Ivan Brunetti
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Ivan Brunetti (born Italy, October 3, 1967) is an American cartoonist and comics-author. He specializes in an idiom which initially appears to be merely obsessed with scatology and self-deprecation, but actually reveals, in a backhanded and subtle way, the artist's great sensitivity and intellect. Brunetti works in an eclectic and organic style, switching from Hello Kitty-like graphics to extreme realism. He currently works in Chicago, Illinois.
Brunetti is best known for his comic Schizo, published by Fantagraphics, of which four issues have appeared. He also created the strip "Misery Loves Comedy" for the University of Chicago newspaper The Maroon.
Brunetti has a keen interest in the history and practice of cartooning. In 2005, he curated The Cartoonist's Eye, an exhibit of 75 artists' work, for the A+D Gallery of Columbia College Chicago. He is also the editor of An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories (2006, Yale University Press).
[edit] Bibliography
- Schizo #1 (Fantagraphics, 1995)
- Schizo #2 (Fantagraphics, 1996)
- Schizo #3 (Fantagraphics, 1998; second printing 2003)
- Haw! Horrible, Horrible Cartoons by Ivan Brunetti, (Fantagraphics, 2001)
- Hee! Yet More Horrible Cartoons, (Fantagraphics, 2005)
- Schizo #4 (Fantagraphics, 2006) - won the 2006 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Comic
