Glenn Head

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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 comics.^[1][2]

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). Glenn 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’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 Glenn edited and contributed to the Harvey and Eisner-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 for Visual Art in the early ‘80s (in the environment that created RAW), Head learned how to put comic books together. Glenn edited and contributed to three issues of Snake Eyes (with co-editor Kaz) and the pulp-crime Underground comix anthology Hotwire Comix & Capers (Nos. 1, 2 and 3). His work as an editor garnered the following attention: Snakes Eyes #2 was nominated for Harvey awards in 1992; Hotwire Comix was nominated for the 2007 Eisner Award for Best Anthology as well as the 2007 Harvey Award for Best Anthology.

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, and Nickelodeon Magazine.

Glenn’s fine art has been exhibited in New York and across the country: Exit Art’s travelling cartoon art show, “Comic Power”; “Art and Provocation: Images from Rebels” at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and “New York Press Illustrators at CB’s 313 Gallery. Head’s editorial cartooning appeared in the Inx show at Hofstra University.

Bibliography[]

Chicago, A Comix Memoir By Glenn Head, 2015, Fantagraphics, ASIN: B014VDFSL2, ISBN 978-1-60699-878-6

Bad News #1, 1983, self-published, ASIN: B00H6YCUSS. Bad News was a 1983 – 1988 comix anthology put together by Art Spiegelman’s S.V.A. independent study class. “How I Spent My Summer on Avenue B”

Bad News #2, 1984, self-published, ASIN: B004EL5XK8 . “The Bugs”

Bad News #3, 1988, edited by Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden, Bad News Press/Fantagraphics, ASIN: B004X2X8D2. “Belinda’s Topless Go-Go Lounge”

Wierdo #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 No. 2, 1992, Fantagraphics, ISBN 1560970758, ISBN 978-1560970750

Snake Eyes No. 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

Mind Riot: Coming of Age in Comix, 1997, edited by Karen D. Hirsch, “Skateboard Mayhem!”, 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

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