Mike Dawson

"For the football player of the same name see Mike Dawson (football player)."

Mike Dawson (born 1975) is an American cartoonist. He was born in England, and emigrated to the United States in 1986, where his family settled in Red Bank, New Jersey. He studied painting at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.

During college Mike took on the job of writing and drawing a daily comic strip for the college newspaper The Daily Targum, and also began self-publishing comics and attending small-press events. In 2002 he began the humor series Gabagool!, with co-writer Chris Radtke, which ran for six issues.

Since 2005 his work has appeared in a number of comics anthologies, including AdHouse Books successful collection, and issue #1 of the spin-off series, Superior Showcase. His first graphic novel, entitled "Freddie & Me", an epic and unabashedly autobiographical story about his lifelong obsession with Freddie Mercury and the rock band Queen, was published in 2008 by Bloomsbury in the USA and Jonathan Cape in Great Britain.

Mike is part of a loosely associated comics collective called "The Ink Panthers", along with Alex Robinson, Tony Consiglio and a few others.

Graphic Novels

* "Freddie & Me - A Coming of Age (Bohemian) Rhapsody" (2008)

Anthology Credits

* "House of Twelve #4" (2007) House of Twelve
* "Superior Showcase #1" (2006), with Dean Trippe, Nick Bertozzi, & Hope Larson. AdHouse Books
* "True Porn Vol. 2" (2005) Alternative Comics
* "You Ain’t No Dancer" (2005) New Reliable Press
* "" (2005) AdHouse Books
* "SPX Anthology" (2003) Published by the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund

Awards

* Day Prize Nomination for "Guitar Solo" mini-comic (2006)
* Ignatz Award Nomination for Promising New Talent (2002)

External links

* [http://www.mikedawsoncomics.com MikeDawsonComics] Official Website
* [http://www.thecomicforums.com/forum2//index.php?s=e560dc1799a40f74fa4828a39c0837a1&showtopic=137142 Indie Spinner Rack] 2008 audio interview with Indie Spinner Rack
* [http://blogs.usatoday.com/popcandy/2008/05/podcast-a-glimp.html PopCandy] 2008 audio interview at PopCandy, with Whitney Matheson
* [http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/cr_sunday_interview_mike_dawson/ Comics Reporter] 2008 interview at The Comics Reporter
* [http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/06/12/192714.php BlogCritics] 2008 conversation with Mike at BlogCritics Magazine
* [http://www.popthought.com/display_column.asp?DAID=1081 Pop Thought] Interview conducted by Alex Ness
* [http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=36&t=000299 The Pulse] Interview conducted by Jen Contino
* [http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?p=1987395 Your Indy Weekly] Gabagool! reviewed at Newsarama