Small Press Spotlight: Graham Annable

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From the Cartoon Art Museum:



For Immediate Release: March 23, 2005
Contact: Andrew Farago, 415-227-8666 ext. 314
Images available upon request

Small Press Spotlight
featuring Graham Annable

Opens April 22, 2005

Beginning on April 22, 2005, the Cartoon Art Museum's ongoing Small Press Spotlight will feature the art of Graham Annable.

A native of Ontario, Canada, Annable has spent more than 10 years as a video game animator at LucasArts working on such titles as Full Throttle, Outlaws, and the award-winning Curse of Monkey Island. That might help explain why The Comics Journal described Annable¹s illustration style "more in tune with animation than with traditional comics art." Annable¹s self-published Grickle booklets--full of short, quirky tales of seemingly ordinary situations--first appeared on the small press shelves at Comic Relief in Berkeley before being picked up by Alternative Comics in 2001. A year later, he was nominated for a Harvey Award in the Best New Talent category.

In addition to his two comic collections, Grickle and Further Grickle, Annable has collaborated on the humor comics anthology Hickee. In 2004, he was voted Best Unknown Local Cartoonist by the San Francisco Weekly. His most recent comic efforts include Stickleback, about an eccentric man who must journey outside the comfort and routine of his own apartment, and the web comic "The Odyssey of Winton Woral," which can be seen on serializer.net.

About the Small Press Spotlight:

San Francisco has been a hotbed of innovative, groundbreaking comic art since the late 1800s with the advent of the modern comic strip. In the1960s, the Bay Area gained further notoriety when cartoonists like Robert Crumb, Spain Rodriguez, S. Clay Wilson and Trina Robbins launched the underground comix movement from San Franciscos Haight-Ashbury district. Today, some of the biggest names in alternative and small-press comics hail from the Bay Area, and The Cartoon Art Museum's Small Press Spotlight will focus on these talented individuals.

The Small Press Spotlight features four different artists each year. Several examples of each cartoonist's work will be showcased in each installment.

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