Alley's General Store by Paul Karasik
Paul Karasik
Paul Karasik has had a curiously varied career as a cartoonist and teacher. He studied at the School of Visual Arts under three of the world’s most influential cartoonists: Will Eisner, Harvey Kurtzman, and Art Spiegelman. Spiegelman, the creator of the Pulitzer Prize winning memoir, “Maus”, took on Mr. Karasik as Associate Editor of RAW, the seminal avant guarde international revue of comics. His close association with Mr. Speigelman led Mr. Karasik to edit his own comic review, BAD NEWS, which ran some of the earliest published work by such artists as Ben Katchor, and Gary Panter. City of Glass, the graphic novel adaptation of Paul Auster’s novel that Mr. Karasik co-created with David Mazzuchelli, has been published in nine languages, included in the Norton Anthology of Post-Modern Fiction, and was named by The Comics Journal as one of the Best Comics of the 20th Century. With his sister, Judy, Mr. Karasik created The Ride Together, a Memoir of Autism in the Family. The groundbreaking format of this book combines prose and comics to tell the story of the Karasik siblings growing up with their autistic brother, David. Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, Jules Feiffer, notes that, “”The Ride Together” would break your heart, if you weren’t smiling.” It was chosen by the Autism Society of America as the Best Literary Work of the Year. Mr. Karasik’s cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker and Nickelodeon Magazines. Long involved in the field of education, Mr. Karasik, is a co-founder of the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School where he has served as Board President and Development Director. He is an adjunct professor at The Rhode Island School of Design, and has taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and at the Scuola Internazionale di Comics in Italy. While abroad, Mr. Karasik was the guest at several comics festivals in Italy as well as in France, Germany and Switzerland. He served as a judge for the Annual Awards at the Comicon in Naples and gave a keynote address at “Fumetto International”, an international exhibition of comics at the Triannale in Milan. At “Kosmopolis”, a cutting-edge Arts and Literature symposium in Barcelona Mr. Karasik gave a class on comics adaptation and an address, “How To Read A Comic Book”, to an audience of over 500 attendees. Mr. Karasik was co-editor of the book/catalogue for The Masters of American Comics, the largest museum survey of the art form, shown in 2006 at the Hammer and MOCA Museums in Los Angeles, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Jewish Museum in New York, and the Newark Museum. His major contribution to the book accompanying the exhibit was to help fifteen writers, including Dave Eggers, Stanley Crouch, Matt Groening, and Jules Feiffer develop and write cogent, exciting, relevant essays about one of each of the fifteen great cartoonists in the show. At the Barrett Gallery at Santa Monica College in 2003 he curated Graphic Novel Realism, an exhibit of work by nine contemporary cartoonists.
Alley's General Store
Paul Karasik
Pen & Ink
9" x 12"     Framed: 15" x 18"
2016
$650
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