Hans Rickheit (born January 12, 1973) is an American cartoonist.
Rickheit was originally a resident of Ashburnham, Massachusetts. He originally self-published minicomics which presented dark 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 short-lived 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 number of alternative small press comics anthologies and periodicals and in the The Stranger weekly.
He re-located Philadelphia, where Rickheit still released the occasional issue of Chrome Fetus, his showcase for his own shorter works. From 2001 to 2009 he made performance art, played music with and designed album cover art for musician Katt Hernandez as himself and also the character "Doctor Selenium". The Squirrel Machine, his longest graphic novel to date, has been published by Fantagraphics Books in 2009. In early 2010, he returned to Massachusetts. He presently creates Ectopiary, a webcomic released in weekly installments.