My name is Dav Pilkey and it’s spelled D-A-V, P-I-L-K-E-Y.
I used to be a waiter at a pizza restaurant, and they were making a nametag for me. Do you remember those old-fashioned label makers with the red ribbon, you know, and you go [makes noise] and you turn the dial and — well, the letter E was broken on it so they printed out D-A-V and then they got to E, it was like [makes noise]. So it just — my nametag said D‑A‑V and it’s just stuck.
I was never into sports, and I was always the youngest kid in my neighborhood. So I didn’t want to hang out with the other kids so much. I just liked to stay at home and draw. And it was one of the things that I was good at, and I drew all the way through school. And it was one of my — it was one of the only things in school that I was good at actually.