Odd Todd

Odd Todd is a website owned and operated by Todd Rosenberg, who has created a series of humorous Flash cartoons depicting the world of unemployment, after becoming unemployed himself.
Rosenberg's first cartoon, Laid Off: A Day in the Life, humorously deals with frustration, despair, and boredom of an unemployed man in his 30s, a situation shared by many in the Silicon Valley after the dot com crash. After visitors contributed several thousand dollars through the website's "Tip Cup" link, the New York [State Department of Labor] attempted to revoke Rosenberg's unemployment benefits on the grounds that the site constituted a business. In July 2002, a judge ruled that Rosenberg did not have to return the benefits he had received.
His cartoon character was picked up for development at Comedy Central for a half-hour television show but was downgraded to a web series. His book, The Odd Todd Handbook was published in 2003 by Warner Books.
Rosenberg now works as a screenwriter, with his first film being the 2020 film All [My Life |All My Life].