{{BLP sources|date=April 2017}} {{short description|American cartoonist}} {{infobox comics creator
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1958|05|14}} | birth_place = Madison, New Jersey, U.S. | area = | art = y | write = | cartoonist = y | editor = y | nationality = American | awards = | notable works = }} '''Glenn Head''' (born May 14, 1958 in Madison, New Jersey) is an American cartoonist and comic book editor living in Brooklyn, New York. His cartooning has a strong surrealist bent and is heavily influenced by 1960s underground comix.<ref>{{cite web |author=Hannah Means Shannon |url=https://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/08/17/chicago-takes-us-from-suburbia-to-the-70s-comics-underground-glenn-heads-memoir-tells-all/ |title='Chicago' Takes Us From Suburbia To The 70's Comics Underground - Glenn Head's Memoir Tells All - Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movie, TV News |publisher=Bleedingcool.com |date=17 August 2015 |accessdate=2017-02-17 |archive-date=2017-02-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218070917/https://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/08/17/chicago-takes-us-from-suburbia-to-the-70s-comics-underground-glenn-heads-memoir-tells-all/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/08/glenn-head-chicago.html |title=Glenn Head Looks Back on Starving Artist Desperation in Chicago :: Comics :: Features :: Paste |publisher=Pastemagazine.com |date= |accessdate=2017-02-17 |archive-date=2017-02-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218064208/https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/08/glenn-head-chicago.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
Much of his work has appeared in comix anthologies, starting with ''Bad News 1, 2 and 3'' (editors Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden) and R. Crumb’s ''Weirdo'' magazine (#25). Head was a frequent contributor to the Fantagraphics quarterly comix anthology ''Zero Zero''. His strip "Skateboard Mayhem" was featured in the Simon & Schuster anthology ''Mind Riot: Coming of Age in Comix''.
Glenn Head’s comics and illustrations have appeared in a wide variety of publications, from ''The Wall Street Journal'' to ''Screw''. Magazines and newspapers that have published his work include ''The New York Times'', ''Playboy'', ''New Republic'', ''Sports Illustrated'', ''Pulse Magazine'', ''Advertising Age'', ''Interview'', ''Entertainment Weekly'', ''Mineshaft (magazine)'', ''and Nickelodeon Magazine.''
Head's solo work includes ''Avenue D'', comix about life on the Lower East Side; two issues of ''Guttersnipe'' comix, which combine grunge, surrealism, and autobiography; and a self-published sketchbook character study, ''Head Shots''.
From 2005 to 2010 Head edited and contributed to the Harvey- and Eisner Award-nominated anthology ''HOTWIRE Comics'' (three issues). From 2009 to 2015 he created his graphic epic, ''Chicago''. This coming-of-age memoir centers around a starry-eyed 19-year-old with dreams of underground comics glory as he encounters his heroes, faces homelessness, despair, insanity, and somehow survives.
A student of Art Spiegelman at the School of Visual Arts in the early ‘80s (in the environment that created ''RAW''), Head learned how to put comic books together. Head edited and contributed to three issues of ''Snake Eyes'' (with co-editor Kaz) and the pulp-crime underground comix anthology ''Hotwire Comix & Capers'' (numbers 1, 2 and 3). == Awards == His work as an editor garnered the following attention: * 1992 Harvey Award nomination for Best Anthology for ''Snake Eyes #2'' * 2007 Eisner Award for Best Anthology nomination for ''Hotwire Comix'' * 2007 Harvey Award for Best Anthology nomination for ''Hotwire Comix''
