Brad Guigar

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Brad Guigar is an American cartoonist who is best known for his daily webcomic Greystone Inn and its sequel Evil Inc.

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[edit] Biography

Brad Guigar was the eldest of five children and grew up in Bad Axe, Michigan. He attended Alma College where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree before he moved to Canton, Ohio to work for the newspaper The Repository as a graphic artist and editorial cartoonist. He left The Repository and moved to Akron, Ohio and worked for the Akron Beacon Journal. He currently works at the Philadelphia Daily News and is married with two children.

[edit] Comics

Brad Guigar has published numerous comics both in print and online.

[edit] Greystone Inn

Greystone Inn was a daily webcomic by Brad Guigar. It premiered on the Web on February 14, 2000. Later that year, the strip was added to the Keenspot line-up of webcomics until Brad Guigar moved it to Blank Label Comics in 2005. It currently has 5 compilations in print and is syndicated in 4 newspapers and 1 magazine. In May of 2005, Greystone Inn ended. Several of the characters were spun off to create Evil Inc. (see below).

Greystone Inn gave birth to a spin-off comic created by Brad Guigar called Mondays With Mel, which is currently on hiatus and is no longer available online.

Greystone Inn has had five compilations published by Plan Nine Publishing.

[edit] Courting Disaster

Courting Disaster, is a weekly single panel webcomic about love, sex, and dating. It currently appears every Friday in the Philadelphia Daily News accompanying a sex advice column.

[edit] Phables

Phables is a cartoon about life in Philadelphia which appears bi-weekly in the Philadelphia Daily News. Phables has been nominated for the 2007 Eisner Award for best digital comic.[1]

[edit] Evil Inc.

The Philadelphia Daily News and other papers also publish this daily spin-off comic from Greystone Inn concerning supervillans and superheroes. It also maintains a strong web presence.

[edit] Charitable work

As a member of Alternative Brand Studios, Brad Guigar ran the AltBrand 2002 MDA Webcomic Telethon. It featured over 20 comic artists and raised $850.

As a founding member of Blank Label Comics, Guigar also spearheaded the 2005 Webcomic Telethon for Hurricane Relief that raised an estimed $28,635 for the American Red Cross response to hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

[edit] Everything Cartooning

Everything Cartooning is a website run by Brad Guigar as a place for advice, discussing and job information relating to cartoons. A book called The Everything Cartooning Book was written and illustrated by Brad Guigar. It is published by Adams Media.

[edit] References

  1. ^ The 2007 Eisner Awards: 2007 Master Nominations List. Comic-Con. Retrieved on 2007-04-30.

[edit] External links

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