Comics Artists F
Glenn Fabry
• Official: www.glennfabry.co.uk
Glenn, who drew Slaine for 2000AD,
has been working on the best-selling DC comic Preacher for
the last six years with Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon.
Ulises Farinas
Official Blog: a-new-elegant-universe.blogspot.com
Ulises
was born in New Jersey. He enjoys drawing and his strips
include Motro, which appears on Act-I-vate.
Michel Fiffe
MySpace: www.myspace.com/michelfiffe
Michel Fiffe is the creator of Panorama and
Fut Miso which appear on Act-I-Vate.
His work has appeared the mini-series Brawl,
frequent issues of Negative
Burn, and Fall
of Cthulhu for Boom! Studios.
Aside from finishing Panorama,
he is working on his next Act-i-vate webcomic, Zegas,
as well as the graphic novel, Cuba.
Mike Flanagan
• Official: sensible.screaming.net
• Mike Flanagan on ROK Comics
You'll have seen Mike's cartoons in Focus
if
you're technologically
minded. He does cartoons
to illustrate
articles
and columns,
also for advertising
and PR. The fee 
is
55 UK pounds
each...or
$US 100.
All he needs
is your text (or
concept) to work from
and a couple
of hours
to complete
the job. "I
first do a rough
for your
approval
then the final goes
off to you as a
high res jpeg in
colour or b/w. Payment
by cheque
or Paypal,
then all rights belong
to you."
David Fletcher
• David
Fletcher's Page on the New Zealand Cartoonists Site
• David Fletcher's ROK Comics Page
• David
Fletcher's Crumb Blog (Blackbirds only)
New Zealand cartoonist David Fletcher claims that for
the last twenty years he's been pretending to work from
home as a comic strip, drawing a daily strip called The
Politician and several weekly strips including The
TV Kids which appears in the TV
Guide. His cartoons are syndicated to Europe, Britain,
Africa, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand.
People still keep asking him when is he going to get a proper job...
• Read a downthetubes interview with David Fletcher
Maurice Fontentot
Official: ghostpimp.com
Blog: mfont681.blogspot.com/
CafePress: www.cafepress.com/ghostpimpstuff
Born and raised
in Southern California, Ghost Pimp creator and now
Brooklyn-based Maurice moved to the east coast to attend
the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon Art. After graduating,
he went on to Write, Color and Edit at Valiant Comics.
Storyboarding and Design work was his next stop at places
like Disney, MTV, Cartoon Network, 4Kids, World Leaders,
Scholastic and PSYOP.
Davy Francis
Official: www.geocities.com/davy_francis/index.htm
A contributor to the short-lived
but much-missed Oink comic,
Davy's been
drawing cartoons and comic strips for over 30
years all over the world. His work has appeared in DC Comics,
Fantagraphics Books, the BCC and Channel 4. He is also available
for live caricature work.
Simon Fraser
Official: simonfraser.net
LiveJournal: simonfraser.livejournal.com
ComicSpace: www.comicspace.com/simonfraser
Wiki Entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Fraser_(comics)
2000AD Bio: www.2000adonline.com/?zone=droid&page=profiles&choice=SIMONF
Act-I-Vate Comix Collective: act-i-vate.com
Simon Fraser is a Scottish Comics Artist who after many
travels and adventures washed up in Brooklyn NY.
He is best known as the Co-Creator of Nikolai
Dante (
with Robbie Morrison ) for 2000AD,
but also drew Lux & Alby for
Writer Martin Millar, Judge Dredd,
Shimura, The
Family and
'Richard Matheison's Hellhouse among other things.
Frank Frazetta
• The
Official Frank Frazetta Art Gallery
Better known today as a much emulated fantasy and
science fiction artist, Frazetta's earliest work was in
funny animal comics, which he signed as "Fritz".
He worked for EC
Comics, National Comics (including the superhero feature Shining Knight), Avon
and several other comic book companies in the 1950s, often
working in collaboration
with friends Al Williamson and Roy Krenkel.
