- Craig Yoe
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Craig Yoe (b. February 23, 1951) is an author, editor, art director, graphic designer, cartoonist and comics historian, best known for his Yoe! Studio creations and his line of Yoe! Books. Publishers Weekly labeled Yoe a "comics archaeologist" because of the sometimes forgotten, obscure or hard-to-find comic strips and comic books he has unearthed for his meticulous restorations and hardcover reprints. The Yoe! Studio is located in Peekskill, New York.
Born in Des Moines, Iowa, Yoe attended Firestone High School in Akron, Ohio and the University of Akron before dropping out to concentrate on counter-cultural activities and the anti-war movement. Early in his career, Yoe was senior designer at Marvin Glass & Associates, where he worked on Cabbage Patch Kids and My Little Pony toys. Recruited by Jim Henson, Yoe became the creative director and general manager of the Muppets, working on everything from theme parks to television shows. After Henson's death, Yoe opened his own company, the Yoe! Studio, creating publications, style guides, packaging, press kits, logos and toys. The Yoe! Studio client list includes Kellogg’s, Disney, Nickelodeon, Marvel and DC Comics. Clizia Gussoni is Yoe's business partner and the co-creative director of Yoe! Studio.
Yoe also handles The Adventures of Big Boy comic book, distributed to Big Boy Restaurants, as he discussed with Steven Heller:
- We produce everything from start to finish. We interview celebrities from Britney Spears (when she was more wholesome, remember?) to SpongeBob SquarePants. We produce the comic stories that are still the heart of the publication. Luke McDonnell, another Marvel graduate, is our staff artist at Yoe! Studio. Luke is an incredible visual storyteller who gives Big Boy and friends a delightful modern flair. We get freelance writers Craig Boldman and Bob Supina to do the scripts. When she has time, my business partner, Clizia Gussoni, pens some of the stories with her own magic. It goes from our printer right to the warehouse that houses all the food and napkins, then is trucked to the individual restaurants across the country. The kids love ’em. We get many enthusiastic letters and incredible drawings of Big Boy that we include in each issue.[1]
Contents
Books
Yoe followed The Art of Mickey Mouse (Rizzoli, 1991) with books for several different publishers: The Mighty Big Book of Optical Illusions (Price Stern Sloan, 2002), Clean Cartoonists’ Dirty Drawings (Last Gasp, 2007), Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman’s Co-creator Joe Shuster (Abrams, 2009), The Great Anti-War Cartoons (Fantagraphics, 2009), Boody (Fantagraphics, 2009) and Krazy Kat & the Art of George Herriman: A Celebration (Abrams, 2011).[2]
Yoe! Books/IDW
In 2010, Yoe launched his own imprint, Yoe! Books, with IDW.
- The Art of Ditko (January 2010)
- The Complete Milt Gross Comic Books and Life Story (February 2010)
- Dan DeCarlo's Jetta (March 2010)
- The Golden Collection of Klassic Krazy Kool Kids Komics (April 2010)
- Felix the Cat’s Greatest Comic Book Tails (August 2010)
- Dick Briefer's Frankenstein (October 2010)
- Barney Google: Gambling, Horse Races & High-Toned Women (October 2010)
- The Great Treasury of Christmas Comic Book Stories (November 2010)
- Popeye: The Great Comic Book Tales by Bud Sagendorf (February 2011)
- Krazy & Ignatz in Tiger Tea (April 2011)
- Archie: A Celebration of America's Favorite Teenagers (May 2011)
- Archie's Madhouse (August 2011)
- Amazing 3-D Comics! (August 2011)
- Barks' Bear Book (September 2011)
- Bob Powell's Terror: The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics (November 2011)
Awards
Yoe has won an Eisner Award and the Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators.
References
External links
Categories:- American editors
- American historians
- American non-fiction writers
- American publishers
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