I'm KARL WITHAKAY... It's not my real name. My real name is Karl Westerberg. But when introducing myself as Karl I always said my name was "with a K" because I dispised the thought that people might think my name was Carl – with a C. It makes a difference, you know. Carl is the guy who enjoyed high school biology a little too much. Carl is the guy that wears funny ties in accounts recievable. Carl is the guy at the local bar who lost a finger down at the factory in '87.

I'm Karl (with a K) and when I would introduce myself as such, people thought that that was my name – first and last. They thought is was coincidentally clever...or that I was somehow Native American...And since I'm setting the record straight, I'm not a Native American, and it's not a coincidence that I'm clever.

I am an award-winning graphic designer working at a prestigious design firm in midtown Manhattan. I also run a successful freelance business out of my own home. I graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree at the top of his class from the University of Minnesota Duluth, and soon moved to New York City. I have designed for some of the most celebrated companies in the country: United States Postal Service, Crayola, MTV, D.C. Comics, Warner Bros., Major League Soccer, Hasbro and World Poker Tour.