The author, Fall 2005 Alumni Magazine Jeremy began cartooning at the tender age of eleven, spurred on by his hatred of mandatory industrial arts courses and the desperation of his friend Shawn for reading material in the back of the classroom. Thanks to the dubious influence of Garfield, these early works featured hideously bug-eyed metalshop teachers, locked in an intergalactic struggle over the usage of the U.S. Standard Gauge in the distant future.
Somehow, these evolved into File, a graphic novel series about the students of Manchester Central High. Beginning in 1996, File branched off into a weekly strip in The Heights at Boston College, entitled Over the Counter Culture. OTCC ran through 1999.
After graduation, Jeremy moved back to New Hampshire, and garnered local media attention for his comic. In 2004, File was retitled Leave, Freeze, or Die, and began appearing on NewHampshire.com and in various newspapers owned by the Union Leader, an ironic development considering its publisher is the villain of the comic.
Today Jeremy resides in eastern Massachusetts, with his wife and their son.
Leave, Freeze or Die is the story of students at fictional College University, set against the incredibly dull backdrop of Manchester, New Hampshire. Forced by the lack of culture to entertain themselves, the students have formed their own unsanctioned acting company, to the chagrin of the college dean, who would prefer they all simply die. 