James Sturm

James Sturm

Sturm at Stumptown Comics Fest 2010
Born 1965 (age 50–51)
New York City, New York
Nationality American
Area(s) Cartoonist, Writer, Artist, Editor, Publisher
Notable works
 The Golem's Mighty Swing
The Revival
Hundreds of Feet Below Daylight
Fantastic Four: Unstable Molecules
Awards Eisner Award, 2004
Xeric Award, 1996

James Sturm (born 1965, in New York City)[1] is an American cartoonist and co-founder of the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont. Sturm is also the founder of the National Association of Comics Art Educators (NACAE), an organization committed to helping facilitate the teaching of comics in higher education.[2]

Biography

Sturm grew up in Rockland County, New York,[1] and later attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[3] In 1988, one year after graduating, he 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.[1]

In 1991, Sturm received a Master of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York. He then 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 Sturm 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[4]

Awards

Bibliography

(writer and artist unless otherwise noted)

Adventures in Cartooning series

References

  1. 1 2 3 Aushenker, Michael. "Drawing on Life," Jewish Journal (July 12, 2001).
  2. ↑ Hatfield, Charles. "Introduction," Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature (Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2005), p. xi.
  3. ↑ Constant, Paul. "'Making art does become a war of attrition': James Sturm on Teaching Cartooning, Cofounding The Stranger, and How Comics Aren't Disposable Anymore," The Stranger (Apr. 15, 2010).
  4. ↑ Sturm, James. "I'm Quitting the Internet," Slate (April 7, 2010).
  5. ↑ 2004 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Nominees and Winners
  6. ↑ Xerix Awards 1996
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 James Sturm at the Grand Comics Database

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