James Sturm

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James Sturm

Stumptown Comics Fest 2010
Born James Sturm
Nationality American
Area(s) Cartoonist, Writer, Penciller, Inker, Editor, Publisher, Letterer
Notable works
 The Golem's Mighty Swing
The Revival
Hundreds of Feet Below Daylight
Fantastic Four: Unstable Molecules
Awards Eisner, Xeric

James Sturm is an American cartoonist and co-founder of the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont.

Biography

In 1988, James Sturm self-published Down and Out Dawg, a book collecting his college newspaper strips, and Commix, an anthology that featured some of the first works of Chris Ware and Scott Dikkers. In 1990, Sturm was hired as a production assistant on Art Spiegelman's RAW magazine, and subsequently was published in the second and fourth issues of the Drawn & Quarterly anthology magazine.

In 1991, Sturm as he received a Master of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York,--> moved to Seattle, Washington, and co-founded the alternative newsweekly, The Stranger. Meanwhile, Fantagraphics published his first comic book The Cereal Killings #1. During the next five years James juggled jobs as art director of The Stranger, publisher of his own Bear Bones Press, and work on his own comics, like The Revival, published in 1996. In 1997, Sturm became a professor at the Savannah College of Art and Design, in Savannah, Georgia.

In 1998, Drawn & Quarterly published the story Hundreds of Feet Below Daylight, the second in Sturm's trilogy of American historical fiction pieces. Two years later came the last installment of the trilogy, the best-selling and award-winning graphic novel The Golem's Mighty Swing. This book went on to be printed in three languages, earned praise from such publications as The Sunday Observer, Entertainment Weekly, and The Washington Post Book World, and was chosen as the Best Graphic Novel of 2000 by Time. In 2004, Drawn & Quarterly collected Hundreds of Feet Below Daylight and The Revival as a deluxe comic book titled Above & Below. In October 2007, the trilogy was collected in a volume entitled James Sturm's America: God, Gold, and Golems.

In 2003, Sturm wrote the Marvel Comics four-issue miniseries Fantastic Four: Unstable Molecules, featuring characters based on the Fantastic Four. It won an Eisner Award for Best Limited Series.

In 2004, Sturm and Michelle Ollie founded the Center for Cartoon Studies, with its first classes offered in the fall of 2005. As of April 2010, he writes a column about the Internet for the website Slate[1]

Awards

  • 2004: Won "Best Limited Series" Eisner Award, for Fantastic Four: Unstable Molecules, with Guy Davis[2]
  • 1996 Xeric Award[3]

Bibliography

(writer and artist unless otherwise noted)

  • Above and Below: Two Stories of the American Frontier (Autumn 2004)[4]
  • Aesop's Fables #2 (Fall 1991), Fantagraphics Books, story "The Lion and the Mouse"[4]
  • The Cereal Killings #1–8 (March 1992–September 1995), Fantagraphics Books[4]
  • Drawn & Quarterly #2 (October 1990), Drawn and Quarterly, story "Friday Night"[4]
  • Drawn & Quarterly #3 (January 1991), Drawn and Quarterly, story "Signs of the Times"[4]
  • Drawn & Quarterly #4 (March 1991), Drawn and Quarterly, story "Ring"[4]
  • Market Day (2010), Drawn and Quarterly ISBN 1-897299-97-4
  • The Golem's Mighty Swing (July 2001), Drawn and Quarterly[4]
  • The Revival (1996), Bear Bones Press[4]
  • Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow (2007), Hyperion/Jump at the Sun (script only)[4]
  • Startling Stories: Fantastic Four - Unstable Molecules #1–4 (March–June 2003), Marvel Comics (script and layouts only)[4]
  • Adventures in Cartooning with Andrew Arnold, and Alexis Frederick-Frost (2009) First Second
  • Adventures in Cartooning Activity Book Andrew Arnold, and Alexis Frederick-Frost (2010) First Second
  • Adventures in Cartooning: Christmas Special with Andrew Arnold, and Alexis Frederick-Frost (2012) First Second
  • Adventures in Cartooning: Characters in Action with Andrew Arnold and Alexis Frederick-Frost (2013) First Second

References

  1. ↑ Sturm, James. "I'm Quitting the Internet," Slate (April 7, 2010).
  2. ↑ 2004 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Nominees and Winners
  3. ↑ Xerix Awards 1996
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9 James Sturm at the Grand Comics Database

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