Sammy Harkham (born May 21, 1980) is an American
cartoonist
A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary an ...
and editor, best known for editing the ''
Kramers Ergot'' alternative comics anthology.
His current work can be found in the comic ''Crickets'', which was published by
Drawn & Quarterly
Drawn & Quarterly is a publishing company based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, specializing in comics. It publishes primarily comic books, graphic novels and comic strip collections. The books it publishes are noted for their artistic content, ...
for its first two issues but is now self-published.
He is the co-owner of the Family Bookstore in Los Angeles, and the co-founder of
Cinefamily (now known as Fairfax Cinema). His father is developer
Uri Harkham.
Awards and honors
*2002
Ignatz Award
The Ignatz Awards recognize outstanding achievements in comics and cartooning by small press creators or creator-owned projects published by larger publishers. They have been awarded each year at the Small Press Expo since 1997, only skipping ...
nominated for Promising New Talent
*2012
Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Since 1980, the ''Los Angeles Times'' has awarded a set of annual book prizes. The Prizes currently have nine categories: biography, current interest, fiction, first fiction (the Art Seidenbaum Award added in 1991), history, mystery/thriller ...
for ''Everything Together: Collected Stories''
References
External links
Family Bookstore blog The Comics Journal
1980 births
Alternative cartoonists
American cartoonists
Living people
Artists from Los Angeles
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