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Timothy Albee Raised in Michigan, in a family where theatre, music, and art were the paths of choice, animation was the logical route for Albee. A veteran of Walt Disney Feature Animation, broadcast television, syndicated television, commercials and video games, he co-founded two animation studios in the Los Angeles area before taking sabbatical in Fairbanks, Alaska. He is the author of an industry-lauded series of books on filmmaking, animation, and computer graphics. Albee is currently working on the television series, "Battlestar Galactica," as its character animation department. | ||||||
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Jeanne Mars Armstrong Armstrong has been drawing and painting in Fairbanks for many years. She teaches 5th and 6th graders at Barnette Magnet School, and sometimes gets to teach art classes twice a day! When she's not busy hiking and biking with her husband and dogs, she is busy grading papers, or raising ducks, lettuce, and more cartoons. | ||||||
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Jenn Baker Baker first became interested in cartooning and illustration while taking a beginning drawing class at UAF. She has lived in Alaska for 23 years and is a web developer for University Marketing and Publications. | ||||||
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Carl Barks, 1901-2000 Barks was among the most influential cartoonists of the 20th century. He was a famous Disney Studio illustrator and comic book creator, who invented Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck (1947), Gladstone Gander (1948), the Beagle Boys (1951), Gyro Gearloose (1952) and Magica De Spell (1961). The quality of his scripts and drawings earned him the nicknames the Duck Man and the Good Duck Artist. Fellow comic writer Will Eisner called him "the Hans Christian Andersen of comic books." Several of his stories took place in Alaska and the Klondike. | ||||||
Bill Berry, 1926-1979 Berry first came to Alaska in the fifties; he and his family returned in 1961, living near Fairbanks until his death. He had been a cartoonist for Stars and Stripes during World War II, and in Alaska his skill as a wildlife artist soon made him one of the state's most beloved artists. He illustrated several books and authored two: Buffalo Land and Deneki: An Alaskan Moose. | ||||||
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Anna Bongiovanni Bongiovanni is currently attending Minneapolis College of Art and Design where she majors in comic art. She is native to Alaska. | ||||||
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Dee Boyles Boyles is the illustrator of the book Fashion Means Your Fur Hat is Dead, by Mike Doogan. | ||||||
Chad Carpenter Carpenter has been drawing the daily newspaper comic strip "Tundra", for the past 15 years. It currently runs in newspapers throughout Alaska, Canada, and the Lower 48, its publication map stretching from the L.A. Times to the Stamford Advocate in Connecticut. Chad originally got into cartooning to avoid a real job but has since learned the error of his ways. The 13th book of "Tundra" cartoons is due out in early June. | ||||||
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Ian Colvert Colvert is a cartoonist and musician formerly of Yakutat currently on board the NOAA oceanographic vessel Rainier. He is the author of "Alaskan Bush Town." | ||||||
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Gib Crockett, 1912-? Gibson Milton Crockett was the editorial cartoonist for the Washington Star. He won the National Headliners Club Award for Consistently Outstanding Editorial Cartoons in 1953. | ||||||
Louis Dalrymple, 1866-1905 Dalrymple published cartoons and illustrations in Puck magazine. Political cartoons had become so popular by the late nineteenth century that in New York, this weekly magazine was established (ca. 1876-1877), a colored comic paper in the German style with double-page political cartoons by Joseph Keppler, one of its founders, and other artists. | ||||||
J.N. "Ding" Darling, 1876-1962 Jay Norwood “Ding” Darling, from Norwood, Michigan, was a Pulitzer-Prize winning cartoonist. Darling was an important figure in the conservation movement. He drew the design for the first Federal Duck Stamp, and, despite his inexperience, he was appointed by FDR as head of the Bureau of Biological Survey, the forerunner of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He also founded the National Wildlife Federation in 1936 when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt convened the first North American Wildlife Conference. | ||||||
Dan Darrow Darrow is a stay-at-home dad of two and part-time tutor at area elementary schools, and a staff editorial cartoonist for The Ester Republic. | ||||||
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Jessie Desmond Desmond lives in North Pole and is interested in Bangsian fantasy. | ||||||
Sabrina Duarte Duarte recently graduated from North Pole Senior High. | ||||||
Peter Dunlap-Shohl Dunlap-Shohl has been the cartoonist for the Anchorage Daily News for almost 25 years. He produces three editorial cartoons per week, and a variety of animation projects for the paper's website. Prizes include first place in the Society of Professional Journalists 2002 Northwest regional editorial cartoon competition. | ||||||
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Brianna Evanger Evanger was recently accepted into the University of Alaska Fairbanks' BFA program. | ||||||
