RESUME: Brad J. Guigar

CONTACT: bguigar@yahoo.com

ACADEMIC HISTORY
BFA degree, May 1991
Alma College
Alma, Michigan
cumulative G.P.A.: 3.78

WORK EXPERIENCE
Graphic Artist, 1998-present
The Philadelphia Daily News; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Worked as part of a six-person graphics department.
Responsibilities included overseeing and organizing daily deadline
graphics; creating informational graphics and cartoons; and creating
special feature page designs.

Cartoonist, 2005-present
Evil Inc; daily comic strip
Self-syndicated a daily comic strip that appears on the Web and in newspapers including the Philadelphia Daily News and the Stanford Daily.

Author, 2008
How To Make Webcomics
Co-authored a 200-page book on cartooning for the Web published by Image Comics. It sold out in three months and is currently in its second printing.

Podcast co-host , 2007-present
Webcomics Weekly
Co-host of a weekly podcast that discusses the Webcomics business model and general cartooning tips and tricks. It can be downloaded here.

Cartoonist, 2000-2005
Greystone Inn; daily comic strip
Self-syndicated a daily comic strip that appears on the Web and in newspapers including the Philadelphia Daily News and the Stanford Daily.

Author, 2003
The Everything Cartooning Book
Wrote a 320-page book on cartooning, complete with 150 illustrations,
for national publication by Adams Media, inc.

Graphic Artist, 1995-1998
The Akron Beacon Journal; Akron, Ohio
Worked as part of an eight-person graphics department.
Responsibilities included overseeing and organizing daily deadline
graphics, creating informational graphics, assisting special feature
page designs and assisting with technological training and updating.
Specialized in on-site breaking news coverage.

Freelance Artist/ Consultant, 1995
Assisted in a redesign/launch project involving a weekly newspaper by
creating a Macintosh-based pagination system and training employees.

Graphic Artist, 1991-95
The Repository; Canton, Ohio
Single-handedly met the graphic requirements of an 81,900-circulation
daily newspaper. Responsibilities included creating informational
graphics, illustrations and page designs, operating scanning
equipment and coordinating wire graphics with stories.

Editorial Cartoonist, 1989-90
The Huron Daily Tribune
Created weekly editorial cartoons and graphic art.

AWARDS & HONORS
Eisner Award nomination for Phables, 2007.

MACINTOSH EXPERIENCE
Macromedia Freehand 10
Adobe InDesign CS
Quark XPress 4.0/6.0
Adobe Photoshop CS
Adobe Illustrator CS
HTML experience
Web design experience
Macromedia Flash CS

REFERENCES Available upon request

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