Kyle A. Carrozza

Carrozza was born on May 19, 1979, in Catskill, New York. His father worked as a teacher for Catskill Middle School and as a photographer. He studied under cartoonist Brian Mitchell during the summertime. He graduated from Catskill High School in 1997 and in the Art Institute of Philadelphia in 1999.^[3]

Carrozza married Lindsay Smith, a character designer and voice actress, in 2014.^{[9][citation needed]} She filed for divorce on August 16, 2024, two months after his arrest.^[10]

On June 20, 2024, Carrozza was arrested for possession on two counts of child pornography.^{[1][11][12][13]} Several former colleagues, such as Mighty Magiswords storyboard artist Luke Sienkowski (professionally known as Luke Ski), and The FuMP, announced their disassociation with him as a result.^[14][15] On their X accounts, Sienkowski stated "I will no longer be working with Kyle A. Carrozza" and that "Our animation podcast has been taken down by the network that was hosting it," in reference to the podcast Carrozza and Sienkowski ran for Otaku Generations entitled Kyle and Luke Talk About Toons,^[15] while The FuMP stated that "we have removed Kyle's listing from the Artists page and removed his songs from the random player at the bottom of the site. However, we are not going to delete his songs from the archive entirely. To do so would be to rewrite history and deny he was ever an important part of The FuMP."^[14] Meanwhile, Needlejuice Records, who collaborated with Carrozza on a successful Kickstarter campaign for his music, also announced their disassociation with him and have removed all his music from their roster.^[16]

Carrozza cites the works of Bob Clampett, Jamie Hewlett, many Spümcø alumni (e.g. John Kricfalusi, Vincent Waller, Bob Camp, Jim Smith, Chris Reccardi, Nick Cross, Eddie Fitzgerald, Lynne Naylor, etc.), Ken Mitchroney, Bill Kopp, Doug TenNapel, Bruce Timm, and Jhonen Vasquez as his main inspirations.^[17] Carrozza was also heavily influenced by anime and tokusatsu shows (e.g. Super Sentai, Kamen Rider, etc.) and would frequently implant references to them in his works. Carrozza's music styling was influenced by the works of "Weird Al" Yankovic, They Might Be Giants and numerous artists, with the two former inspiring his use of the accordion in his works.