Thomas Lampion was born in Hot Springs, North Carolina in 1989. After brief and unsuccessful stints as a student, a psych ward patient, a screenwriter, a graveyard shift worker, a day laborer, a drag queen, a deli clerk, and a landscaper, he eventually found some underground success as a cartoonist, writing his first graphic novel The Burning Hotels, published in 2020 to some acclaim and an Eisner Nomination for Best Single Issue. Mr. Lampion is not in the business of giving away his whereabouts but has been away from home for some time now.