Timothy "Tim" Patrick Goodyear (born August 1977) is an American

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s publisher, distributor, and

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from

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. He has been a contributor to Tim Root's ''Crappy Comics'', Sean Aaberg's ''

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'', and has compiled several collaborative

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Teenage Dinosaur

Under the Teenage Dinosaur imprint, Goodyear publishes absurd andboy’s club #1 (Teenage Dinosaur/Buenaventura Press)
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'' Goddess Head 2005. *''Boy's Club 1'' by

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(subsequent editions published by

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and now appearing monthly in The Believer magazine comics page). *''Negro Frankenstein'' by Al Frank *Various, Bobby Madness *''Ariadne auf Naxos'' by Julia Gfrörer

Teenage Dinosaur Comics Compilations

With

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and Tugboat Pres

Teenage Dinosaur has published three major minicomics compilations, which have been released every

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since 2008. *Nerd Burglar Nerd Burglar is a one-off comics anthology edited by

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and Jeremy Tiedeman that was published jointly by Teenage Dinosaur, Sparkplug Comic Books, and Tugboat Press for

2008. Nerd Burglar was printed on vellum. It features short works by Bobby Madness, Elijah Brubaker, Chris Cilla, Sarah Oleksyk, Aron Nels Steinke, Jennifer Parks, Tim Root and Shawn Granton. The cover was drawn by Chris Cilla. Although free, due to the work by Bobby Madness and Chris Cilla the compilation now goes for $3–9 on eBay. With future editions, the publishers left a note in the indicia requesting that people charge "Free-99" for their joint

offerings. *Bird Hurdler :Bird Hurdler features a preview of Ariadne auf Naxos volume 2 by Julia Gfrörer,Portland Zine Symposium 2009
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, a Thanksgiving story by Lisa Eisenberg, a brief

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jam, and very short semiautobiographical minicomic stories by Zack Soto, & a disturbing vignette by

. The front cover was drawn by Arp, with the back cover by Gfrörer. *Dope Flounder *Class of Skookum High (published jointly with Alarming Press) :Ryan Iverson, Jon Clark, Amanda Verwey, Karn, Beau von Tinklywinkle, Mark Thompson, Lily Gilbert, Seth Weber, Birch Cooper, Max Clotfelter, Sean Christensen (Awesome But True), Michael Aushenker, Moises Domingo Rios *Blowjizzy Nizzy (published by pre-teen dinosaur) Art by goodyear. This is considered by many to be the first underground comic book, published in 1963.

Works

;Video Tonfa *The Punisher Series *Child's Play *Rockn'Roll 420 Killaz *Knowledge *For sheezle my neezle, this is my steez. *Video Tonfa / Feedback split (with John Isaacson)Feedback #7/ Video Tonfa split zine , Overglued
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In popular culture

Goodyear appears as himself in

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's book tour diary and self-help book ''Ten Thousand Things to Do''. Goodyear has appeared outside doing things sometimes but enjoys the indoor gentleman lifestyle. He frequently sports a so-called Canadian Tuxedo, as seen in the compilation ''Dope Flounder''.

Notes

External links

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Photos and Drawings of Tim on Flickr
{{DEFAULTSORT:Goodyear, Tim American illustrators Artists from California Alternative cartoonists Living people 1977 births Publishers from California