David Heatley (born October 17, 1974) is an American
cartoonist
A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and ...
, illustrator, graphic designer, and musician.
Biography
Education
Born in
Teaneck, New Jersey
Teaneck () is a Township (New Jersey), township in Bergen County, New Jersey, Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is a bedroom community in the New York metropolitan area. As of the 2010 United States census, 2010 U.S. census, th ...
, Heatley graduated from
Teaneck High School
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, district = Teaneck Public Schools
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in 1993. He graduated from the
San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) was a private college of contemporary art in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1871, SFAI was one of the oldest art schools in the United States and the oldest west of the Mississippi River. Approximately ...
in 2000.
Comics
Though he studied painting and filmmaking at
Oberlin College
Oberlin College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio. It is the oldest Mixed-sex education, coeducational liberal arts college in the United S ...
, Heatley started drawing comics regularly in the late 1990s. Since then, his comics and illustrations have appeared on the cover of ''
The New Yorker
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'', in ''
The New York Times
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'', ''
McSweeney’s
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Initially publishing the literary journal'' Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern'', the company has moved to n ...
'', ''
Mome'', and ''
Kramers 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 publishe ...
'', among others. He has been featured three times in the ''
Best American Comics'' series.
Fantagraphics
Fantagraphics (previously Fantagraphics Books) is an American publisher of alternative comics, classic comic strip anthologies, manga, magazines, graphic novels, and the erotic Eros Comix imprint.
History
Founding
Fantagraphics was found ...
has published two issues of his solo comic book series, ''Deadpan'', and
Pantheon Books
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released his first full-length book, ''My Brain is Hanging Upside Down'', in September 2008.
Music
Heatley's high school band Velvet Cactus Society released two albums on
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in the early 1990s. In 2008, he recorded (under his own name) a soundtrack to his graphic novel "My Brain is Hanging Upside Down", featuring a cover of The Ramones song by the same name. The soundtrack was released on WonderSound records.
Personal life
Heatley lives in Jackson Heights, NY, with his wife Rebecca Gopoian (an agnostic, Jewish-Armenian poet) and their two children, Maya and Samuel Heatley.
Inspiration
Heatley lists among his influences
Daniel Clowes
Daniel Gillespie Clowes (; born April 14, 1961) is an American cartoonist, graphic novelist, illustrator, and screenwriter. Most of Clowes's work first appeared in '' Eightball'', a solo anthology comic book series. An ''Eightball'' issue typical ...
,
Gary Panter
Gary Panter (born December 1, 1950) is an American cartoonist, illustrator, painter, designer and part-time musician. Panter's work is representative of the post-Underground comix, underground, new wave comics movement that began with the end of ...
,
Fort Thunder
Fort Thunder (1995–2001) was a warehouse on the second floor of a pre-Civil War former textile factory in the Olneyville district of Providence, Rhode Island. From 1995 through 2001, the space was used as a venue for underground music and events ...
, and
Paper Rad
''Paper Rad'' was an art collective from approx. 2000 until 2008, based on the East Coast in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Providence, Rhode Island. Known for creating comics, zines, video art, net art, MIDI files, paintings, installations, and mu ...
.
David Heatley's artist page at Drawger
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Selected works
Books
''My Brain is Hanging Upside Down''
(Pantheon Books, September, 2008, )
* ''Otis Dooda'', written by Ellen Potter, Feiwel & Friends, 2013
* ''Otis Dooda: Downright Dangerous'', written by Ellen Potter, Feiwel & Friends, 2014
* ''Qualification: A Graphic Memoir in Twelve Steps'', Pantheon, 2019
Solo Comics
* ''Deadpan'' #1 (Fantagraphics)
* ''Deadpan'' #2 (Fantagraphics)
Collaborative Comics
* ''My Home Birth'' by Christen Clifford
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People Surname
* Adolf Christen (1811–1883), court actor, theater director and theater manager
* Andreas Christen (born 1989), footballer from Liechtenstein
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Anthology appearances
References
External links
*
David Heatley's artist page at Drawger
September 2007 interview on the Inkstuds radio show
October 2008 interview from Comixology
Heatley on comics and graphic design
by Diane Wakoski
Diane Wakoski (born August 3, 1937) is an American poet. Wakoski is primarily associated with the deep image poets, as well as the confessional and Beat poets of the 1960s. She received considerable attention in the 1980s for controversial commen ...
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Alternative cartoonists
Underground cartoonists
People from Teaneck, New Jersey
Oberlin College alumni
Teaneck High School alumni
1974 births
Living people