Michael Jantze is an American comic strip writer, best known as the author of The Norm, a web comic strip that previously was syndicated and appeared in newspapers. A native of New York state, he grew up in Normal, Illinois. He worked as an editorial cartoonist at California State University, Northridge, then worked as an art director while working on his strip. He now lives in San Anselmo, California.
Michael Jantze is a Mac Enthusaiast and has used Macintosh's since the Mac 128k. The characters in his comic The Norm almost always use Macs as computers, unless they are supposed to be funny.