Nick Bertozzi is an American comic book

Comic book

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 writer and artist, as well as a commercial illustrator and teacher of cartooning. His series Rubber Necker from Alternative Comics

Alternative Comics (publisher)

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 won the 2003 Harvey Awards for best new talent and best new series. His project, The Salon

The Salon (comics)

The Salon is a graphic novel written and illustrated by Nick Bertozzi. Originally published in installments on the website serializer.net in 2002, it was eventually published in its entirety by St. Martin's Press in April 2007.-Plot:...

(published by St. Martin's Press

St. Martin's Press

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), examines the creation of cubism

Cubism

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 in 1907 Paris

Paris

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 in the context of a fictional murder mystery.

Bertozzi also illustrated Houdini: The Handcuff King (published by Hyperion

Hyperion (publisher)

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), which was written by Jason Lutes

Jason Lutes

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. Bertozzi also publishes two webcomics, Persimmon Cup and Pecan Sandy, as part of the ACT-I-VATE

Act-i-vate

ACT-I-VATE is an American webcomics collective based on an original idea by Dean Haspiel and founded by Haspiel and seven other cartoonists. It started out on the blogging platform Livejournal, but has now moved to its own dedicated website....

 comics blog. His illustration clients include Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon (TV channel)

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 magazine, Spin

Spin (magazine)

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, The New York Times

The New York Times

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, New York Press

New York Press

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, Gourmet

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, Abercrombie & Fitch, and WFMU.

Biography

Bertozzi grew up on the East Side

East Side, Providence, Rhode Island

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 of Providence, Rhode Island

Providence, Rhode Island

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, and in Rehoboth, Massachusetts

Rehoboth, Massachusetts

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, and got his BA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst

University of Massachusetts Amherst

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. He has lived in Madrid

Madrid

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, Philadelphia, and New York City

New York City

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. He is married, with two daughters, and lives in Queens

Queens

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, New York. He teaches cartooning at the School of Visual Arts

School of Visual Arts

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 in Manhattan.

Awards

• 2000, Xeric Grant for Boswash (2000)
• 2000, Ignatz Award for Promising New Talent
• 2002, Emerging Talent of the Year, The Comics Journal
• 2003, Harvey Award
  Harvey Award
  The Harvey Awards, named for writer-artist Harvey Kurtzman and founded by Gary Groth, President of the publisher Fantagraphics, are given for achievement in comic books. The Harveys were created as part of a successor to the Kirby Awards which were discontinued after 1987.The Harvey Awards are...
  
  for Best New Series (Rubber Necker); Harvey Award for Best New Talent

Selected bibliography

• Boswash (2000) published through a grant from the Xeric Foundation
• The Masochists (2001) published by Alternative Comics ISBN 978-1891867033
• Rubber Necker 1-4 (2002–2004) published by Alternative Comics
• The Salon (2007) published by St. Martin's Press ISBN 978-0312354855
• Houdini: The Handcuff King (2007) written by Jason Lutes and published by Hyperion ISBN 978-0786839025
• Stuffed! (2009) written by Glenn Eichler and published by First Second ISBN 978-1596433083
• ACT-I-VATE Primer (2009) published by IDW ISBN 978-1600105289

External links

• Le Sketch: mini-comic with Nick Bertozzi's sketches.