== Exhibitions == Head's fine art has been exhibited in New York and across the country: * 1993 ''"Comic Power"''<ref>Smith, Roberta. [https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/08/arts/review-art-the-comic-underground-where-the-funnies-aren-t.html "Review/Art; The Comic Underground, Where the Funnies Aren't,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220724222621/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/08/arts/review-art-the-comic-underground-where-the-funnies-aren-t.html |date=2022-07-24 }} ''New York Times'' (Oct. 8, 1993).</ref> (Exit Art, New York City) traveling show * 1997 ''"Art and Provocation: Images from Rebels"'' (Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art)<ref>Paglia, Michael. [https://www.westword.com/arts/not-the-funnies-5057838 "Not the Funnies,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220725013222/https://www.westword.com/arts/not-the-funnies-5057838 |date=2022-07-25 }} ''Westword'' (Sept. 18, 1997).</ref> * 2000 ''"New York Press Illustrators Show"'' (CB’s 313 Gallery)
Head’s editorial cartooning appeared in the ''"Inx"'' show at Hofstra University.{{cn|date=July 2022}}
== Bibliography == * "How I Spent My Summer on Avenue B" in ''Bad News #1'', 1983, self-published, {{ASIN|B00H6YCUSS}} — ''Bad News'' was a 1983–1988 comix anthology put together by Art Spiegelman’s SVA independent study class. * "The Bugs" in ''Bad News #2'', 1984, self-published, {{ASIN|B004EL5XK8}} * "Belinda’s Topless Go-Go Lounge" in ''Bad News'' #3, 1988, edited by Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden, Bad News Press/Fantagraphics, {{ASIN|B004X2X8D2}}. * ''Weirdo #25'', 1988, Last Gasp, edited by R. Crumb * ''Glenn Head’s Avenue D: Comics & Stories'', 1986, self-published, {{ASIN|B000727IGK}} * ''Avenue D'', 1991, Fantagraphics, {{ASIN|B00396SY4G}} * ''Snake Eyes'', 1990, Fantagraphics, {{ASIN|B009E04P3K}}, {{ISBN|1560970588}}, {{ISBN|978-1560970583}} * ''Snake Eyes'' #2, 1992, Fantagraphics, {{ISBN|1560970758}}, {{ISBN|978-1560970750}} * ''Snake Eyes'' #3, 2001, Fantagraphics, {{ISBN|1560971258}}, {{ISBN|978-1560971252}} * ''Zero Zero #1'', 1995, Fantagraphics, {{ASIN|B002ZD5IGG}} * ''Zero Zero'' #2, 1995, Fantagraphics, {{ASIN|B002ZDAYOW}} * ''Zero Zero'' #3, 1995, Fantagraphics, {{ASIN|B002ZDBD6A}} * ''Zero Zero'' #6, 1995, Fantagraphics, {{ASIN|B002ZDECJU}} * ''Zero Zero'' #14, 1997, Fantagraphics, {{ASIN|B00DCHV0OI}} * ''Zero Zero'' #19, August 1997, Fantagraphics, {{ASIN|B002ZF17RI}} * ''Zero Zero'' #20, September/October 1997, Fantagraphics, {{ASIN|B002ZF8ZX2}} * ''Guttersnipe Comics'' #1, 1994, Fantagraphics, {{ASIN|B000PBP9OQ}} * ''Guttersnipe Comix'' #2, 1996, Fantagraphics, {{ASIN|B006071WFE}} * "Skateboard Mayhem!" in ''Mind Riot: Coming of Age in Comix'', 1997, edited by Karen D. Hirsch {{ISBN|0689806221}}, {{ISBN|978-0689806223}} * ''Dirty Stories Vol. 3'', 2002, Fantagraphics, edited by Eric Reynolds * ''True Porn'' #2, 2005, edited by Robyn Chapman * ''Best Erotic Comics'', 2008, Last Gasp, {{ISBN|978-0-86719-686-3}} * ''Best Erotic Comics'', 2009, Last Gasp, {{ISBN|978-0-86719-711-2}} * ''Hotwire Comix and Capers Vol. 1'', 2006, Fantagraphics, {{ISBN|1560977280}}, {{ISBN|978-1560977285}} * ''Hotwire Comics, Vol. 2'', 2008, Fantagraphics, {{ISBN|1560978910}}, {{ISBN|978-1560978916}} * ''Hotwire, Vol. 3'', 2010, Fantagraphics, {{ISBN|1606992880}}, {{ISBN|978-1606992883}} * ''Chicago, A Comix Memoir By Glenn Head,'' 2015, Fantagraphics, {{ASIN|B014VDFSL2}}, {{ISBN|978-1-60699-878-6}}
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