Tom Hart (comics)
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Tom Hart is an American
comics creator best known for his Hutch Owen series of comics
.
, Jason Lutes
, Jon Lewis, and James Sturm
he was an early recipeint of the Xeric Foundation
grant for cartoonists.
His Xeric-winning book, Hutch Owen's Working Hard was 56 pages and self-published in 1994.
His next book, New Hat, was published through Canadian publisher Black Eye Productions
in 1995. Black Eye then published his next book, The Sands, in 1997.
Hart returned to the Hutch Owen series and published a first collection of stories with Top Shelf Productions
in 2000. Later books in the series have also been published by Top Shelf. Time
magazine has called Hutch Owen "A devastating satire [which] feels like a scalding hot poker cauterizing the open wound of American corporate and consumer culture."
Hutch Owen has also been distributed as daily print and webcomic
strips, and Hart is also the former editor of and a current contributor to serializer.net
. One of the original comics on serializer was Trunktown, a Hutch Owen spin-off drawn by Hart and written by Shaenon Garrity. His strip version of Hutch Owen, ran in the Metro newspaper in New York and Boston for a year and a half from 2006-2008.
In 2008 his comic strip collaboration with Margo Dabaie, Ali's House, was bought and syndicated by King Features Syndicate
.
Tom Hart is also an experienced teacher, having taught for more than six years at New York's School of Visual Arts
, Parsons, the Education Alliance, Young Audiences, numerous places across the country and all over New York City
.
He had three books pending in 2010, Let's Get Furious, a collection of all the Hutch Owen comic strips, How to Say Everything, a book about creativity in comics, and She's Not Into Poetry, a collection of his 1990s mini-comics.
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comics creator best known for his Hutch Owen series of comics
Comics
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Career
Tom Hart began making mini-comics while living in Seattle in the early 1990s. Like many of his colleagues including Megan Kelso, Dave LaskyDavid Lasky
David Lasky is an alternative cartoonist based in Seattle, Washington.After spending the bulk of his life in Virginia, and graduating from the College of William & Mary, Lasky moved to Seattle in 1992...
, Jason Lutes
Jason Lutes
Jason Lutes is an American comics creator. His work is mainly historical fiction, but he also works in traditional fiction...
, Jon Lewis, and James Sturm
James Sturm
James Sturm is an American cartoonist, Xeric Award-winner, and co-founder of the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont...
he was an early recipeint of the Xeric Foundation
Xeric Foundation
The Xeric Foundation is a private, nonprofit corporation based in Northampton, Massachusetts, which for twenty years awarded self-publishing grants to comic book creators, as well as qualified charitable and nonprofit organizations...
grant for cartoonists.
His Xeric-winning book, Hutch Owen's Working Hard was 56 pages and self-published in 1994.
His next book, New Hat, was published through Canadian publisher Black Eye Productions
Black Eye Productions
Black Eye Productions was a short-lived but influential Canadian comic book publishing company founded by Michel Vrana...
in 1995. Black Eye then published his next book, The Sands, in 1997.
Hart returned to the Hutch Owen series and published a first collection of stories with Top Shelf Productions
Top Shelf Productions
Top Shelf Productions is an American publishing company founded in 1997, owned and operated by Chris Staros and Brett Warnock and a small staff. The company is based in Marietta, Georgia, Portland, Oregon, and New York City, New York....
in 2000. Later books in the series have also been published by Top Shelf. Time
Time (magazine)
Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...
magazine has called Hutch Owen "A devastating satire [which] feels like a scalding hot poker cauterizing the open wound of American corporate and consumer culture."
Hutch Owen has also been distributed as daily print and webcomic
Webcomic
Webcomics, online comics, or Internet comics are comics published on a website. While many are published exclusively on the web, others are also published in magazines, newspapers or often in self-published books....
strips, and Hart is also the former editor of and a current contributor to serializer.net
Serializer
serializer.net is a website featuring many free and subscription-based alternative comics created especially for the web. It was launched in October 2002 by Publisher Joey Manley, Editor Tom Hart, and approximately 20 professional cartoonists...
. One of the original comics on serializer was Trunktown, a Hutch Owen spin-off drawn by Hart and written by Shaenon Garrity. His strip version of Hutch Owen, ran in the Metro newspaper in New York and Boston for a year and a half from 2006-2008.
In 2008 his comic strip collaboration with Margo Dabaie, Ali's House, was bought and syndicated by King Features Syndicate
King Features Syndicate
King Features Syndicate, a print syndication company owned by The Hearst Corporation, distributes about 150 comic strips, newspaper columns, editorial cartoons, puzzles and games to nearly 5000 newspapers worldwide...
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Tom Hart is also an experienced teacher, having taught for more than six years at New York's School of Visual Arts
School of Visual Arts
The School of Visual Arts , is a proprietary art school located in Manhattan, New York City, and is widely considered to be one of the leading art schools in the United States. It was established in 1947 by co-founders Silas H. Rhodes and Burne Hogarth as the Cartoonists and Illustrators School and...
, Parsons, the Education Alliance, Young Audiences, numerous places across the country and all over New York City
New York City
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He had three books pending in 2010, Let's Get Furious, a collection of all the Hutch Owen comic strips, How to Say Everything, a book about creativity in comics, and She's Not Into Poetry, a collection of his 1990s mini-comics.