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Kramer's Ergot
''Kramers Ergot'' is a series of anthology-style books of comic art edited by Sammy Harkham. Publication history ''Kramers Ergot'' started as a mini-comic self-published by Sammy Harkham under the imprint Avodah Books. Issues 4 and 5 were published by Gingko Press, while issues 6 and 7 were published by Buenaventura Press. Published in November 2008, ''Kramers Ergot'' 7 features almost 60 artists and is larger (16" by 21") and more expensive ($125) than previous editions. An eighth volume was released in January 2012 from PictureBox. A ninth volume was released in April 2016 from Fantagraphics Books. A tenth volume was released in July 2019 from Fantagraphics Books. Reception A Quimby's blog item promoting multiple touring artists said: "''Kramers Ergot'' has been favorably reviewed and placed on numerous "best of the year" lists, including ''L.A. Weekly'', '' Dazed & Confused'', the ''Comics Journal'', and ''Publishers Weekly''." Issues and contributors Notes External li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sammy Harkham
Sammy Harkham (born May 21, 1980) is an American cartoonist and editor, best known for editing the ''Kramers Ergot'' alternative comics anthology. His current work can be found in the comic ''Crickets'', which was published by Drawn & Quarterly for its first two issues but is now self-published. He is the co-owner of the Family Bookstore in Los Angeles, and the co-founder of Cinefamily (now known as Fairfax Cinema). His father is developer Uri Harkham. Awards and honors *2002 Ignatz Award nominated for Promising New Talent *2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Since 1980, the ''Los Angeles Times'' has awarded a set of annual book prizes. The Prizes currently have nine categories: biography, current interest, fiction, first fiction (the Art Seidenbaum Award added in 1991), history, mystery/thriller ... for ''Everything Together: Collected Stories'' References External links Family Bookstore blog The Comics Journal 1980 births Alternative cartoonists American carto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Grillo
Joe Grillo (b. 1980 Meteor City, AZ) is an American visual artist based in Virginia Beach, VA. He was briefly a member of the artist collective Paper Rad, before splintering off to found the artist collective Dearraindrop with siblings Laura Grant and Billy Grant in 2003. His graphic work was published in the underground comics newspaper Paper Rodeo and Kramers Ergot. He has exhibited internationally as a solo artist at Nordiska Akvarellmuseet Museum in Skarhamn, Loyal Gallery in Sweden, and The Hole in New York City. His artwork has been described by Roberta Smith of The New York Times as "raucous, densely composed works... crowded with apparent pop-culture figures and motifs that are nearly all invented. Rendered in saturated colors outlined in black, they operate in an area bounded by painting, cartooning, graffiti and perhaps video games... a crazed retinal overload tends to distinguish Mr. Grillo’s works from those of his predecessors." Music has been an important influenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tobias Schalken
Tobias is the transliteration of the Greek which is a translation of the Hebrew biblical name he, טוֹבִיה, Toviyah, JahGod is good, label=none. With the biblical Book of Tobias being present in the Deuterocanon/Apocrypha of the Bible, Tobias is a popular male given name for both Christians and Jews in English-speaking countries, German-speaking countries, the Low Countries, and Scandinavian countries. In English-speaking countries, it is often shortened to Toby. In German, this name appears as Tobias or Tobi; in French as Tobie; and in Swedish as Tobias or Tobbe. Tobias has also been a surname. In other languages * Danish, Norwegian, German, Dutch, Swedish, Portuguese: Tobias * Amharic: ጦቢያ (T’obīya) * Catalan: Tobies * Czech: Tobiáš, Tobias * Croatian: Tobijaš * Finnish: Topias, Topi * French: Tobie * Greek: Τωβίας ''(Tobías)'' * Hebrew: Tovia, Tuvya * Hungarian: Tóbiás * Italian: Tobia (name) * Lithuanian: Tobijas * Polish: Tobiasz * Russi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Drain
