Ivan Brunetti
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Ivan Brunetti (born Italy, October 3, 1967) is an American cartoonist and comics-author based in Chicago, Illinois.
Noted for combining blackly humorous taboo-laden subject matter with simplified and exaggerated cartoon drawing styles, Brunetti's best known comic work is collected in his largely autobiographical series Schizo, of which four issues have appeared between 1995 and 2006. Schizo #4 received the 2006 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Comic of the Year.
He has also produced two collections of gag cartoons, Haw! (2001) and Hee! (2005). He has worked as a illustrator, including at least one cover design for The New Yorker magazine. His early work includes also the strip "Misery Loves Comedy," which he created for the University of Chicago newspaper The Maroon while a student there.
In 2005, Brunetti curated The Cartoonist's Eye, an exhibit of 75 artists' work, for the A+D Gallery of Columbia College Chicago. He is also the editor of An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories (2006, Yale University Press).
[edit] Bibliography
- Schizo #1 (Fantagraphics, 1995)
- Schizo #2 (Fantagraphics, 1996)
- Haw! Horrible, Horrible Cartoons by Ivan Brunetti, (Fantagraphics, 2001)
- 32 Drunks, (Self-published mini-comic, 2001)
- Schizo #3 (Fantagraphics, 1998; second printing 2003)
- Hee! Yet More Horrible Cartoons, (Fantagraphics, 2005)
- Schizo #4 (Fantagraphics, 2006)
- Misery Loves Comedy (Fantagraphics, 2007)
As illustrator:
- David Wilton, Word Myths: Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends, (Oxford University Press, 2004)
