Lloyd Dangle

Lloyd Dangle [http://www.lloyddangle.com] (born May 13 1961) is a writer and visual artist, particularly known as a cartoonist, illustrator, and political satirist, who lives in Oakland, California.

Troubletown

Troubletown is a syndicated weekly comic strip by Lloyd Dangle. Begun in 1988 at the "San Francisco Bay Guardian", it now runs in many alternative weeklies including "The Stranger" and "The Portland Mercury". It also appears regularly in The Progressive magazine. Most strips involve political satire from a liberal perspective. Several book collections of Troubletown have been published. It is also featured in the anthology "Attitude: The New Subversive Cartoonists."

Dangle is a prolific artist, his cartoons and illustrations have appeared in over one hundred publications "of every kind, from the corporate mainstream to the bleeding, subcommercial edge." Publications include: "Blab!, Cosmopolitan, Entertainment Weekly, Motorbooty, New York Times, Time Magazine, Village Voice, Weirdo", and "Wired". He has also licensed artwork for jigsaw puzzles, candies, and other merchandised products.

Early years

Dangle graduated from Ann Arbor Huron High School in 1979, and attended University of Michigan School of Art and graduated with a BFA in 1983. Editor and contributor to the University of Michigan's Gargoyle Humor Magazine. Notable alumni: playwright Arthur Miller, cartoonist George Lichty, cartoonist Terry LaBan

Artistic Influences

Mad Magazine, Big Daddy Roth, Dr. Seuss, Robert Crumb, Bill Griffith, Basil Wolverton, MK Brown, Mark Marek, Claire Bretecher, and Ralph Steadman. Dangle also cites: "seeing Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, and the Ramones perform over one-hundred times."

Newspaper, Magazine publishing and Film

Dangle worked for filmmaker Michael Moore as a designer, paste-up artist, and cartoonist for the Michigan Voice newspaper in Flint, Michigan (founded and edited by Moore), and has a screen credit in Moore's first movie, Roger and Me, for sound recording. After leaving Michigan in 1983 he moved to New York City and worked for magazines and newspapers including Elle, Manhattan, inc., Nuclear Times, and the Village Voice as a production artist.

Cartoonist for AIDS Awareness

Dangle art directed and contributed to AIDS education efforts particularly for IV drug users, including handbook used in prisons and drug rehab clinics called "The Works," and created a billboard, TV, and print campaign around a superhero, "Bleachman," whose duty was to teach IV drug users to clean their needles at a time when needle exchange programs were illegal in California.

Education and Advocacy for Artists

Dangle served as Northern California Chapter President and National President of the Graphic Artists Guild. He started by organizing education efforts for artists on copyright issues, particularly with the rise of publisher's "all-rights" master contracts in the early 1990's, and was involved with starting a Northern California Chapter of the Guild. Calling themselves the "All-rights Refusniks," Dangle and his fellow Northern California illustrators put on skits and stunts to educate working artists on copyright, contracts, and related business issues.

As Northern California Chapter President and organized a statewide effort to reform California sales tax regulations, which were being inequitably applied to illustrators, photographers, and other visual artists to deny them protections under copyright that other authors enjoyed. Dangle's efforts were bolstered by a concurrent ruling by the California Supreme Court ( Preston v. State Board of Equalization) supporting the Guild's position, eventually leading to a rewrite of the sales tax regulations affecting graphic artists, effectively removing the tax collection burden for California artists selling or licensing rights to reproduce artwork within California

Dangle also lobbied US Congress in favor of the (unsuccessful) Freelance Artists and Writers Self Protection Act, introduced by Sen. John Conyers (MI) in 2002, legislation intended to extend collective bargaining rights to freelance artists and writers negotiating with large media conglomerates.

Books

* Dangle (four issues, comic book series published by Cat-head Comics, and later by Drawn & Quarterly publications).
* Troubletown
* Next Stop: Troubletown, Published by Manic D Press,
* Real Recipes For Casual Cooks, by Lynn Gordon, Published by Random House
* Axis of Trouble, Published by Troubletown Books
* Ten Minute Activist, by The Mission Collective, illustrated by Lloyd Dangle
* Troubletown Told You So, Comics that Could've Saved Us from This Mess, Troubletown Books

Blog

* Troubletown [http://troublogtown.blogspot.com/]