Jim Drain (born 1975) is an American mixed media artist. Drain often makes work collaboratively, first within the collective, Forcefield (1996–2002) and also with artists Elyse Allen, Ara Peterson, and Ben Russell, respectively. Life and work Drain was born in 1975 in Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1998 with a B.F.A. degree in Sculpture. He is a former member of Forcefield, who were included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial. His solo exhibitions ''I Wish I Had a Beak'' (2005) and ''I Would Gnaw On My Hand'' (2007) were presented at Greene Naftali Gallery in New York. His work is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. He was the 2005 recipient of the Bâloise Prize The Baloise Art Prize is a prize awarded to two people each year at "Art Statements" sector of the international Art Basel fair. The prize is awarded by the Bâloise group (insurance and banking), a company that works to promote contemporary, em ....Christ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Forgues
Christopher "Chris" Forgues, (also known professionally as C.F. and Kites), is an artist and musician, best known for his graphic novel serial ''Powr Mastrs''. He is based in Providence, Rhode Island. About He holds a B.F.A. from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. C.F. was influenced in the 2000s by the Fort Thunder art collective in Providence, Rhode Island and did some worked with them. C.F. collaborated with Ben Jones on a zine project called "Paper Radio". ''Art in America'' magazine named Forgues one of the, "most important cartoonists of their generation" for his work with Paper Radio. His graphic novel series, ''Powr Mastrs'', is published by Picturebox. His story "Mosfet Warlock and the Mechlin Men" was included in The Best American Comics 2009, edited by Charles Burns. His work has also been published in Kramers Ergot, and has been shown at galleries in New York and Los Angeles. Forgues had a monthly comic strip, Monorail High, in ''Mothers News ''Moth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allison Cole
Allison may refer to: People * Allison (given name) * Allison (surname) (includes a list of people with this name) * Eugene Allison Smith (1922-1980), American politician and farmer Companies * Allison Engine Company, American aircraft engine manufacturer * Allison Transmission, American manufacturer of automatic transmissions and hybrid propulsion systems * Allison & Allison, American architectural firm * Allison & Busby, English publishing house * Cummins Allison, American manufacturer of currency handling and coin handling systems Literature * ''Allison'' (novel series), a novel and anime series by Keiichi Sigsawa * ''Allison'', a picture book by Allen Say Music * Allison (band), a Mexican pop punk band ** ''Allison'' (album), their 2006 album * The Allisons, an English pop duo * "Allison", a song by American Hi-Fi from '' Blood & Lemonade'' * "Allison", a 2007 song by Permanent Me from ''After the Room Clears'' * "Allison", a 1990 song by Pixies from ''Bossanova'' Plac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Bell (cartoonist)
Marc Bell (born 1971 in London, Ontario) is a Canadian cartoonist and artist. He was initially known for creating comic strips (such as ''Shrimpy and Paul''), but Bell has also created several exhibitions of his mixed media work and watercoloured drawings. ''Hot Potatoe'' ic a monograph of his work, was released in 2009. His comics have appeared in many Canadian weeklies, ''Vice'', and ''LA Weekly''. He has been published in numerous anthologies, such as ''Kramers Ergot'' and ''The Ganzfeld''. Publications *''Boof'', 1992, Caliber Press (Plymouth, MI) *''Hep'', 1993, Caliber Press (Plymouth, MI) *''The Mojo Action Companion Unit Vol.2 #1'', 1997, Exclaim! (Toronto, ON) *''Shrimpy and Paul and Friends'', 2003, Highwater Books (Brooklyn, NY) *''Worn Tuff Elbow'' #1, 2004, Fantagraphics (Seattle, WA) *''The Stacks'', 2004, Drawn & Quarterly (Montreal, PQ) *''The Hobbit'' (with Peter Thompson), 2005, PictureBox (Brooklyn, NY) *''Fresh From Kiev'', 2005, Bulb Comix (Geneva, CH) *' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lauren Weinstein (comics)
