Duffey has been drawing cartoons for as long as he can remember. As a kid, there was rarely a pencil far from his hand, and not much has changed since — although these days he's generally trusted with sharper ones. His cartoons are created with middle-grade kids in mind and are filled with the sorts of things he would have loved to discover himself as a boy — ramshackle treehouses, secret hideaways, ridiculous inventions and strange contraptions that probably shouldn't work, but somehow do. 

There is a healthy dose of silliness in Duffey's work, along with a fascination for places and things that invite a little exploring. Every cartoon begins the old-fashioned way: with an idea, a pencil and a blank piece of paper — followed, more often than not, by a very large eraser. His drawings are entirely his own, created by hand from the first scribble to the final line, with all the wonky bits, oddball characters and happy accidents that happen along the way.