Lars Martinson (born 1977) is an American cartoonist.
Life
Lars Martinson was born in 1977 in
Minnesota
Minnesota ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north and east and by the U.S. states of Wisconsin to the east, Iowa to the so ...
. From 2003 to 2006, he lived and worked in Japan as an assistant English teacher with the
JET Program. In 2007, he received a
Xeric Grant
The Xeric Foundation is a private, non-profit corporation based in Northampton, Massachusetts, which for twenty years awarded self-publishing grants to comic book creators, as well as qualified charitable and nonprofit organizations. The Xeric Fo ...
for Comic Book Self-Publishers that allowed him to work on his graphic novel ''Tōnoharu''. He went back to Japan in 2008 to study East Asian calligraphy with a two-year research scholarship from the Japanese government. He returned to Japan in July 2011 again to work with the
JET Program.
Work
''Tōnoharu'' is the story of Dan Wells, an American assistant English teacher in rural Japan. It is inspired by Martinson's experience. It is a self-deprecatory, tender and humorous description of the daily life of an isolated dull unimaginative foreigner in a country whose language he does not master.
Books
* Young Men of a certain Mind, self-published, 2003
* Tōnoharu, Part One, Pliant Press, 2008 (Paperback edition: Top Shelf Productions, September 2014, ).
[Review by D. Elkin, ''Tonoharu: Part One. Paperback Edition'', i]
Tiny Pages Made of Ashes 10/3/2014: Comix Don’t Take No Crap
, ''Comics Bulletin'' 2014/10/03.
* Tōnoharu, Part Two, Pliant Press, 2010
** ''Tonoharu'' (French translation of both volumes), Le lézard noir, 2011
* Tōnoharu, Part Three, Pliant Press, November 2016, .
References
External links
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American comics writers
American comics artists
American graphic novelists
1977 births
Living people
American male novelists
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