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Works by Geoff Grogan

Geoff Grogan has been an independent cartoonist for more than 30 years and a working artist for much longer. He was a Xeric award winner (Look Out! Monsters; 2007), and cartoonist of two comic strips formerly at GoComics.com (Plastic Babyheads from Outer Space and Jetpack Jr.). His comics-oriented collages and paintings have been exhibited nationally and internationally, most prominently at the prestigious Drawing Center in lower Manhattan in 2004.His comics, art and animations are known for their variety of formal and stylistic approaches and satirical social commentary.A graduate of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, he is an Associate Professor of Art and Art History at Adelphi University, Garden City, Long Island, where he teaches a variety of classes on comics and animation.Among his most notable works, is an over-sized mixed-media comic book, “Fandancer”, identified as a “notable comic” by Houghton-Mifflin’s America’s Best Comics series(2011) in which he utilized a wide array of graphic approaches, including graphite, pastel, ink, watercolor and collage. In 2010-11, he co-published (with Kevin Mutch of Fantagraphics’ The Rough Pearl) an oversize broadsheet newspaper of alternative comics; “pood”, featuring his own work alongside award-winning creators such as Mutch, Jim Rugg, Bisakh Som and Joe Staton, among many others.More recently, he has continued his work in comic books, producing the tongue-in-cheek humor-adventure comic book series,” Green Screen”(two issues of which were successfully funded on Kickstarter)) and a 1950’s style sci-fi adventure,” Captain Daquiri Jones and the Space-Rockettes”. The latter, published in summer 2023, was, also a successful Kickstarter project and is the first part of a larger graphic novel project.In 2022, as a tribute to the 100th birthday of cartoonist Charles Schulz, Grogan produced a 10 minute animated adaptation the 1963 record album, “Good Grief, Charlie Brown!Peanuts”, featuring comedienne Kaye Ballard and published it on YouTube.As a side-project, in 2018 Grogan began a podcast called “Blockhead: Cartoonists talk Comics” on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Pandora, where he has been fortunate enough to have great conversations with many of his favorite cartoonists, including: Ray Billingsley, Lynn Johnston, Brian Walker, Seth, Mike Allred, Joe Staton, John Rose and many others.Born in Binghamton, NY, he lives happily in a country home not far from his hometown of Endicott ,NY, with his wife, two dogs and four cats, on a sprawling 20 acres..