Tom Hart (comics)

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Tom Hart (b. 1969 Kingston, NY) is an American comics creator best known for his Hutch Owen series of comics. Hutch Owen was originally self-published by Hart (funded with money from a 1993 Xeric grant) through Canadian publisher Black Eye Productions. Later editions, as well as later books in the series, have been published by Top Shelf Productions. TIME magazine has called Hutch Owen "A devastating satire [which] feels like a scalding hot poker cauterizing the open wound of American corporate and consumer culture."

Tom Hart is also an experienced teacher, having taught for more than 6 years at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, Parsons, Education Alliance, Young Audiences, numerous places across the country and all over New York City.

Hutch Owen has also been distributed as daily webcomic strips, and Hart is also the former editor of and a current contributor to serializer. One of the original comics on serializer was Trunktown, a Hutch Owen spin-off drawn by Hart and written by Shaenon Garrity. His current serializer comic is the strip version of Hutch Owen, which also runs in newspapers in New York and Boston.

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Arnold, Andrew (Jan. 20, 2005). "I Moved Your Damn Cheese!". TIME,
Spurgeon, Tom (Winter 2002). "Working Hard: The Comics of Tom Hart". Comics Journal Winter Special 2002, p. 67.
Jebens, Harley (August 26, 1996). "No laughing matter; Exhibits, grants take comic art seriously". Austin American-Statesman, p. E1.
MacDonald, Heidi (December 19, 2005). "Web Comics: Page Clickers to Page Turners; It's like manga five or six years ago". Publishers Weekly, p. 24.
Wood, Mariko (March 2003). "Download: Good Comics and Baud Web Comics". The Comics Journal, No. 251, p. 38.