Lauren Weinstein (born 1975) is an American comic book artist and illustrator. Her first comics appeared as syndicated strips in the '' Seattle Stranger'' and Gurl.com, a website aimed at teenagers. Weinstein was one of a number of artists who graduated from Washington University in St. Louis and moved to New York City in the late 1990s, among them Patrick Smith of ''Vector Park'' and Dan Nadel of ''The Ganzfeld''. Her first solo comic, the Xeric award-winning"Xeric Foundation Comic Book Self-Publishing Grants for 2002" Retrieved June 25, 2011. ''Inside Vineyland'', was published in 2003. Her collection ''Girl Stories'', which originated as a series of short s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leif Goldberg
Leif is a male given name of Scandinavian origin. It is derived from the Old Norse name ''Leifr'' (nominative case), meaning "heir", "descendant". Use in the Nordic countries Spelling and prevalence Across the Nordic countries, the most commonly occurring spelling of the name is ''Leif'', however, there are some well-established regional variants: * – Leiv * – Lejf * – Leifur * – Leivur In Norway, about 17,000 men have Leif as their first (or only) name. In Sweden, 70,000 men have the name Leif, about 60% of them as a first name. As of 2018, about 15,000 Danish men have Leif as their first name. In Finland, as of 2012, 4,628 men have Leif as a first name. In the U.S. , as of 2015, 6,415 men have Leif as a first name. Pronunciation Because the Scandinavian languages differ in their pronunciation of the digraphs and , the name Leif may be either pronounced as an approximate rhyme for "safe", or approximately like the English word "life", In Sweden, Finland, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anders Nilsen (cartoonist)
Anders Nilsen (born 1973) is an American cartoonist who lives in Los Angeles, California. Biography Nilsen graduated with an art degree from the University of New Mexico in 1996.Nilsen, Anders. "Afterword," ''Big Questions, or Asomatognosia'' (Drawn & Quarterly, June 2011), p. 589. He moved to Chicago in 1999 to get a Master of Fine Arts in painting, but dropped out after one year. Nilsen's comics have appeared in the anthologies ''Kramers Ergot'' and '' Mome''. His graphic novel ''Dogs and Water'' won an Ignatz Award in 2005. An excerpt from '' Dogs and Water '' was featured in the inaugural 2006 edition of the ''Best American Comics'' anthology, and the book was expanded and reissued in hardcover in 2007. In 2007, Nilsen won an Ignatz Award for his graphic memoir, ''Don't Go Where I Can't Follow,'' and in 2012, he won an Ignatz Award for ''Big Questions'', a collected edition of his comic book series. Nilsen is co-founder of Autoptic, a bi-annual festival of independent co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renée French
Renée French (born 1963) is an American comics writer and illustrator and, under the pen name Rainy Dohaney, a children's book author, and exhibiting artist. Her work is characterized by her "obsessive-looking and highly unsettling visual style." Books Her work includes ''H Day'' (Picturebox), ''The Soap Lady'' (inspired by the display in the Mütter Museum) (Top Shelf Productions), ''The Ticking'' (Top Shelf Productions), and ''Micrographica'' (Top Shelf Productions), ''Edison Steelhead's Lost Portfolio: Exploratory Studies of Girls and Rabbits'' ( Sparkplug Books), and ''Marbles in My Underpants'' (Oni Press). She also has a weekly strip ''The Taint'' in the ''New York Press''. Her serialized comic ''Baby Bjornstrand'' appears on the Study Group Comic Books website. ''The New York Times'' said her graphic novels "split the difference between adorable and horrifically gross"; writing about "Baby Bjornstrand", they called it "equal parts Daffy Duck and Samuel Beckett, and al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mat Brinkman
Mat Brinkman (born 1973 in Austin, Texas) is an American artist and electronic musician. Also known as Matt Brinkman, Meerk Puffy, Mystery Brinkman, Brinkman, Brinkmangler, and Mucid Cuspidor. He is based in Colorado. History Brinkman was a co-creator of the ''Fort Thunde''r artist live-work space in Providence, Rhode Island from 1995–2001. He resided in the Providence artist live workspace ''Hilarious Attic'' from 2002–2007. He recorded with the bands Mindflayer and Forcefield, who performed at the 2002 Whitney Biennial. In 2000, his Teratoid Heights comic was published by Highwater Books. Through his anonymous and pseudonymous works, he, like Bruce Conner and Marcel Duchamp Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (, , ; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso ... before him, seems to be concerned with is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
