David Heatley
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David Heatley is an American cartoonist
, illustrator, graphic designer and musician.
, Heatley graduated from Teaneck High School in 1993. He graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute
in 2000.
, in The New York Times
, McSweeney’s, Mome
, and Kramers Ergot
, among others. He has been featured three times in the Best American Comics series. Fantagraphics has published two issues of his solo comic book series, Deadpan, and Pantheon Books
released his first full-length book, My Brain is Hanging Upside Down, in September 2008.
in the early 1990s.
, Gary Panter
, Fort Thunder
, and Paper Rad
.
Cartoonist
A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...
, illustrator, graphic designer and musician.
Education
Born in Teaneck, New JerseyTeaneck, New Jersey
Teaneck is a township in Bergen County, New Jersey, and a suburb in the New York metropolitan area. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township population was 39,776, making it the second-most populous among the 70 municipalities in Bergen County....
, Heatley graduated from Teaneck High School in 1993. He graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco Art Institute is a school of higher education in contemporary art with the main campus in the Russian Hill district of San Francisco, California. Its graduate center is in the Dogpatch neighborhood. The private, non-profit institution is accredited by WASC and is a member of the...
in 2000.
Comics
Though he studied painting and filmmaking at Oberlin, Heatley started drawing comics regularly in the late 1990s. Since then, his comics and illustrations have appeared on the cover of The New YorkerThe New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
, in The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
, McSweeney’s, Mome
MOME (Comics)
Mome was a quarterly full-color comics anthology edited by Eric Reynolds , and published by Fantagraphics Books....
, and Kramers Ergot
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...
, among others. He has been featured three times in the Best American Comics series. Fantagraphics has published two issues of his solo comic book series, Deadpan, and Pantheon Books
Pantheon Books
Pantheon Books is an American imprint with editorial independence that is part of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.The current editor-in-chief at Pantheon Books is Dan Frank.-Overview:...
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 Shimmy DiscShimmy Disc
Shimmy Disc was an influential New York City based record label founded in 1987 by Mark Kramer. Before it was sold to the Knitting Factory, it was responsible for providing a mass audience for acts including Bongwater, Daniel Johnston, Fly Ashtray, Galaxie 500, King Missile, Boredoms, Ruins, Ween,...
in the early 1990s.
Personal life
David Heatley played the baby Jesus at a Christmas pageant in 1974, months after he was born. A few years later, his family moved to teaneck, NJ, where they became disenchanted with Catholicism and joined an episcopal church which might have had the worst liturgical music in the country. Heatley was confirmed at age 13 and stopped going to church the following year. After a decade and a half of self-destructive behavior, he had a spiritual awakening while visiting California in 2001-about which, more later. Heatley now lives in Jackson heights, NY, with his wife Rebecca Gopoian (an agnostic, Jewish-Armenian poet), and their two awesome children.Inspiration
Heatley lists among his influences Daniel ClowesDaniel Clowes
Daniel Gillespie Clowes is an American author, screenwriter and cartoonist of alternative comic books....
, Gary Panter
Gary Panter
Gary Panter is an illustrator, painter, designer and part-time musician. Panter's work is representative of the post-underground, new wave comics movement that began with the end of Arcade: The Comics Revue and the initiation of RAW, one of the second generation in American underground comix...
, Fort Thunder
Fort Thunder
Fort Thunder 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, as well as a living and working space for the artists...
, and Paper Rad
Paper Rad
Paper Rad is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania/Providence, Rhode Island art collective that makes comics, zines, video art, net art, MIDI files, paintings, installations, and are in a variety of bands...
.
Books
- My Brain is Hanging Upside Down (Pantheon Books, September, 2008, ISBN 037542539X)
Anthology appearances
| Publication | Publisher, Date, ISBN |
Contribution |
|---|---|---|
| Kramers Ergot 4 | Gingko Press ISBN 0967798957 ISBN 0980003970 |
|
| Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern is a literary journal, first published in 1998, edited by Dave Eggers. The first issue featured only works rejected by other magazines, but thereafter the journal began to include pieces written with McSweeney's in mind. McSweeney’s has since published works by... Issue 13 |
McSweeney's May 14, 2004 ISBN 1932416080 |
Original printing of "Portrait of My Dad"; a strip on the table of contents page. |
| Kramers Ergot 5 | Gingko Press December 31, 2004 ISBN 1584231726 |
15-page story: "My Sexual History" |
| Bête Noire #1 | Fantagraphics 2004 |
cover art |
| The Education Of A Comics Artist | Allworth Press May 1, 2005 ISBN 1581154089 |
2-page strip called "How I Became the Cartoonist I am today." |
| Mome Vol. 1 - Summer 2005 | Fantagraphics Books September 12, 2005 ISBN 1560976500 |
Part 1 of serial comic "Overpeck" |
| Mome Vol. 2 - Fall 2005 | Fantagraphics November 30, 2005 ISBN 1560976845 |
Part 2 of serial comic "Overpeck" |
| Mome Vol. 3 - Winter 2006 | Fantagraphics April 24, 2006 ISBN 1560976977 |
Part 3 of serial comic "Overpeck" |
| Mome Vol. 4 - Spring/Summer 2006 | Fantagraphics July 31, 2006 ISBN 1560977264 |
dream comics |
| The Best American Comics 2006 | Best American October 11, 2006 ISBN 0618718745 |
"Portrait of My Dad" |
| Mome Vol. 6 - Winter 2007 | Fantagraphics January 16, 2007 ISBN 1560977817 |
dream comics |
| Mome Vol. 7 - Spring 2007 | Fantagraphics May 22, 2007 ISBN 1560978341 |
dream comics |
| The Best American Comics 2007 | Best American October 10, 2007 ISBN 0618718761 |
cover art; 10 pages of dream comics |
| The Best American Comics 2008 | Best American October 8, 2008 ISBN 0618989765 |
|
| An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories: Volume 2 | Yale University Press October 21, 2008 ISBN 0300126719 |
|
| Kramers Ergot 7 | Buenaventura Press November 1, 2008 ISBN 0980003954 |
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
- http://www.poetryfoundation.org/dispatches/dispatches.feature.html?id=179224webcomic based on poem by Diane WakoskiDiane WakoskiDiane Wakoski is a American poet who is primarily associated with the deep image poets, as well as the confessional and Beat poets of the 1960s.-Biography:...
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