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Tom Hart is creator of Hutch Owen graphic novels and comic strips, critically acclaimed by The Comics Journal, Time.com, Publishers Weekly and the Library Journal.

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I have been drawing all my life. I teach cartooning someplaces, I also do a large amount of work for a large interactive company. I recently helped promote the new $20 bill for the US Treasury.

Here's what my book copy tends to say:

Tom Hart was born in Kingston, NY and has been drawing cartoons since tracing pictures of Charlie Brown in the second grade.

Tom's won a 1994 Xeric grant for his book, "Hutch Owen's Working Hard", featuring his antagonistic street "bum", Hutch Owen. Two books of Hutch Owen stories to date were by Top Shelf Productions in 2001 and 2004. Hutch Owen was also a daily comic strip published in newspapers in New York and Boston from 2004-2008. Hart's work has has been published in Portuguese, French and Spanish. He also created an original manga for Kodansha Japan called Pitch Unger.

His non-Hutch material includes The Sands, Banks/Eubanks, New Hat, Trunktown, a King Features daily comic strip called Ali's House, and countless mini-comics.

Tom teaches cartooning in New York City where he lives with his wife and fellow cartoonist, Leela Corman.

 

 
Bibliography

Internationally Published and Distributed Works

2011 (pending): Hutch Owen, let's Get Furious!, 380 page collection, Top Shelf Productions, Portland, OR.
2011 (pending): Trunktown, 144 page collection, Alternative Comics, Gainesville, Florida
2011: (pending): She's Not into Poetry; 230 page collection
2009: on hiatus, ALI'S HOUSE, daily comic strip synidcated by King Features
2006-2008, daily Hutch Owen comic strip in Boston and New York City METRO
2005: Unmarketable!, 180 page Hutch Owen collection, Top Shelf Productions, Portland, OR
2003: La Route de la Self, 48 page graphic novella.
La Comedie Illustree, Paris France.
2002-present: Hutch Owen: PUBLIC RELATIONS!, serialization on Modern Tales.com
2002-present: TRUNKTOWN, daily serialization on serializer.net
2001: Hutch Owen: Aristotle, 42 page story. On-line: www.topshelfcomix.com
2000: The Collected Hutch Owen, 176 page graphic novel.
Top Shelf Productions, Portland, OR
(Nominated for Eisner Award, best collection; Harvey Award, best collection; Ignatz Award, best story ("Stocks are Surging!")
2000. Hutch Owen Nouveux Marches, 48 page graphic novella.
La Comedie Illustree, Paris France.
1999: New Hat Stories: Banks/Eubanks, 160
page graphic novel.
Top Shelf Productions, Portland, OR.
1999. Hutch Owen Travaille Dur! 54 page graphic novella.
La Comedie Illustree, Paris France.
1998: The Sands, 182 page graphic novel.
Black Eye Books, Montreal, Canada.
1996-1998: Pitch Unger, 160 page series for Kodansha, Inc.,
Tokyo, Japan.(Publication still pending.)
1995: New Hat, 40 page novella.
Black Eye Books, Montreal, Canada.
1994: Hutch Owen's Working Hard, 56 page graphic novella.
Self-published.
(Awarded 1994 XERIC Foundation grant for self-publishers.)



Self-published Miscellany

1997: Ramadan, 36 pages.
1996: The Ditch, The River..., 24 pages.
1995: The Most Powerful Gate, 24 pages.
1994: Maria, 24 pages.
1994: Love Looks Left, 40 pages.
1993: The Angry Criminal, 16 pages.
1992: Wodaabe Comics, 16 pages.
1991: Prince Fredrick"s Feet, 16 pages.


Grants and Awards

2001: Nominated; Harvey Award, Best Collection for The Collected Hutch Owen
2001: Nominated; Eisner Award, Best Collection for The Collected Hutch Owen
2000: Nominated; Ignatz Award, Best Graphic Novel for Banks/Eubanks
1997: Nominated; Ignatz Award, best new talent.
1994: Awarded, Xeric Foundation Grant for self-publishers.



