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From 'An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories' - Edited by Ivan Brunetti An Illustrated of Contents Table 6 Copyright Yale University fi_001-031.indd 6 6/24/06 11:49:30 PPMM From 'An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories' - Edited by Ivan Brunetti CONTRIBUTORS Numbers at the end of each entry are the Confidential, loosely adapted from one of his Zippy: Type ‘Z’ Personality. Gri;th is married page where the artist’s work appears in this comics. 375 to cartoonist and editor Diane Noomin; they book live in Connecticut. 27 David Collier (Hamilton, ON) is best known Robert Armstrong is a cartoonist, illustrator, in Canada for the drawings he did at sea with John Hankiewicz (Westmont, IL) has self- teacher, and musician and is perhaps best the Navy (http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/ published his comic Tepid since 1995 as well known for his Mickey Rat comics and The artistonboard.html). He’s in his 40s now, as several mini-comics. A collection of his Couch Potato Newsletter. 136 re-enrolled in the army, serving in a platoon recent comics, Asthma, is forthcoming. 272 where everyone else is half his age. His wife Peter Bagge (Seattle) is best known for the Sammy Harkham (Los Angeles) edits the says he’s having a midlife crisis. 337 alternative humor series Hate, starring his comics anthology Kramer’s Ergot and draws alter-ego Buddy Bradley. He currently is work- Robert Crumb redefined comics forever with the ongoing comic book series Crickets ing on a miniseries titled Apocalypse Nerd Zap in 1967 and has since created perhaps (Drawn and Quarterly). 173 and is a regular contributor to Reason and the finest body of work the medium has ever Rory Hayes (1949–1983) was perhaps the ulti- Mad. 80 known. Fantagraphics is reprinting his en- mate underground artist: primitive, visionary, tire oeuvre in its Complete Crumb series. He Lynda Barry is an ancient cartoonist and and wholly original. His work can be seen in lives in southern France with his wife, Aline writer whose books include One Hundred Dan Nadel’s Art Out of Time. 64 Kominsky-Crumb. 299 Demons, Cruddy, and The Greatest of Marlys. David Heatley (Brooklyn) does an ongoing She lives on a farm in southern Wisconsin Henry Darger (1892–1972) is perhaps the comic series called Deadpan and contributes and will do so until she croaks. 46 quintessential “outsider artist” and has been to the Fantagraphics anthology Mome. 276 the subject of many books and exhibits, as Gabrielle Bell (Brooklyn) is the author of well as a documentary film. 62 Sam Henderson is living proof that Emmy Lucky and When I’m Old and Other Stories. nominees have to dive through couches for She regularly contributes to the ongoing Gene Deitch (Prague) won an Oscar and change. He has been a storyboard director Fantagraphics anthology Mome. 279 five nominations for his animated films. He for SpongeBob Squarepants and Camp Lazlo currently makes children’s films for Weston Marc Bell (Vancouver) is the creator of The and recently did a video for They Might Be Gi- Woods/Scholastic. One of his best known is Stacks and Shrimpy and Paul and Friends. ants. He can be seen regularly in Nickelodeon an adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s Where He is currently editing the collection Nog magazine, but his main vehicle is the comic The Wild Things Are. 94 A Dod: Prehistoric Canadian Psychedooolia. book The Magic Whistle. 11 Marc is represented by the Adam Baumgold Kim Deitch (New York): “I have been draw- Gilbert Hernandez (Las Vegas), along with Gallery. 3 ing and writing comic book stories since his brothers Jaime and Mario, has written 1967 and love doing it. My current project is Jonathan Bennett (Brooklyn) is a book de- and drawn over 60 issues of the series Love a book of illustrated fiction that I am doing signer at St. Martin’s Press and recently and Rockets. His solo books include Fear of with my two brothers, Deitch’s Pictorama. designed the latest issue of Comic Art mag- Comics, Luba in America, and Palomar: The My next book is Shadowland (Fantagraphics, azine. He is a regular contributor to the Heartbreak Soup Stories. 184 2006), which includes ‘Young Ledicker’ along Fantagraphics comics anthology Mome. 274 with many other stories with that character. Jaime Hernandez was born in 1959 in Oxnard, Mark Beyer: “I started making comics in In early 2007, I will have another collection, California, the one-time lima bean capital of 1975. I gave up drawing comics for good in Alias the Cat (Pantheon).” 