flanagan), and the forthcoming Tough Shit: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good.

As for the one-time illegitimate press – the “ten cent plague” as they were called by panicky parents back in the day – Smith has been a comic book man ever since he was a plump little boy. He’s written Green Arrow for DC Comics and Daredevil for Marvel Comics, as well as adapted his un-produced screenplays for The Green Hornet and The Bionic Man into comics series for Dynamite. He’s also written several comic books based on his movies, including Clerks, and The Adventures of Bluntman and Chronic, starring Jay and Silent Bob.

Ironically, it was podcasting that finally brought Kevin Smith to television - his babysitter and best friend since childhood. On February 5th, 2007, Smith released the first episode of SModcast – a podcast he does with his longtime producer and friend, Scott Mosier. Named one of the Best New Podcasts of 2007 by iTunes, Smith realized his true calling: telling stories with words, not pictures. He began posting more and more audio shows at his SModcast.com website, an online network that features new podcasts seven days a week, including Hollywood Babble-On, Jay and Silent Bob Get Old, Plus One, I Sell Comics, The SModCo SMorning Show, and Tell ‘Em, Steve-Dave - the podcast that spawned Comic Book Men! On May 9th 2011, SModcast Internet Radio premiered as S.I.R. - a 24/7 online talk radio station featuring live and archived podcasts from SModcast.com.

During his nearly twenty years in the business, Smith has picked up some awards (including top prizes at the Cannes and Sundance Film Festivals, a Humanitas, the Defender of Democracy Award, and Best Picture at the Sitges Film Festival 2011 for Red State), but it’s the comic book plaudits that mean the most to him: Smith has won both a Harvey Award, and a Wizard Fan Award, and the American Library Association’s Young Adult Library Service named his Green Arrow: Quiver as one of 2003’s Best Books for Young Adults.

But the greatest trick he ever pulled was convincing a girl to marry him nearly 14 years ago. On June 26th, 1999, his wife Jennifer Schwalbach gave birth to their only begotten daughter. Ever the comic book nerd, Smith named her after the Joker’s sidekick, Harley Quinn.

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