About The Dvorak Zine

1997, Oberlin College, Ohio. An impressionable first-year named Frunch stumbled across something called The Dvorak Simplified Keyboard Layout on the internet. Frunch told GCB about his discovery and the pair immediately set out to learn it.  The following year Alec was quickly convinced that Dvorak was the only way to type.  As time passed, our now inseparable trio promoted Dvorak's efficiency, health benefits, and simple beauty to friends, colleagues, and acquaintances using napkin-scrawled diagrams, enthusiastic rhetoric and dramatic gesticulations. Unfortunately, word did not spread quickly. They felt they lacked the proper tools to communicate the simple elegance of Dvorak to the world.

Then, in 2005 Alec was brainstorming with fellow Comics artist Aaron Renier who suggested that Alec create a small zine about "something he really cared about." Alec immediately knew what he would do: "Of course! We'll use the power of COMICS to promote Dvorak!" Alec recruited Frunch and GCB and the trio began to develop, research and revise a script for the zine. Alec spent the spring of 2005 drawing and inking the Zine while Frunch and GCB helped with research and the design of this companion website.

DVzine.org was immediately featured on Slashdot.org, and garnered over 30,000 hits in just a few days, until our server crashed. In 2007 we were also featured on BoingBoing.net which caused a similar influx of interest.

Alec, Frunch, and GCB are dedicated to their goal of spreading the Dvorak keyboard to as many typists as humanly possible! That means distributing the zine, answering questions, helping people who are new to Dvorak, and continually improving this website to supplement and support the zine!

ALEC

Alec Longstreth was born and raised in Seattle, WA. He has been self-publishing his PHASE SEVEN COMICS since 2002. He currently works as a freelance illustrator in Brooklyn, NY.

FRUNCH

Frunch (AKA "Michael Cardiff") grew up in Towson, MD. At Oberlin, he received High Honors in Mathematics for his project on mathematically optimizing keyboards. He is currently working on his PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering with an emphasis in Hydrology at Stanford University.

GCB

GCB was born and raised in Portland, OR. After traveling all over the world for a while, he moved to New York City where he worked as a Mac Genius in the 5th Avenue Apple Store. He now works as the operations director for Immigration Equality