Hey, I can't write this in third person... it sounds trite. My name is Jesse Kiefer, I live in a small town in the Midwest, and I teach elementary art for the Public School District here. I also help teach and run a Martial Arts School so the majority of the Strips I've written thus far have been related to Martial Arts.

I started with Sabum Says, which was plain and simple a Vanity Strip, I didn't see it that way but that's exactly what it was. All of the Characters look like people in my home martial arts school and they directly correlate to an actual living person. So I decided to retire that strip before I offended someone I respect.

Then I started Just For Kicks which is really the same strip but with new characters, but whoa hold up, in an effort to show exactly how different the two strips are I tied in Sabum Says... within the first 25 strips! So Sabum Says continues on as a small part of the new strip. JFK (Just For Kicks) is just getting rolling so look for it to change up as things evolve and grow.

I have done some Guest Strips here and there for some webcomic artists out there that were kind enough to post my work, and I've done some freelance Illustration work most recently for a textbook about Classroom Management published in November of 2008.