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John Falk Falk was born in a small town in Oregon where cowboys and pickup trucks were king. He joined the navy to see the world and change his life, and now lives on top of the world in Barrow, Alaska, where he makes a living decorating cakes. He fell in love with a lady from Thailand who asked him to make her laugh on cold winter nights. | |||||
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Chrissy Fanslau Fanslau is an illustrator, writer, and cartoonist working out of her Fairbanks studio. She's a published illustrator of children's books and is currently preparing her Young Adult novel for print. She works daily with a variety of clients and is a member of Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. | |||||
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Robin Feinman Feinman has been drawing her whole life. She has an undergraduate degree in painting and printmaking and a graduate degree in ceramics. She has lived in Fairbanks since high school (West Valley) and has taught drawing and ceramics at the high school and college levels. Most recently she did a week-long Artist in Residence at Chinook Charter School, where the focus was on graphic novels. She has also taught several other comics units at West Valley and Lathrop high schools. | ||
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Daniel R. Fitzpatrick, 1891-1969 Fitzpatrick’s cartoons documented local, state, and national political and social issues. Locally the cartoons covered St. Louis’ mayoral races, public transportation systems, school desegregation, strikes, riverfront memorial plans, Lambert airport, pollution and housing. Through his “Rat Alley” series begun in the 1930s, Fitzpatrick exposed vice and corruption in St. Louis. On state and national issues, Fitzpatrick editorialized on political corruption, social programs, highway projects, labor leaders, labor unions, and World War II. He received the John Frederick Lewis Prize of the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts in 1924 and Pulitzer Prizes in 1926 and 1945. | ||
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Jerry Flu Flu first came to Alaska in 1970, where he taught in Craig for several years in the public school there before going south again. After a year working for Walt Disney Studios, he returned, this time to work at the Anchorage Times as their editorial cartoonist, producing “Alaska Fever” and the strip “Casey’s Office Gang.” | ||
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Jane Hafling Hafling is the author of the book, Haf-Baked Alaska, and co-author of So Was Alaska, with Gerritt Snider. | ||
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Shayna Hawkins Hawkins is the creator of the web comic "Shay-Town." | ||
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Robin Heller Heller is the author of "Mukluk and Honisuckle", a daily strip that appears in many Alaskan and Canadian newspapers. | |||
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Herblock, 1909-2001 Herbert Lawrence Block, was an editorial cartoonist for the who won three Pulitzer Prizes (1942, 1954, 1979) for his work and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1994). He received the National Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award in 1957 and 1960, their Reuben Award in 1956, and their Gold Key Award (the National Cartoonists Society Hall of Fame) in 1979. | |||
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Holland Holland drew several cartoons relating to Alaskan and Hawaiian statehood. | ||
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W.B. Hughes Hughes is the creator of "Spit-Toon Comix", a 1970s underground comic situated on the Homer Spit and featuring characters such as Blatz the Stoned Space Dog and Bonnie Boondocks the Kachemak Wonder Woman. | ||
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Brian Hutton Hutton lives in Anchorage, but grew up in Detroit and lived in various places around the country. He has had a varied career, and is not formally schooled in the arts. | ||
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Ernest F. Jessen, ?-? Jessen was the founder of the Fairbanks newspaper, Jessen's Weekly. | ||
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B. Kliban, 1935-1990 Bernard “Hap” Kliban was an influential cartoonist born in New York. He studied at the Pratt Institute and spent time painting and travelling in Europe before moving to California and settling in San Anselmo, Marin County. In 1962, Kliban became a cartoonist, contributing cartoons until his death. He is best-known for the book , a collection of cartoons about cats drawn in Kliban’s distinctive style. According to Art Spiegelman, Kliban invented the form of cartoon, popularized by Gary Larson and others, of a single panel with a third-person caption describing the action. | |||
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Inari Kylänen Kylänen was born in Finland and currently lives in Fairbanks, Alaska. She spends her time drawing and recently graduated from UAF with a degree in painting. | |||||
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Dave Lasky Lasky is the co-author of "Urban Hipster." | |||||
