Tom Hart
Tom's website: "It's so accurately dead-on that it's scary... an amazing character... his refusal to become another interchangable part in society's machine is believable, amusing, and intensely applicable at the same time." "The tales in this collection ... mix slapstick and verbal humor to create high-level social satire." " Tom Hart's roguish little conscience character makes for a stimulating acid against our base corporate culture. Short, ugly and abrasive, Hutch Owen is the anti-Pillsbury Dough Boy. Punch his tummy and he'll punch you back." -Time.com |
Born in Kingston, NY, Tom lived in numerous American cities including Austin, Seattle, Gainsville (FL), and Boston, and the Moroccan city of Meknes, while developing his surly hobo who hassles corporations. Tom Hart has been a popular underground/alternative cartoonist since the early 90s. He published the first Hutch Owen as one of the earliest recipients of the Xeric Foundation grant for self-publishing cartoonists, a foundation created by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle co-creator Peter Laird. He has released numerous books to critical and audience acclaim, and has been nominated for two industry "Ignatz" awards and also for the "Eisner" and "Harvey" awards. He has created a series, Pitch Unger, for a publisher in Japan, has been translated into French and Portuguese, and has had his work shown in show from Seattle, Washington to Porto, Portugal to Lubjiana, Slovenia. Tom Hart teaches cartooning all over the New York City area and has also worked in public relations for 4 years, creating many materials for large-scale advertising and PR campaigns.
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Tom Hart is the creator of the comic book series Hutch Owen, described as "Peanuts for the Post-Enron Generation." 
