David Miguelito Higgins was born in Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania (yes, it's a real town) on September 19, 1961. 

"Fitz" is the Gaelic prefix signifying "bastard." On his mother's side of the family, a Fitzgerald married a Fitzpatrick, which makes him a bastard squared. 

He was raised in upstate New York, in Deposit, Elmira Heights (briefly), and Binghamton, and now lives in Corning, NY.

He was originally one of identical triplets, but at age three, during a lapse of parental attention, he drowned his brothers Peabo and Foots in their backyard kiddie pool.

His first job was as Chimp Wrangler and Head Diaper Boy for the chimpanzee stars of the 1970-71 TV show “Lancelot Link.” He quit after suffering many indignities at the hands of the vicious, filthy brutes.

His second job was selling Grit^TM, America’s Family Newspaper, door-to-door. Though a masterful salesboy, he spent all his accumulated points on a crystal radio set that never worked and a Wilt Chamberlain basketball on which the stamped signature was misspelled.

When he was a kid, his favorite football player was... O. J. Simpson.

In 1979, he graduated from Seton Catholic Central High School in Binghamton, NY. Classmates will remember him as one of the culprits responsible for an underground newspaper called "Liquid Skull." 

In the summer of 1983, he worked in East Los Angeles in a federally-funded project to help youth gangs (like the Latin Kings) create wall murals celebrating Chicano culture. 

He received degrees from SUNY-Binghamton (B.A., 1983) and Louisiana State University (M.F.A., 1988).

He once taught an art history course at the Hahn's Disease Research Center in Carrville, LA, the last existing leprosarium in the continental United States. 

He's a high night flyer and a rainbow rider and a straight shootin' son of a gun... but his economic philosophy is stone-cold Bolshevik.

He teaches Graphic Design, Painting, Drawing, and (sometimes) Philosophy of Art at Corning Community College.