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.
He currently works as a web designer and has recently started teaching classes on editorial illustration and comics at Columbia College Chicago and the University of Chicago, respectively. 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.
In addition to all of the above, he draws 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!
Mr. Brunetti's comics have been translated into Spanish, Italian, Czech, and Swedish.
He lives with his wife and their three cats

New Ivan Brunetti interview from Reader's Voice.

Group art show
Ivan Brunetti, Megan Kelso and others,
June 16 - July 18
Reception: Saturday, June 16, 6:30-10:00

Giant Robot
2119 Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles CA 90025
323.662.GRLA

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