- Tom Hart (comics)
Tom Hart (b. 1969,
Kingston, New York ) is an American comics creator best known for his "Hutch Owen" series ofcomics . "Hutch Owen" was originally self-published by Hart (funded with money from a 1993Xeric Foundation grant) through Canadian publisherBlack Eye Productions . Later editions, as well as later books in the series, have been published byTop Shelf Productions . TIME magazine has called "Hutch Owen" "A devastating satire [which] feels like a scalding hot poker cauterizing the open wound of American corporate and consumer culture."Tom Hart is also an experienced teacher, having taught for more than six years at New York's
School of Visual Arts , Parsons, the Education Alliance, Young Audiences, numerous places across the country and all over New York City."Hutch Owen" has also been distributed as daily
webcomic strips, and Hart is also the former editor of and a current contributor to serializer.com. One of the original comics on serializer was "Trunktown", a Hutch Owen spin-off drawn by Hart and written byShaenon Garrity . His current serializer comic is the strip version of Hutch Owen, which also runs in newspapers in New York and Boston.References
* Arnold, Andrew (January 20, 2005). " [http://www.time.com/time/columnist/arnold/article/0,9565,1018964,00.html I Moved Your Damn Cheese!] ". "TIME",
* Spurgeon, Tom (Winter 2002). "Working Hard: The Comics of Tom Hart". "Comics Journal Winter Special 2002", p. 67.
* Jebens, Harley (August 26, 1996). "No laughing matter; Exhibits, grants take comic art seriously". "Austin American-Statesman", p. E1.
* MacDonald, Heidi (December 19, 2005). "Web Comics: Page Clickers to Page Turners; It's like manga five or six years ago". "Publishers Weekly", p. 24.
* Wood, Mariko (March 2003). "Download: Good Comics and Baud Web Comics". "The Comics Journal", No. 251, p. 38.
* Fitzgerald, Leah (September 2003), " [http://comixtalk.com/a_cartoonist_couple_quizzed_leah_fitzgerald_chats_up_tom_hart_and_leela_corman A Cartoonist Couple Quizzed: Leah Fitzgerald Chats Up Tom Hart and Leela Corman] ". "ComixTALK",External links
* [http://www.tomhart.net TomHart.Net]
* [http://www.hutchowen.com HutchOwen.com]
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