Ethan Persoff

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Ethan Persoff is an American cartoonist,[1] archivist, and sound artist.[2] His work as an archivist includes a complete digitization of Paul Krassner's counterculture magazine The Realist,[3] and the website Comics with Problems, which has been featured on multiple segments of The Rachel Maddow Show.[4][5] As a comics artist, he has been published by Fantagraphics,[6] and received media attention for his website projects, including a downloadable Halloween mask based on Senator Larry Craig and a Tijuana Bible based on George W. Bush and John McCain.[7][8]

The Larry Craig Halloween Mask,[9] a downloadable paper mask designed to be fit over a paper bag, received widespread media attention, including Air America, CBS News, and the Washington papers Politico and Roll Call.[10] Other satires on Persoff's website include an entire cosmetic line of Sarah Palin lipstick,[11] and an audio piece of an angered Mitt Romney supporter blended with orchestral music that went quickly viral on the Internet until being forced offline.[12]

From 2009 through 2011, Persoff served as Art Director for Barney Rosset's Evergreen Review. While working for the magazine, he also contributed two pieces of writing, a profile of the beat poet recording project Paris Records[13] and a report on George W Bush's first post-presidential appearance as a motivational speaker, entitled A Day Spent In Hell.[14]

Currently, Persoff is working on a comic biography with artist Scott Marshall on underground journalist John Wilcock. The strip is serialized on the website Boing Boing,[15] and has been recognized by Print,[16] The New Yorker[17] and New York Magazine.[18]

References

  1. ↑ "A By-No-Means-Comprehensive List of Austin Comics Writers and Artists". 
  2. ↑ "Free Music Archive - Ethan Persoff". 
  3. ↑ "The Realist Archive is Now Complete". 
  4. ↑ "Rachel Maddow Show, July 14, 2010 'Don't ask, Don't tell' illustrated". 
  5. ↑ "Rachel Maddow Show, July 21, 2010 Review of the George Wallace segregation comic". 
  6. ↑ "Fantagraphics Books - Ethan Persoff". 
  7. ↑ "The 1934 George Bush John McCain Tijuana Bible". 
  8. ↑ "Bush-McCain 'Tijuana Bibles' at the Democratic National Convention". 
  9. ↑ "U.S. Senator Larry Craig Paper Bag Mask". 
  10. ↑ "Larry Craig Halloween Mask, Media Report". 
  11. ↑ "The Sarah Palin Lipstick Collection". 
  12. ↑ "Angry 'Obama Was Re-Elected' Woman Gets An Orchestra To Accompany Rant". 
  13. ↑ "Ladies and Gentlemen, Paris Records - Conversations with Michael Minzer and Hal Willner". 
  14. ↑ "A Day Spent in Hell - Getting Motivated at Bush's First Public Appearance as Motivational Speaker". 
  15. ↑ "John Wilcock Comics on Boing Boing". 
  16. ↑ "Print Magazine profiling John Wilcock". 
  17. ↑ "New Yorker Bookbench, November 21, 2011". 
  18. ↑ "The Approval Matrix: Week of November 21, 2011 - New York Magazine". 

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