Dave Lapp is a cartoonist who lives in

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, Canada.Neil Gaiman, ed., The Best American Comics 2010 (Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010), 322 He worked at a city

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, but has been creating alternative comics for more than ten years.

Works

His ''Drop-In'' was nominated for the category of Outstanding Graphic Novel at the 2009

Ignatz Awards The Ignatz Awards recognize outstanding achievements in comics and cartooning by small press creators or creator-owned projects published by larger publishers. They have been awarded each year at the Small Press Expo since 1997, only skipping a ...

"2009 Ignatz Award Recipients , Small Press Expo" http://www.spxpo.com/2009-ignatz-award-recipients, retrieved on June 12, 2011 and for Best Book at the same year's

Doug Wright Award The Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning (established in December 2004) are literary awards handed out annually since 2005 during the Toronto Comic Arts Festival to Canadian cartoonists honouring excellence in comics (including webcomics) ...

s.Mark Medley, "Finalists for the 2009 Doug Wright Awards announced," ''The Afterword'' (''National Post'' books blog), March 17, 2009, http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/afterword/archive/2009/03/17/finalists-for-the-2009-doug-wright-awards-announced.aspx An excerpt from ''Drop-In'' was also chosen for the anthology ''The Best American Comics 2010''. Lapp writes the newspaper strip ''Children of the Atom'' for '' The Georgia Straight'' which has been published as a collection by Conundrum Press.Gavin Lees, "Children of the Atom," ''The Comics Journal'', July 7, 2010. http://classic.tcj.com/alternative/children-of-the-atom-by-dave-lapp/

References

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