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A LOOK BACK AT APE 2006
APE 2006
Special Guests
APE continues to invite some of the best and cutting-edge cartoonists
in the industry. Our 2006 special guests were as diverse as their
bodies of work. They included a "local hero;" a creator at the top of
his graphic novel form; and a talent exploding in the comics world
with her comic adaptation of a popular series of mainstream kids' books.
Justin Green
Best known for his classic Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary, Justin
Green is one of the great underground comix artists. His work appeared in
numerous underground anthologies including Arcade, Bijou Funnies and
Young Lust. His popular series of “Music Legends” strips, originally
appearing in Tower Records’ Pulse Magazine, has been collected into book
form by Last Gasp.
Keith Knight
Wildly popular Bay area cartoonist Keith Knight just celebrated the
10th anniversary of his strip The K Chronicles. Collected in 4
different books, Keith has also published Red, White, Black & Blue,
featuring his single-panel strips, a (th)ink anthology, and most
recently, The Beginner's Guide to Community-Based Art. He is also
a regular contributor to ESPN Magazine and his work has appeared
in that stalwart of parody and satire, Mad Magazine.
Black Olive
Black Olive slinked on to the comic scene in 2003 with her first series,
Outlook: Grim, published by Slave Labor Graphics. Her new book will
be hitting shelves this July and promises to terrify and delight. She is
also a contributing artist in the Haunted Mansion and Strange Eggs
series. When not writing, drawing, and inking the 24-page monster from cover
to cover, she spends most of her time scaring small children with bedtime
stories involving mink stoles. She is weary of electrical appliances that
turn on by themselves (especially when they are unplugged), and likes to read
"true encounter" ghost stories peeps email to her.
Courtesy SLG Publishing.
Alex Robinson
Alex Robinson's Eisner Award-winning turn on Box Office Poison
positioned him as one of the new indy creators to watch, and his latest
graphic novel, Tricked, proves he's got what it takes! This
massive new book debuted to great sales and critical raves, and he'll
be on hand for all the APE festivities.
Raina Telgemeier
Cartoonist Raina Telgemeier has received rave reviews for her minicomic
Takeout and her online strip Smile. She has been nominated
for numerous awards, including a 2005 Eisner Award for Talent Deserving
of Wider Recognition, nominations for SPX's Ignatz Awards for Most
Promising New Talent and Best Minicomic, and the Friends of Lulu's Kim Yale
Award for Best New Talent of 2003. Her first major work, a comics adaptation
of the popular book series The Baby-Sitters Club, debuts in the spring
from Scholastic Books' Graphix line.
C. Tyler
Carol Tyler has been a professional (and highly acclaimed) cartoonist for over
20 years, appearing in Robert Crumb's Weirdo, Wimmen's Comix, and
Drawn & Quarterly magazine. Her latest work, Late Bloomer,
from Fantagraphics Books, marks the return of the cartoonist and proves that
she's still one of the most skillful, caustic, and emphatic cartoon storytellers
of her generation.
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