David Heatley

David Heatley
Born	October 17, 1974 (1974-10-17) (age 37)
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Cartoonist, Penciller
Notable works	Deadpan, My Brain is Hanging Upside Down
Official website

David Heatley (born October 17, 1974) is an American cartoonist, illustrator, graphic designer and musician.

Biography

Education

Born in Teaneck, New Jersey,^[1] Heatley graduated from Teaneck High School in 1993. He graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2000.^[2]

Comics

Though he studied painting and filmmaking at Oberlin, Heatley started drawing comics regularly in the late 1990s. Since then, his comics and illustrations have appeared on the cover of The New Yorker, in The New York Times, McSweeney’s, Mome, and Kramers Ergot, among others. He has been featured three times in the Best American Comics series.^[3] Fantagraphics has published two issues of his solo comic book series, Deadpan, and Pantheon Books released his first full-length book, My Brain is Hanging Upside Down, in September 2008.

Music

Heatley's high school band Velvet Cactus Society released two albums on Shimmy Disc in the early 1990s.

Personal life

David Heatley played the baby Jesus at a Christmas pageant in 1974, months after he was born. A few years later, his family moved to teaneck, NJ, where they became disenchanted with Catholicism and joined an episcopal church which might have had the worst liturgical music in the country. Heatley was confirmed at age 13 and stopped going to church the following year. After a decade and a half of self-destructive behavior, he had a spiritual awakening while visiting California in 2001-about which, more later. Heatley now lives in Jackson heights, NY, with his wife Rebecca Gopoian (an agnostic, Jewish-Armenian poet), and their two awesome children.^[4]

Inspiration

Heatley lists among his influences Daniel Clowes, Gary Panter, Fort Thunder, and Paper Rad.^[5]

Selected works

Books

• My Brain is Hanging Upside Down (Pantheon Books, September, 2008, ISBN 037542539X)

Solo comics

• Deadpan #1 (Fantagraphics)
• Deadpan #2 (Fantagraphics)

Anthology appearances

Publication	Publisher, Date, ISBN	Contribution
Kramers Ergot 4	Gingko Press ISBN 0967798957 ISBN 0980003970
Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue 13	McSweeney's May 14, 2004 ISBN 1932416080	Original printing of "Portrait of My Dad"; a strip on the table of contents page.
Kramers Ergot 5	Gingko Press December 31, 2004 ISBN 1584231726	15-page story: "My Sexual History"
Bête Noire #1	Fantagraphics 2004	cover art
The Education Of A Comics Artist	Allworth Press May 1, 2005 ISBN 1581154089	2-page strip called "How I Became the Cartoonist I am today."
Mome Vol. 1 - Summer 2005	Fantagraphics Books September 12, 2005 ISBN 1560976500	Part 1 of serial comic "Overpeck"
Mome Vol. 2 - Fall 2005	Fantagraphics November 30, 2005 ISBN 1560976845	Part 2 of serial comic "Overpeck"
Mome Vol. 3 - Winter 2006	Fantagraphics April 24, 2006 ISBN 1560976977	Part 3 of serial comic "Overpeck"
Mome Vol. 4 - Spring/Summer 2006	Fantagraphics July 31, 2006 ISBN 1560977264	dream comics
The Best American Comics 2006	Best American October 11, 2006 ISBN 0618718745	"Portrait of My Dad"
Mome Vol. 6 - Winter 2007	Fantagraphics January 16, 2007 ISBN 1560977817	dream comics
Mome Vol. 7 - Spring 2007	Fantagraphics May 22, 2007 ISBN 1560978341	dream comics
The Best American Comics 2007	Best American October 10, 2007 ISBN 0618718761	cover art; 10 pages of dream comics
The Best American Comics 2008	Best American October 8, 2008 ISBN 0618989765
An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories: Volume 2	Yale University Press October 21, 2008 ISBN 0300126719
Kramers Ergot 7	Buenaventura Press November 1, 2008 ISBN 0980003954

References

1. ^ Duin, Steve. "David Heatley", The Oregonian, October 24, 2008. Accessed October 24, 2008.
2. ^ Heatley's Facebook profile. Accessed Feb. 5, 2009.
3. ^ promotional page for Best American Comics 2007
4. ^ http://www.davidheatley.com/bio.php
5. ^ David Heatley's artist page at Drawger

External links

• Official website
• David Heatley's artist page at Drawger
• September 2007 interview on the Inkstuds radio show
• October 2008 interview from Comixology
• Heatley on comics and graphic design
• webcomic based on poem by Diane Wakoski

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