Through the work on the Buck Rogers covers
for Famous
Funnies,
Frazetta started working with Al Capp on his Li'l
Abner comic strip. He was also
producing his own strip, Johnny
Comet, at this time, as well as assisting Dan Barry
on the Flash Gordon daily
strip. In 1961, after nine years with Capp, Frazetta returned
to regular comics, although work was hard to find, because
comics had changed during his period with Capp and his style
was considered antiquated. Eventually he joined Harvey Kurtzman
doing the parody strip
Little Annie Fanny in Playboy magazine.
His
paintings, whose subjects range from Conan the Barbarian
to Spider-Man, are highly valued and much sought after. A
DVD about his life and work, Frazetta:
Playing with Fire,
was released in 2003
John Freeman
Web Link: www.polypop.com/comix/freeman
US
cartoonist
John
Freeman
(not
to
be
confused
with
UK
cartoonist,
comics
writer
and
downthetubes editor
John
Freeman),
aka
Uncle
Sloppy
was
born
in
1971
in
Shreveport,
Louisiana.
Home
of
papermills
and
hatred.
In
1973
he
moved
to
Dallas
and
began
a
long,
fruitful
relationship
with
the
field
of "art." When he was 11
he was diagnosed with Tourette's syndrome
(The barking, yelling and obscenities
disease), this forced him to defend
himself against "bullies" with
the
only
weapon
at
his
command:
the
weapon
of
love.
At
age
12,
he
began
taking
acting
classes
at
the
local
theater
slowly
being
conditioned
to
be
as
loud,
obnoxious
and
insecure
as
possible.
This
came
to
a "head" when he attended Arts Magnet High School; a "Fame"-esque place where
half the day was filled with regular high school classes and the other half was filed with "art." After graduation
he moved to Denton under the pretence of attending the University of North Texas. There he started the first in a
seemingly endless series of bands: the main two being the Dooms U.K. and the Dutch Treats. A tentative Belgian tour f
ell through forcing Uncle Sloppy to resort to his first love, comix. To become world famous and squelch once and for
all that lingering, nagging yet mostly unfounded suspicion that "nobody
likes
me."
In
August
2001,
Uncle
Sloppy
went
to
New
York
for
a
three
week
vacation.
He
is
still
there,
feeling
very
lucky
that
he
once
again
works
in
an
office
that
has
access
to
a
free
photocopier;
allowing
him
to
distribute
his
"art" on a larger scale than ever before. He now divides his time
between drawing comix, playing Rock,
and making sweet, sweet love to
all the ladies he can find...
John Freeman
UK. Writes more than he cartoons
these days, and not to be confused
with US cartoonist John Freeman, who is far better looking
(or at least it looks like he is from his web site). One-time
Editor of Doctor Who Magazine he
also edited Death's
Head II, Warheads, Overkill and
other Marvel UK titles, contributing to the brief 'Marvel
UK' legend masterminded by Paul Neary with limited series
such as Shadow Riders with Brian Williamson, drawn by Ross
Dearsley, and Gene Dogs, drawn by Dave Taylor. And, um,
this is his site. You
can view his full bio here.
Jimmy
Friell (1912 - 1997)
Friell
worked under the pseudonyn 'Gabriel' because
he wanted to herald the end of Capitalism. This is the first exhibition
of his work from the Communist Daily
Worker and offers a wonderful insight into
the attitudes of those on the Left during the Cold War from the late
1940s up until the late 1950s. Billed as"Fleet Street's greatest
discovery since David Low", Friell started drawing for the Daily
Worker in 1936 railing against the evils
of Hitler and Mussolini. In 1956, disillusioned, he left the paper
after his cartoon comparing the Russian tanks in Budapest to the Anglo-French
invasion of Egypt was rejected. He walked out along with many of the
Daily Worker's editorial staff. "I couldn't
conceive carrying on cartooning about the evils of capitalism and
imperialism," Friell wrote, "and ignoring the acknowledged
evils of Russian Communism."
The exhibition will consist of 60 of his best original political cartoons. The
exhibition is being organised in association with the British Cartoon Archive
and will be opened by the cartoonist's brother Charles Friell.
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