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Essayists Dan Nadel — East Coast Jack Boulware — West Coast Chris Offutt — the South Artists Jessica Abel is working on a non-comics novel, tentatively
titled Carmina, for HarperCollins Children’s Books. Her graphic
novel La Perdida is due out from Pantheon Books in 2006, she has co-authored
a graphic novel script called Life Sucks, to be published by First Second. Doug Allen is best
known for his self-syndicated underground comic, Steven, which ran for
twenty-three years in alternative weekly papers over the U.S. and has been
collected into a dozen volumes by Kitchen Sink Press and Fantagraphics
Books. He also contributes to the New Yorker and created comic panels featured
in the film, American Splendor. Peter Bagge is best
known for the comic series entitled Hate, which became the voice of the
twenty-nothing slackers as well as being hailed by critics for its brilliant
characterization. Bagge’s work has also appeared on many record and
CD covers and he writes and draws a weekly comic strip about Bat Boy for
The Weekly World News. Peter Bagge lives in Seattle with his wife, Joanne,
and daughter, Hannah. Brian Biggs is an
illustrator, designer, writer, animator, college professor, father, and
world-class run-away-from-Texaser. He has escaped Texas a total of three
times, and would do it again if given the chance. He lives in Philadelphia
now and currently expects to stay a while. USA #1! Martin Cendreda is
a cartoonist. He also animates to help “pay the bills.” He
is a husband to his wife, Jenny, and a valet to their two cats. He enjoys
naval literature and mah-jong. Lloyd Dangle is an
Oakland, California, cartoonist whose comic strip, Troubletown, appears
weekly in newspapers nationwide. Dangle’s drawings have adorned many
publications, and have brought health and vigor to millions on the packages
of America’s number-one-selling cold remedy, Airborne. Jeremy Eaton was born
in Guildford, England, in 1963. He has lived in the United States for more
than thirty years, half of those as an illustrator, working with the Village
Voice, Walt Disney Productions, Sub Pop Records, SF Weekly and Fantagraphics
Books, to name but a few. Mary Fleener is
best known for her book, Life of the Party, drawn in her signature “cubismo” style.
She is also an illustrator and painter, and lives in Encinitas, California,
with her husband, Paul Therrio. They have an acoustic band called the Wigbillies. Pete Friedrich has been involved in the comics world for over 25 years. He has drawn and published alternative comics and has packaged and designed for DC Comics and Chronicle Books. In his spare time he is a principal of Charette Communication Design, a graphic design and identity firm. Phoebe Gloeckner has
been amazing us with her stories and drawings for over twenty years. Gloeckner’s
work first appeared in underground comics such as Weirdo, Young Lust, Buzzard,
and Twisted Sisters. Her recent illustrated novel, The Diary of a Teen-age
Girl, is a harrowing, candid and unique book. |
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Artists - cont. Roberta Gregory has written and drawn lots of comics. Her notorious Bitchy Bitch character has appeared in comics, books (several languages), stage plays, and in her own animated series on cable TV! And there is much more coming! www.robertagregory.com Gilbert Hernandez,
along with brothers Jaime and Mario, revolutionized comics with the release
of Love and Rockets in 1982. His early stories—an exquisitely drawn,
unique blend of punk and sci-fi—soon made way for a cycle Megan Kelso was
born in Seattle, Washington, and studied history and political science
at Evergreen State College. She was the first woman to win the Xeric
Grant, which she used to self-publish six issues of the comic book Girlhero.
In 1998, Highwater Books published her short story collection, Queen
of the Black Black. She is currently working on a graphic novel called
Artichoke Tales. Matt Kindt is the
artist of the series Pistolwhip, multiple Eisner and Harvey award nominee.
Matt is working on follow-up stories to his recent graphic novel, 2 Sisters:
A Super-Spy Graphic Novel from Top Shelf. He is also designing Alan Moore’s
long-awaited Lost Girls graphic novel. Kindt lives and works in Webster
Groves, Missouri, with his wife and daughter, and may be found at: Keith Knight is
a Boston-born, Bay Area–based cartoonist whose two weekly comic
strips, The K Chronicles and (th)ink, can be found in newspapers, magazines,
and Web sites all across the country. He is also a rapper with the semiconscious
hip-hop group, the Marginal Prophets. Peter Kuper’s
illustrations and comics appear regularly in Time, the New York Times
and monthly in Mad. In 1979 he co-founded the political zine World War
3 Illustrated and remains on its editorial board. His recent graphic
novels include adaptations of Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis and
Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle and Sticks and Stones. Terry LaBan was
the creator of three alternative comic book series during the 1990s—Unsupervised
Existence, Cud, and Cud Comics—and has worked as a writer, illustrator,
and political cartoonist. Edge City, the comic strip he creates with
his wife, Patty, was syndicated by King Features Syndicate in 2001, and
appears in papers nationwide. John Porcellino was
born in Chicago in 1968. His long-running autobiographical work, King-Cat
Comics and Stories, was begun in 1989. Richard Sala has created
such titles as Peculia, Mad Night, The Chuckling Whatsit, Maniac Killer
Strikes Again! and the comic book series Evil Eye. His work has appeared
everywhere from MTV to Playboy and he has collaborated with writers Steve
Niles and Lemony Snicket. Pat Redding Scanlon,
who draws like a girl, lives in a pillow fort under an overpass in Queens
with her superbad husband, Frank. Rich Tommaso has
been creating comics for ten years, working for such publishers as Fantagraphics,
Dark Horse, and Alternative Comics. His comics works include: Cannibal
Porn, Clover Honey, Let’s Hit the Road, The Horror of Collier County,
8 1/2 Ghosts, and Perverso! ibooks is set to publish an original children’s
series of his in 2006. C. Tyler was born
and raised in the Midwest. This story and many more will appear in her
book Late Bloomer to be published by Fantagraphics. The labels are available
as a set of limited edition prints, sized to fit around actual cans of
green beans. Mack White is a cartoonist,
illustrator, writer, and conspiracy researcher whose work has been published
in many books and magazines throughout the world. Recently, he co-edited
(with Gary Groth) The Bush Junta, a comics documentary about the high crimes
and misdemeanors of the Bush family. |
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