Hans Rickheit
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Hans Rickheit (January 12, 1973) is an American cartoonist. Originally a resident of Ashburnham, Massachusetts, Rickheit originally self-published digest-sized comics which presenting dark, surreal vignettes and short stories, many of them directly inspired by dreams. He also produced short films. Rickheit followed these up with a longer work, Kill, Kill, Kill, In the late 1990s, Rickheit moved to the Boston area where he associated himself with the Zeitgeist Gallery located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. With the assistance of the gallery's owner, Alan Nidle, he started a publication the shortlived publication Cambridge Inferno for more general audiences as a vehicle to showcase local cartoonists. In 2001, he self-published the first edition of his original graphic novel, Chloe. A Xeric Foundation grant enabled him to produce a second and revised trade paperback edition of Chloe which received wider distribution and favorable reviews by the comics press. In 2003, Rickheit produced a color wraparound cover for the zine, The Comics Interpreter, which in that issue also published a long interview with him. More recently, Rickheit has had short stories published in a variety of small press comics anthologies and periodicals and in the The Stranger weekly.
Now re-located to Philadelphia, in the Rickheit still releases the occasional issue of Chrome Fetus, his showcase for his own shorter works, and makes performance art and plays music with Katt Hernandez as the character "Doctor Selenium". He has embarked upon a new graphic novel entitled The Squirrel Machine, scheduled for publication by Fantagraphics Books.
