Jesse Baggs grew up in Sacramento, California close to Fulton Avenue, the street used by legendary cartoonist Robert Crumb as reference for depictions of urban alientation and decay. Unaware of his neighborhood's deficiencies, Jesse was happily raised on a steady diet of comics, Star Wars and Mormonism, and eventually graduated from California State University Sacramento with a BA in English.

Over the years Jesse has created illustrations and designs for a variety of clients and publications, such as TerraPass, Drum! Magazine and the California Department of Education. His comic strip Children Who Toil won the 2008 CWA National Newsletter Contest (pdf) for Best Original Comic, and his mini-comic Is Punk Dead? was excerpted in rock critic Ian Shirley's Can Rock and Roll Save the World? and reviewed by an Australian teenager for a class assignment.

Despite periodic forays beyond the gravitational pull of his hometown, Jesse continues to live in Sacramento with his fiancé, their cat, a fish, two dogs and whatever other strays they've taken in or animals they happen to be petsitting at the moment. Jesse contributes to the group blog MySacramento.me, mentors high school student and aspiring cartoonist Clave Fourie and teaches art to adults with disabilities at Studio 700 in Roseville.