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Layla Lawlor Lawlor is the author of several graphic novels and comics, two of them published in book form, and of the weekly strip "Freebird," which appears in the Fbx Square. She was born in a log cabin in rural Alaska and grew up thirty miles from towns, roads, electricity, and cars. She has been drawing since the age of five. | |||||
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Chuck Legge Chuck's cartoons are a regular feature of the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman. | |||||
Matt Lehman Lehman is the author of McGee's Alaska. | |||||
John Lodder Lodder is the creator of “Yukon Komix,” an underground, pipeline-era comic. | |||||
Norman Lowell Lowell and his wife operate their gallery on their homestead in Anchor Point. The gallery is described as "a building that counts as one of Alaska's larger art museums" by Frommer's Travel Guides. The gallery showcases his life's work, including immense oils of Alaska landscapes. Frommer's continues: "Although Lowell's work is traditionally representational, many of the paintings carry raw emotions capable of reaching the most cynical viewer." Lowell taught art in Anchorage in the sixties, and published a book, Life on the Homestead, in 1969, which he illustrated with humorous cartoons. | |||||
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Dimi Macheras Macheras has created comic books based on traditional Alaska Native stories: Strong Man, Besiin, Tsaani: A Grizzly Bear Story, and C'eyiige' Hwnax (Magic House). | |||
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Scott McCloud McCloud is an established cartoonist, speaker, and teacher of comics storytelling. He is the author of Understanding Comics and Reinventing Comics, Zot!, and many other comics and books. He will be presenting a workshop on comics June 15 at the Annex as part of his 50-state tour. | |||
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Don L. Milller Miller, from Montclair, New Jersey, was one of the original staff of the Adakian, serving as a cartoonist and portraitist for the paper. He arrived in Adak with an infantry unit in February 1944, joining the paper in April. He was an art student in Newark, New Jersey before the war. | ||
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David Mudrick Mudrick and his family spent a school year in Gakona Junction, Alaska, where he drew "The Bush League" cartoon for the Copper River Country Journal. He collected these into the book, Too Far North: A Northern Cartoon Odyssey, which is now a collector's item. He continues to draw in the Lower 48, posting his strip "Tom Duck and Harry" on his website. | |||
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Mike Nakoneczny Nakoneczny is a painter and cartoonist. He received his MFA at the University of Cincinnati in 1982 and his BFA at Cleveland State University. He is an associate professor at the UAF art department, where he teaches painting. He is represented by Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Inc., in Chicago, Illinois and Grover Thurston Gallery in Seattle, Washington. | ||
Thomas Nast, 1840-1902 Nast is known as “the father of the American political cartoon.” He became the most powerful political cartoonist of his time in America. Nast used his Harper's Weekly cartoons to crusade against New York City’s political boss William Magear Tweed, and he devised the Tammany tiger for this crusade. In 1873, following his successful campaign against New York City’s Tweed Ring, he was billed as “The Prince of Caricaturists” for a lecture tour that lasted seven months. He popularized the elephant to symbolize the Republican Party and the donkey as the symbol for the Democratic Party, and created the “modern” image of Santa Claus. | ||
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Kel Nuttall Born in Fairbanks and raised in North Pole, Nuttall takes full advantage of the reach of the internet in collaborating on comic book projects with creators all over the world. As a letterer he has contributed to books for several well known publishers: Image, Devil's Due, Arcana, and Silent Devil among others. As a writer he continues to create titles such as Black Watch and Nothingface, as well as contributing to anthologies like Digital Webbing Presents and Trailer Park of Terror (soon to be a major motion picture). | |||
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Andrew Paris Paris' strip, "The Tao of Nerdism," appears regularly in the University of Alaska Fairbanks' student newspaper, the SunStar. | |||
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Joseph L. Parrish, 1905-1989 Parrish was the editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Tribune. A native of Tennessee, Parrish began cartooning for the in 1936, and became chief cartoonist in 1963, a post he held until he retired in 1970. He continued to draw, publishing in the Chicago Sun-Times and elsewhere. | |||
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Oliver Pedigo Pedigo was one of the original staff members of the Adakian, joining the paper in March 1944. He was stationed in the Aleutians in October 1942, three months after induction into an Engineer outfit. He moved to Lakewood, Colorado after the war and became an architect and contractor. | ||
