Mark Newgarden

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Mark Newgarden is an American underground cartoonist born in Brooklyn in 1959. His work has appeared widely and his influential shape-shifting weekly feature Mark Newgarden which appeared in alternative weekly newspapers like New York Presscreated a cult following for the artist. Newgarden's work has appeared in a diverse array of venues from the pivotal avant-garde comics album Raw to the NY Times op-ed page. His work has also graced the walls (and screens) of the Smithsonian Institute, the Cooper-Hewitt, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Television and Radio and the ICA in London. In 1992 Mark was designated as one of Entertainment Weekly's annual "Faces to Watch".He served as a creative consultant for the Topps Co. from 1983-1994 and was instrumental in creating the enormously popular Garbage Pail Kids . For Topps he also edited the Wacky Packages in 1991 as well as scores of other satiric and novelty products. Equally recognized for words as well as pictures, Mark has become increasingly active in TV, film & multimedia projects over the years. He has produced, conceived, scripted and designed programming for such entertainment megaliths as Nickelodeon & The Cartoon Network as well as interactive media for Microsoft Corp, Packard-Bell and others.In 1999 the cartoonist completed writing and directing 4 groundbreaking episodes of "B. Happy" the first of the experimental " Web Premiere Toons" for Cartoonnetwork.com. His recent picture history of the practical joke and novelty industry; Cheap Laffs; was published by Harry S. Abrams in Fall, 2004 and We All Die Alone; a monograph collection of his comics and stories was released from Fantagraphics Books in 2006. His latest book is Bow-Wow Bugs a Bug a wordless picture story from Harcourt Books. Mark Newgarden resides with children's illustrator & author Megan Montague Cash in an ex-funeral parlor in Willamsburg, Brooklyn. He lives in Brooklyn New York City.