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Tom Pappalardo. Born and raised north of Boston, in the city of Haverhill. Commuted to MassArt for awhile - majored in sitting in the cafeteria. Worked some god-awful chain store retail. Moved to western Massachusetts, grew particularly fond of sentence fragments; decided to stay. I've been graphically designing, illustrating, and writing since the early 90s. I am always knee-deep working on either client projects or my own. At various times over the last couple of decades I have played the role of graphic designer, illustrator, cartoonist, art director, audio mixer, foley artist, copy editor, Powerpoint creator, writer, layout dude, web designer, web programmer, voiceover artist, comic book publisher, music editor, and animator. Worth mentioning: In 1995, I received a Xeric grant with Matt Smith for Alec Dear, which was later published by Caliber Comics. I was the editor of the MassArt comic anthology, and I have self-published two collections of my comic work, Famous Fighters (again with Matt Smith, 2006) and Failure, Incompetence (2005). I have been doing print, radio, and television ads for Turn It Up CDs for over 10 years. I published a comic strip, Whiskey! Tango! Foxtrot! in The Valley Advocate for two years. I am in the band The No-Shadow Kick, which never plays anymore. I painted a really big mural in Easthampton, Massachusetts (2008) and made a coffeemug design for WFCR (2007). I have had poster art published in the collections Art of Modern Rock (Chronicle Books, 2004) and Naïve: Modernism and Folklore in Contemporary Graphic Design (Gestalten, 2009). I've had comics published in lots of zines you've never heard of. I am writing & drawing an illustrated novel called Broken Lines, which you've probably never heard of, either.
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