Tom Hart (born October 8, 1969) is an

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comics creator developed specialized terminology. Some several attempts have been made to formalize and define the terminology of comics by authors such as Will Eisner, Scott McCloud, R. C. Harvey and Dylan Horrocks. Much of the terminology in English is un ...

best known for his ''Hutch Owen'' series of

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Career

Tom Hart began making mini-comics while living in Seattle in the early 1990s. Like many of his colleagues including Megan Kelso, Dave Lasky, Jason Lutes, Jon Lewis, and

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he was an early recipient of the

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grant for cartoonists. His Xeric-winning book, ''Hutch Owen's Working Hard'' was 56 pages and self-published in 1994. His next book, ''New Hat'', was published through Canadian publisher

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in 1995. Black Eye then published his next book, ''The Sands'', in 1997. Hart returned to the Hutch Owen series and published a first collection of stories with Top Shelf Productions in 2000. Later books in the series have also been published by Top Shelf. ''

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'' magazine has called ''Hutch Owen'' "A devastating satire hichfeels like a scalding hot poker cauterizing the open wound of American corporate and consumer culture." ''Hutch Owen'' has also been distributed as daily print and

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strips, and Hart is a former editor of and contributor to

serializer.net Serializer.net was a webcomic subscription service and artist collective published by Joey Manley and edited by Tom Hart and Eric Millikin that existed from 2002 to 2013. Designed to showcase artistic alternative webcomics using the unique natu ...

. One of the original comics on serializer was ''Trunktown'', a Hutch Owen spin-off drawn by Hart and written by

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. His strip version of ''Hutch Owen'', ran in the ''Metro'' newspaper in New York and Boston for a year and a half from 2006-2008. In 2008 his comic strip collaboration with Marguerite Dabaie, ''Ali's House'', was bought and syndicated by

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. The strip is now archived at

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. Tom Hart is also an experienced teacher, having taught for more than six years at New York's School of Visual Arts, Parsons, the Education Alliance, Young Audiences, numerous places across the country and all over

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. He had three books pending in 2010, ''Let's Get Furious'', a collection of all the Hutch Owen comic strips, ''How to Say Everything'', a book about creativity in comics, and ''She's Not Into Poetry'', a collection of his 1990s mini-comics. In 2012 he published ''Daddy Lightning'', about his experiences as a father. In January 2016 he published ''Rosalie Lightning'', a memoir named after his daughter, who had died suddenly when she was almost two, and about his and his wife's grief and their attempts to make sense of their life afterwards.

Personal life

Hart is married to fellow cartoonist

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External links

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HutchOwen.com
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