Oliver Gaspirtz

Oliver Gaspirtz, born November 1970 in Aachen, Germany, is a cartoonist and web designer who currently resides in New York with his wife Debbie.

Gaspirtz emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1993, where he worked as art director for a Manhattan-based German-language newspaper. After the publication of his first book, The Truth About Cinderalla in December 1993, Gaspirtz turned to single panel gag cartooning.

His cartoons have appeared in most major magazines across the United States, including the Saturday Evening Post, The National Times, American Legion, National Enquirer, The Sun, and niche magazines such as Physician, The Medical Post, Hippocrates, Nutrition and Health Review, American Police Beat, The Police Officer's Journal, Teacher in Focus, and international humor publications like America's Funny Times, England's Punch, and Germany's Eulenspiegel magazine.

From 1993 to 1997, Gaspirtz was a contributor for King Features' syndicated daily comic strip The New Breed.

In 1997 his book A Treasury of Police Humor was published by Lincoln-Herndon Press, featuring a compilation of law enforcement cartoons he had created for American Police Beat.

In 1998 Lincoln-Herndon Press published his book A Treasury of Pet Humor.

Between 1993 and 1998 Gaspirtz' cartoons were distributed by Deike Press, one of Germany's largest press services, as well as by PR Service Scherlinzky.

Gaspirtz's cartoons can be found in over a dozen books, published in Germany, England, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. Some of them include Chickensoup for the Country Soul, A 5th Portion of Chickensoup for the Soul, and A Treasury of Veterinary Humor.

His work has been on display in over 20 major cartoon exhibitions around the world, including exhibitions in Germany, Belgium, Italy, Turkey, Poland, Lithuania, Iran, Japan, and The United States. The International Museum of Cartoon Art in Boca Raton, The Okhotsk Museum of Cartoon Art in Japan, The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco, The Ludwig Forum (Museum of Modern Art) in Aachen, Germany, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran, Iran, are just a few of the many museums that added his work to their collection.

Oliver Gaspirtz is a member of the National Cartoonists Society, the Comic Art Professionals Society and the National Writers Union & Cartoonists Association. And he is the New York representative for the Australian Cartoonists' Group.

In 2000 he decided to publish his cartoons and comics online for free. Many of his award-winning cartoons can be seen on his homepage at http://www.gaspirtz.com

Gaspirtz is also the inventor of the game Bubble fun. Frustrated by a seemingly endless flood of clones of archetypal games like Pacman, Space Invaders, Tetris, and Asteroids he successfully created a unique game concept that had never been done before.

External links

* [http://www.gaspirtz.com Official Web Site]
* [http://www.gspz.de Official German Web Site] (German)