B. Kliban

Early life and education Born in Norwalk, Connecticut, Kliban studied at the Pratt Institute and Cooper Union but "flunked out." He spent time painting and traveling in Europe before moving to California, where he lived in the North Beach section of San Francisco. He did freelance advertising illustration, drawing ads, logos and annual reports. It was while living in North Beach that Kliban began to draw cartoons for Playboy magazine. The income from Playboy provided financial security that enabled him in 1967 to move Brown and his daughter Kalia to the suburb of Fairfax, Marin County.

Publications Books Cat, 1975 ( (pb), (hb)) Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head and Other Drawings, 1976 Whack Your Porcupine and Other Drawings, 1977 Tiny Footprints, 1978 Playboy's Kliban, 1979 Playboy's New Kliban, 1980 Catcalendar Cats: The Complete Collection, 1981 Two Guys Fooling Around with the Moon, 1982 Luminous Animals and Other Drawings, 1983 The Biggest Tongue in Tunisia and Other Drawings, 1986 Advanced Cartooning, 1993

Comic books (Kliban credited under a pseudonym)

Posters March 5, 1967 – Benefit for Newstage and Straight Theater: Moby Grape, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Country Joe & the Fish, The Sparrows at Avalon Ballroom.