Mike Dawson

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For the football player of the same name see Mike Dawson (football player).

Mike Dawson (born 1975) is an American cartoonist. He was born in England, and emigrated to the United States in 1986, where his family settled in Red Bank, New Jersey. He studied painting at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.

During college Mike took on the job of writing and drawing a daily comic strip for the college newspaper The Daily Targum, and also began self-publishing comics and attending small-press events. In 2002 he began the humor series Gabagool!, with co-writer Chris Radtke, which ran for six issues.

Since 2005 his work has appeared in a number of comics anthologies, including AdHouse Books successful Project: Superior collection, and issue #1 of the spin-off series, Superior Showcase. His first graphic novel, entitled Freddie & Me, an epic and unabashedly autobiographical story about his lifelong obsession with Freddie Mercury and the rock band Queen, will be published in 2008 by Bloomsbury in the USA and Jonathan Cape in Great Britain.

Mike is part of a loosely associated comics collective called "The Ink Panthers", along with Alex Robinson, Tony Consiglio and a few others.

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[edit] Awards

  • Day Prize Nomination for "Guitar Solo" mini-comic (2006)
  • Ignatz Award Nomination for Promising New Talent (2002)

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