126 the world, then the heroin tra;cking capital 2000. Some of the books I had published of the U.S., now the strawberry capital. He Julie Doucet (Montreal) used to draw comics were Agony, Amy and Jordan, and Dead Sto- loves comics and has been drawing them (My Most Secret Desire, New York Diary) and ries. I am now attempting to devote the rest professionally since 1982 (mostly Love and has done many di=erent things since then. of my life to more meaningful pursuits.” 68 Rockets) and would like to continue doing She now writes poems in French with words them until he’s a really old man. 190 Mat Brinkman (Providence) has a book, cut out from magazines. 256 Teratoid Heights, and draws a strip (Multi- George Herriman (1880–1944) is the creator Michael Dougan (Seattle) is an accomplished Force) in Paper Rodeo. He is “now still of Krazy Kat, universally acknowledged as a cartoonist and illustrator and is the author working on noise and some drawings.” 73 masterpiece of the medium. Fantagraphics of I Can’t Tell You Anything, which this editor is currently reprinting his masterful Sunday Chester Brown (Toronto) drew the comic hopes will be reprinted someday. 286 pages in its Krazy & Ignatz series. 57 book series Yummy Fur. His collections in- Debbie Drechsler (Santa Rosa) has been an clude The Playboy, I Never Liked You, The Walt Holcombe (Los Angeles) is currently editorial illustrator for the past 20 years, give Little Man, and Louis Riel. He is currently working on a collection of his comics work, or take a few. Her early comics were collected re-serializing his story Ed the Happy Clown Things Just Get Away From You, for Fanta- in the book Daddy’s Girl (Fantagraphics), and with new covers and endnotes. 224 graphics, due out in 2007. 84 her series Nowhere has been collected in a Je=rey Brown (Chicago) is best known for book called The Summer of Love (Drawn and Kevin Huizenga (St. Louis) has contributed his bittersweet relationship graphic novels Quarterly). 218 strips to the anthologies Orchid, Drawn and Clumsy and Unlikely. He is currently complet- Quarterly Showcase, and Kramer’s Ergot 5. He Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956) is known world- ing a small book about his childhood cat as is currently working on the comic book series wide for his accomplishments as a painter, well as a large collection of autobiographical Or Else (Drawn and Quarterly) and Ganges but began his career in art as a cartoonist short stories, Little Things. 264 (Fantagraphics). 283 and illustrator. His work was featured in the Ivan Brunetti (Chicago) is often compared historic Masters of American Comics exhibit. Crockett Johnson’s (1906–1975) comic strips to Charlie Brown by his students. 86 61 were collected into the books Barnaby and Barnaby and Mr. O’Malley. He is also the cre- Charles Burns (Philadelphia) is the author Phoebe Gloeckner is perhaps best known for ator of the classic series of children’s books of Black Hole (Pantheon) as well as Big Baby, her book A Child’s Life and Other Stories and Harold and the Purple Crayon. 42 El Borbah, and Skin Deep (Fantagraphics). her illustrated novel The Diary of a Teenage A book of recent photographs, One Eye, is Girl. 215 J. Bradley Johnson (San Francisco) has con- being published by Drawn and Quarterly in tributed to several anthologies over the years Justin Green (Cincinnati) is working on The 2006. 118 but has yet to make a whole comic book. He Last Will and Testament of Binky Brown, to be 399 enjoys drawing and long late-night walks. 107 Daniel Clowes (Oakland) is the creator of the published by Last Gasp, and continues to do Eightball series, which has been collected a monthly comic for Signs of the Times maga- Ben Katchor (New York) was awarded a Mac- in the books Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, zine. 205 Arthur Foundation Fellowship in 2000. Four Pussey!, Caricature, David Boring, Ice Haven, collections of his strips have been published: Bill Gri;th is best known for the strip Zippy, and Ghost World among others (the latter Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban De- syndicated by King Features to around 100 was adapted by Clowes and Terry Zwigo= cay; Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer; daily newspapers. In 2000 Fantagraphics into an Oscar-nominated screenplay). He The Jew of New York; and The Beauty Supply published the first Zippy Annual, the latest of recently wrote the screenplay for Art School District. 141 which are Zippy: From Here to Absurdity, and Copyright Yale University fi_380-400.indd 399 6/25/06 12:27:10 AAMM From 'An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories' - Edited by Ivan Brunetti Kaz (New York/Los Angeles) continues to Onsmith (Chicago) has published several Hotwire. His cartoons have appeared in Nicke- draw his weekly Underworld comic strip, mini-comics, such as Spit-Toons and Baka- lodeon magazine, the New Yorker, and The which is self-syndicated across America and Geta, and edited an anthology of one-panel Daily Show with Jon Stewart.