COMICS ARE EVERYWHERE: Featured Artists

  JJ Villard graduated from California Institute of the Arts (also known as CalArts) with a degree in Character Animation. Over a three-year period, the artist was the winner of top prizes for international collegiate animation at North America’s most prestigious animation festival in Ottawa, Canada. Close to his graduation from CalArts, Villard’s unique film   Read More …

Born in Shanghai, China in 1983, Danni Shinya Luo moved to California in 1995. She fell in love with art in grade school and she continues to pursue her passion for creativity. After a few years of private study (and an apprenticeship with Chinese watercolor master, Ding Ha), Shinya was accepted into Art Center College   Read More …

Born in 1959, Jaime Hernandez enjoyed a pleasant childhood in Oxnard, California, with four brothers and one sister. Their mother had been an avid comic book fan as a girl, and she passed onto them a love of Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko’s Marvel comics, Hank Ketcham’s (and Owen Fitzgerald’s) Dennis the Menace, and the   Read More …

Daniel Clowes was born in Chicago, Ilinois on April 14, 1961. He attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY from which he graduated with a BFA degree in 1984. He began his career as an “alternative” or “underground” cartoonist in 1985 with the short-lived comic book series Lloyd Llewellyn, a feature loosely based around the   Read More …

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