Glenn Head (born May 14, 1958 in Madison, New Jersey) is an American cartoonist and comic book editor living in Brooklyn, New York. His cartooning has a strong surrealist bent and is heavily influenced by 1960s underground comix.[1][2]
| Glenn Head | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 14, 1958 Madison, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist, Artist, Editor |
Much of his work has appeared in comix anthologies, starting with Bad News 1, 2 and 3 (editors Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden) and R. Crumb’s Weirdo magazine (#25). Head was a frequent contributor to the Fantagraphics quarterly comix anthology Zero Zero. His strip “Skateboard Mayhem” was featured in the Simon & Schuster anthology Mind Riot: Coming of Age in Comix.
Glenn Head’s comics and illustrations have appeared in a wide variety of publications, from The Wall Street Journal to Screw. Magazines and newspapers that have published his work include The New York Times, Playboy, New Republic, Sports Illustrated, Pulse Magazine, Advertising Age, Interview, Entertainment Weekly, Mineshaft (magazine), and Nickelodeon Magazine.
Head's solo work includes Avenue D, comix about life on the Lower East Side; two issues of Guttersnipe comix, which combine grunge, surrealism, and autobiography; and a self-published sketchbook character study, Head Shots.
From 2005 to 2010 Head edited and contributed to the Harvey- and Eisner Award-nominated anthology HOTWIRE Comics (three issues). From 2009 to 2015 he created his graphic epic, Chicago. This coming-of-age memoir centers around a starry-eyed 19-year-old with dreams of underground comics glory as he encounters his heroes, faces homelessness, despair, insanity, and somehow survives.
A student of Art Spiegelman at the School of Visual Arts in the early ‘80s (in the environment that created RAW), Head learned how to put comic books together. Head edited and contributed to three issues of Snake Eyes (with co-editor Kaz) and the pulp-crime underground comix anthology Hotwire Comix & Capers (numbers 1, 2 and 3).
Awards
editHis work as an editor garnered the following attention:
- 1992 Harvey Award nomination for Best Anthology for Snake Eyes #2
- 2007 Eisner Award for Best Anthology nomination for Hotwire Comix
- 2007 Harvey Award for Best Anthology nomination for Hotwire Comix
Exhibitions
editHead's fine art has been exhibited in New York and across the country:
- 1993 "Comic Power"[3] (Exit Art, New York City) traveling show
- 1997 "Art and Provocation: Images from Rebels" (Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art)[4]
- 2000 "New York Press Illustrators Show" (CB’s 313 Gallery)
Head’s editorial cartooning appeared in the "Inx" show at Hofstra University.[citation needed]
Bibliography
edit- “How I Spent My Summer on Avenue B” in Bad News #1, 1983, self-published, ASIN: B00H6YCUSS — Bad News was a 1983–1988 comix anthology put together by Art Spiegelman’s SVA independent study class.
- “The Bugs” in Bad News #2, 1984, self-published, ASIN: B004EL5XK8
- “Belinda’s Topless Go-Go Lounge” in Bad News #3, 1988, edited by Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden, Bad News Press/Fantagraphics, ASIN: B004X2X8D2.
- Weirdo #25, 1988, Last Gasp, edited by R. Crumb
- Glenn Head’s Avenue D: Comics & Stories, 1986, self-published, ASIN: B000727IGK
- Avenue D, 1991, Fantagraphics, ASIN: B00396SY4G
- Snake Eyes, 1990, Fantagraphics, ASIN: B009E04P3K, ISBN 1560970588, ISBN 978-1560970583
- Snake Eyes #2, 1992, Fantagraphics, ISBN 1560970758, ISBN 978-1560970750
- Snake Eyes #3, 2001, Fantagraphics, ISBN 1560971258, ISBN 978-1560971252
- Zero Zero #1, 1995, Fantagraphics, ASIN: B002ZD5IGG
- Zero Zero #2, 1995, Fantagraphics, ASIN: B002ZDAYOW
- Zero Zero #3, 1995, Fantagraphics, ASIN: B002ZDBD6A
- Zero Zero #6, 1995, Fantagraphics, ASIN: B002ZDECJU
- Zero Zero #14, 1997, Fantagraphics, ASIN: B00DCHV0OI
- Zero Zero #19, August 1997, Fantagraphics, ASIN: B002ZF17RI
- Zero Zero #20, September/October 1997, Fantagraphics, ASIN: B002ZF8ZX2
- Guttersnipe Comics #1, 1994, Fantagraphics, ASIN: B000PBP9OQ
- Guttersnipe Comix #2, 1996, Fantagraphics, ASIN: B006071WFE
- “Skateboard Mayhem!” in Mind Riot: Coming of Age in Comix, 1997, edited by Karen D. Hirsch ISBN 0689806221, ISBN 978-0689806223
- Dirty Stories Vol. 3, 2002, Fantagraphics, edited by Eric Reynolds
- True Porn #2, 2005, edited by Robyn Chapman
- Best Erotic Comics, 2008, Last Gasp, ISBN 978-0-86719-686-3
- Best Erotic Comics, 2009, Last Gasp, ISBN 978-0-86719-711-2
- Hotwire Comix and Capers Vol. 1, 2006, Fantagraphics, ISBN 1560977280, ISBN 978-1560977285
- Hotwire Comics, Vol. 2, 2008, Fantagraphics, ISBN 1560978910, ISBN 978-1560978916
- Hotwire, Vol. 3, 2010, Fantagraphics, ISBN 1606992880, ISBN 978-1606992883
- Chicago, A Comix Memoir By Glenn Head, 2015, Fantagraphics, ASIN: B014VDFSL2, ISBN 978-1-60699-878-6
References
edit- ^ Hannah Means Shannon (17 August 2015). "'Chicago' Takes Us From Suburbia To The 70's Comics Underground - Glenn Head's Memoir Tells All - Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movie, TV News". Bleedingcool.com. Archived from the original on 2017-02-18. Retrieved 2017-02-17.
- ^ "Glenn Head Looks Back on Starving Artist Desperation in Chicago :: Comics :: Features :: Paste". Pastemagazine.com. Archived from the original on 2017-02-18. Retrieved 2017-02-17.
- ^ Smith, Roberta. "Review/Art; The Comic Underground, Where the Funnies Aren't," Archived 2022-07-24 at the Wayback Machine New York Times (Oct. 8, 1993).
- ^ Paglia, Michael. "Not the Funnies," Archived 2022-07-25 at the Wayback Machine Westword (Sept. 18, 1997).