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Steve Phelps Phelps started cartooning when he moved to Anchorage in 1982. His first cartoon collection was a collaboration with Larry Kaniut, Instant Sourdough. He is a former Green Beret, a skydiving, Harley rider, and the founding pastor of the ROCK church in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is married and has four grown children. Steve's work has appeared in major periodicals such as Good Housekeeping, TV Guide, Saturday Evening Post, Ebony, Medical Economics and leading Christian magazines and journals such as Leadership, Christianity Today, Youthworker, and hundreds of other publications. His cartoons have illustrated many books and have been in over a dozen collections of cartoons as well. InterVarsity Press published his book All God's Children Got Gum In Their Hair. He teaches skydiving and is finishing his master's degree in counseling. | ||||
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Lee Post Post is the author of "Your Square Life," which is published regularly in the Anchorage Press. Post was born in Anchorage and raised in Palmer. "Your Square Life" started as a 'zine he began when he returned to Alaska from the University of Washington, where he studied psychology and cognitive neuroscience. He lives in Anchorage. | ||||
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Dick Saunders Richard Saunders published the cartoon collection "A Cheechako Sees Alaska" with Jessen's Weekly in 1953. | ||||
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Jolene Schafer-Howell Schafer-Howell published cartoons in The Ester Republic while she was stationed at Eielson Air Force Base. | |||
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Jamie Smith, Curator Jamie (sans beard these days), is the author of three cartoon collections, and has collaborated with several writers on different books. His cartoon strip, "Nuggets", appears inthe Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and the SunStar. He teaches cartooning and drawing classes at UAF, and is the Republic's other staff editorial cartoonist. | |||
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Ben Templesmith Templesmith is an artist and writer most widely known for his work in the American comic book industry where he has received multiple nominations for the industry’s top prize, the Eisner Award. As a comic artist his most notable works have been 30 Days of Night (soon to be a major motion picture) and Fell. His other projects include the critically acclaimed serial Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse, Hatter M, and Singularity 7. He has also worked on the Star Wars, Army of Darkness, Silent Hill and Buffy: The Vampire Slayer properties and produces art and design for music bands, dvds, toys, and film concept work. Templesmith was raised in Western Australia and earned a degree in Design from Curtin University. He currently lives in Perth, Australia. | |||
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Eric Troyer Eric Troyer, 47, has been cartooning for about 15 years. He does occasional editorial cartoons for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and The Ester Republic. A stay-at-home dad, Troyer does freelance writing and editing and is heavily involved in trails issues in the Fairbanks area. He is married and has two children. | ||
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Curtis Vos Vos is the author of Klondike Ho! (a cartoon history of the Klondike Gold Rush for children) and The Yukon Hiking Guide. | |||
Doug Urquhart Doug Urquhart was raised in the Bush. For more than 35 years, he worked all over northern Canada as a prospector in northern Quebec and Ontario, biologist on the arctic islands, conservation officer in Fort Smith and Cambridge Bay, Northwest Territories, weather observer on the Yukon-NWT border, jail guard in Atlin, British Columbia, editorial cartoonist in Whitehorse, Yukon, served as chair of the Yukon Fish and Wildlife Enhancement Trust, and works as an environmental consultant in Yellowknife and the Yukon. Doug lives with his wife, Judi, and children, Robin and Daitlyn, in Whitehorse, Yukon. He is the author of the strip "PAWS" and the books Skookum's North and Eyes of the Husky. | |||
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Mark Wheeler Wheeler is the author of the cartoon-illustrated book Half-Baked Alaska. He produced cartoon maps of Ketchikan, Prince of Wales Island, and other locations, and produced newspaper illustrations and cartoons. He painted actively for thirty years, chiefly watercolors of historic buildings and landscapes, and also murals in acrylic. | ||||
Erica Woodcock Woodcock is a former cartooning student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and published cartoons in The Ester Republic before moving to Massachusetts. | ||||
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William Yanert, 1944 Sergeant Yanert was born in Olschyna, Prussia (Poland) in 1864 and emigrated to the United States about 1881. Immediately upon arrival, he joined the U.S. Army, listing his occupation as “soldier.’ He continued to refer to himself as a soldier for the rest of his life. He first came to Alaska while serving with the 8th Cavalry Regiment. An expert explorer and topographer, several geographic locations were named after him. He and his brother Herman settled along the Yukon River, naming their dwelling place Purgatory, Alaska (thus earning him the moniker of “Cartographer from Hell”), and trapping and carving wood and ivory. Yanert published a book of illustrated verse titled Yukon Breezes in the early 1930s. | ||||
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