The Center for Cartoon Studies

White River Junction, VT.

MFA, 2012 (working).

Cornell University

Ithaca, NY.

BA, 2006 Summa cum laude in Comparative Literature and Near Eastern Studies. Dean’s List; Distinction in all subjects.

American University of Beirut

Beirut, Lebanon.

Visiting Student, Fall 2005.

Guest Editor
- Samandal

09/08 – present

Reviewed submissions with other editors for issue 11 of Samandal, the premier comics magazine in the Middle East. Designed promotional poster for issue. Production design on entire issue and cleanup of submissions for printing.

Freelance Designer and Illustrator

09/08 – present

Designed murals, illustrations, cartoons and websites for a variety of clients including The Bold Italic, Recessitate, One Smart Kid, Wells Fargo, Threatmetrix and others.
Design Portfolio Website

Designer, Concept Artist, Writer and Webmaster
- Frown Town Puppet Show

02/09 – present

Created concept art, sculpted maquettes and head patterns for puppets; wrote and edited scripts; designed sets; designed, built, and maintained website.
Frown Town Website

Associate Art Director
- The Commonwealth Club of California

09/06-09/08

Designed, laid out, and coordinated acquisition of art and photography for the Commonwealth Club's monthly magazine, the Commonwealth; created spot illustrations for the Commonwealth; designed and produced promotional materials for Commonwealth Club events, including the Club's Annual 2008 Fundraising Dinner, the California Book Awards and speeches by a wide array of internationally known figures; redesigned and rebranded the Commonwealth Club's San Francisco offices at 595 Market St.

Editorial and Design Intern
- McSweeney’s Publishing

06/06 – 09/06

Reviewed submissions for, fact checked and proofread articles appearing in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern and The Believer magazine; assisted in the cover layout for McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern: Issue 21; worked on layout and chart section of The Believer: Issue 37; painted a really big mural in the basement of McSweeney’s Publishing headquarters in San Francisco.

Founder, Editor in Chief
- The American Walrus Magazine

9/05 – 06/06

Reviewed, edited and proofread submissions for The American Walrus, a comics magazine (defunct, sadly); designed layout of the magazine; negotiated printing, launch, and distribution of the magazine; designed, set up and blogged for the American Walrus website (also defunct).

Print Design, Web Design, Page Layout, Photo Correction and Retouching, Poster Design, Promotional Campaigns, Illustration, Cartooning, Art Direction, Prepress and Print Packaging, Concept Art, Murals, Puppetry, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe InDesign, Flash, Quark, Microsoft Office, Windows, Mac OS X, HTML, CSS.

Comics

The Vacant Lot, Samandal Comics Magazine, Issue #1

Bad Dreams, Samandal Comics Magazine, Issue #2

A Tough Break, Samandal Comics Magazine, Issue #3

The King of the Cats, Samandal Comics Magazine, Issue #5

Death Machine, Samandal Comics Magazine, Issue #6

Doppelganger, Samandal Comics Magazine, Issue #9

Failed State, Samandal Comics Magazine, Issue #10

Behind the Stars, Samandal Comics Magazine, Issue #11

Under My Bridge: The Great Dwerf Migration, Elfworld, Volume 2

The King of the Cats, Something Wicked

Reviews for Boldtype, Flavorpill Production's book review

A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi - (April, 2009)

Fantagraphics' Ignatz series - (main feature, August, 2007)

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel - (February, 2007)

Lost Girls by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie - (January, 2007)

Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury - (December, 2006)

Cinema Panopticum by Thomas Ott - (October, 2006)

Night Fisher by R. Kikuo Johnson - (April, 2006)