While there, he produced the daily comic strip Four Food Groups of the Apocalypse for the student newspaper The Observer.

[2][3] He earned a master's degree from University of California, San Diego in Literature with his thesis, "To draw in the crowd : the cartoon and the 'public sphere' of eighteenth-century England.

"[4] He received the Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarship,[5] to attend the University of Kent at Canterbury in England (within the Centre for Cartooning and Caricature Studies).

"[6] Dave Kellett is the creator behind the successful webcomics: Sheldon about a 10-year-old computer genius billionaire, and the sci-fi strip Drive.

In 2014, Kellet released the comics documentary Stripped, produced with twice-Sundance-nominated cinematographer, Fred Schroeder.