Ivan Brunetti was born in a small town
in Italy on October 3, 1967. At the tender age of 8, he moved from
his grandparents' farm in Italy to the industrial South Side of
Chicago; he has lived in this fair city for about 5000 years, rarely
venturing outside of its bittersweet confines.
Mr. Brunetti is an Associate Professor of Illustration in the Design Department at Columbia College
in Chicago, where he teaches courses on illustration, cartooning, graphic novels, and visual narrative. He has also taught at the University of Chicago.
In 2005, he
curated The Cartoonist's Eye, an exhibit of 75 artists'
work, for the A+D Gallery of Columbia College Chicago; the exhibit
was a preview for An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and
True Stories (Yale University Press), scheduled for publication
in Fall 2006.
Brunetti drew a sporadic strip for The
Chicago Reader and other alternative weekly newspapers. He has drawn
comics and illustrations for The New York Times Sunday Magazine,
Entertainment Weekly, TIME Digital, Spin, Mother Jones, Fast Company,
The Baffler, The Comics Journal, In These Times, McSweeney's, and
(inexplicably) Scooby-Doo.
To date, Fantagraphics Books has published four issues of his comic
book series, Schizo, and two collections of his morally inexcusable
gag cartoons, HAW! and its miniature companion HEE!
He is the author of Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice and Aesthetics: A Memoir, as well as the editor of both volumes of An Anthology of of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories (all from Yale University Press). His drawings occasionally appear in the New Yorker, among other publications. His most recent books are Wordplay, 3X4, andComics: Easy As ABC! (guides for drawing comics for kids) from Toon Books.
Brunetti is the author of Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice and Aesthetics: A Memoir, as well as the editor of both volumes of An Anthology of of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories (all from Yale University Press). His drawings occasionally appear in the New Yorker, among other publications. His most recent books are Wordplay and 3X4 (both from Toon Books.
Mr. Brunetti's comics have been translated into Spanish, Italian,
Czech, and Swedish.
He lives with his wife and their three cats.