Anthologies

2002: Rosetta: "Sandra Brown", 3 pages.
2002: Bogus Dead: "Zombies Love Comics"
2002: La Phacochere: "Sandra Brown (French)", 3 pages.
2001: Bizarro Comics: "Kamandi- The Last Band on Earth!" 6 color pages. Written by Nick Bertozzi.
2001: Full color comic page: "What Must Have Happened". Pulse! magazine, Tower Records, Sacramento, California.
2001: La Phacochere: "Pitch Unger: Le Petite Cheval", 12 pages. Paris, France
2001: Stereoscomic: "Pitch Unger: Le Numbre de Telephone", 12 pages. France
2000: USSCatastrophe: "Pitch Unger: Island Story", 12 pages.
WWWeb site, New York, NY
Top Shelf Productions, Portland, Oregon.
1999: Mona: "Hutch Owen: Emerging Markets", 35 pages. Kitchen Sink Press, Northhampton, Massachusetts.
1999 Inker, Monica"s Story, 35 page comic based upon Starr Report on U.S. President Bill Clinton,
Alternative Comics, Gainesville, FL
1999 & 1998 2 full page color comics, Star Wars Kids magazine.
The Fan Club Inc., Denver, Colorado.
1998: SPX Showcase: "Hutch Owen", 4 pages.
SPX Press, Bethesda, Maryland.
1998: Oni Double Feature #8 & 9: "The Body Social", 30 page collaboration
with Jon Lewis.
Oni Press, Portland Oregon.
1998: Burning: "Freedom Night", 5 pages.
Starving Artist Press, Boston, Massachusetts.
1998: Triple Dare: "A Frequent Contributor", 10 pages. Alternative Comics, Gainseville, Florida.
1998: Graphis North America: "Strike Me Down!", 13 pages. Japanese CD ROM.
Tokyo, Japan.
1998: Close to Home, 5 pages adaptation.
WNET web site, New York City, New York.
1997: Quandrano: "New Hat", 7 page Portuguese translation of Top Shelf story.
BDMania, Porto, Portugal.
1997: Coober Skeeber #2: "Devil Dinosaur & Moon Boy", 2 pages.
Highwater Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1997: SPX Showcase: "Special Pills", 2 pages.
SPX Press, Bethesda, Maryland.
1997, Mural, 10" x 7",
Westwood Medical Children"s Center,
White Plains, New York.
1996: One full color comic page: "Brian Eno". Pulse! magazine,
Tower Records, Sacramento, California.
1996: Manga Surprise: "Pitch Unger", 4 page collaboration with Jon Lewis.
Kodansha, Inc, Tokyo Japan.
1996: Morning Open: "Pitch Unger", 2 24 page collaborations with Jon Lewis. Published in Japanese. Kodansha Inc., Tokyo, Japan.
1996: Flying Saucer Attack: one page story. Gaynor Press, St. Louis, Missouri.
1995: Top Shelf #1: "New Hat", 7 pages. Top Shelf Productions, Portland, Oregon.
1995-1997: Weekly illustrator for "I Love Television!" column in Seattle
weekly The Stranger.
Bear Bones Press, Seattle, Washington.


Shows and Miscellany

2001: Comix Decode, featured performer. Reading excerpt from "Emerging Markets"


Reviews and Articles

2003: Career overview in The Comics Journal Winter Special
2001: Numerous Reviews for The Collected Hutch Owen
2000: TheComicStore.com, May 2000. Featured interview.
2000: The Comics Journal # 219. Review of Banks/Eubanks
1998: The Comics Journal #203. Review of Triple Dare.
1998: The Comics Journal #200. Review of Love Looks Left.
1997: Super Black Black #7. Featured interview.
1996: The Comics Journal # Joint overview of Hutch Owen and New Hat.
1995: Comic Buyer"s Guide. Review of Hutch Owen"s Working Hard.
1995: The Comics Journal # Review of New Hat.
1994: The Comics Journal # Review of Hutch Owen's Working Hard.
1996: Destroy All Comics #6. Featured interview.
1997: indy Magazine #19. Featured interview.
1995: indy Magazine # 14. Review of Hutch Owen"s Working Hard.
1996: Cups # 6. Featured interview.
1994: Citizen Vagrom video series. Featured interview.