An artist “whose work comes from the painfully familiar” (Esquire), Bruce Eric Kaplan, also known as “BEK,” is famous for his dark-humored single-panel New Yorker cartoons. These cartoons have been collected in No One You know, This Is a Bad Time, and I Love You, I Hate You, I’m Hungry. Kaplan is also the author of the cult classic The Cat That Changed My Life, as well as three picture books. He was a writer and executive producer for the HBO series Six Feet Under, and wrote several seminal Seinfeld episodes (including the one where Elaine becomes increasingly incensed by a seemingly pointless New Yorker cartoon). I Was a Child is an illustrated memoir of a life as painful and hilarious as Kaplan’s best cartoons.