Glenn Head

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. 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).

• Born — 14 May 1958 • Birthplace — Madison, New Jersey, U.S. • Art — y • Cartoonist — y • Editor — y • Nationality — American

Head's fine art has been exhibited in New York and across the country: • 1993 "Comic Power" (Exit Art, New York City) traveling show • 1997 "Art and Provocation: Images from Rebels" (Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art) • 2000 "New York Press Illustrators Show" (CB’s 313 Gallery) Head’s editorial cartooning appeared in the "Inx" show at Hofstra University.