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who's who in Hotwire #3

	Rick Altergott Rick Altergott is a professional illustrator and cartoonist who resides in Pawtucket, Rhode Island with his wife, fellow cartoonist Ariel Bordeaux. Their collaborative comic book Raisin Pie is published by Fantagraphics. Altergott is best known for Doofus, a long-running series published by Fantagraphics, notorious for its lowbrow, scatalogical humor. Doofus chronicles the misadventures of two small-town weirdos, Doofus and Henry Hotchkiss. Altergott's first published work was in the early 1980s, but he didn't really settle into the comics world until late in the decade, when he contributed regularly to the humor magazine Cracked. Throughout the 1990s Altergott published the small-press comic Douche Bag Dougan (the titular hero of which later made an appearance in Fantagraphics' Zero Zero anthology.) Altergott's work has also appeared in Duplex Planet Illustrated and Hate (both published by Fantagraphics), where he was repeatedly promoted by Peter Bagge. In September 2006, Altergott released a serious biblical mini-comic based on the life of Saint Matthias. In 2008, Altergott and Bordeaux contributed to the anthology Kramers Ergot 7.
	Mary Fleener A native of Los Angeles, Mary Fleener inherited good art genes from her mother and majored in printmaking at Cal State University in Long Beach. Inspired by ZAP COMIX and Robert Crumb, she started making mini-comics in 1984 and was published shortly thereafter in comix such as WEIRDO, RIP OFF REVIEW, WIMMEN’S, TITS ‘n’ CLITS, and TWISTED SISTERS. Her first solo comic was HOODOO (1988), followed by SLUTBURGER (mostly autobiographical tales), and these were collected in her book, LIFE OF THE PARTY (1994). Fleener is also a painter, and her work has shown at The American Visionary Art Museum, Laguna Beach Art Museum , La Luz de Jesus Gallery, and her illustration work has been published in the Village Voice, Entertainment Weekly, Hustler, Guitar Player, Musician, and International Tattoo Art. She is currently working on a graphic novel about her musical adventures for Fantagraphics.
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	Glenn Head Glenn attended and dropped out of the following art schools: Cleveland Institute of Art, Marlboro State Hospital, Art Students League, NYC, School of Visual Arts. Graduated from SVA in 1986. His comics and illustrations have appeared in Screw, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Press, R. Crumb's Weirdo, Snake Eyes, Bad News, and HOTWIRE (which he edits)... and more. He is currently working on a graphic novel about being broke and homeless in Chicago circa 1977 after dropping out of art school.

	Danny Hellman Danny Hellman was born on August 2nd, 1964, and was raised in Jackson Heights, Queens. Hellman graduated from Manhattan's High School of Art & Design in 1982, and took figure drawing classes at the Art Students League in subsequent years. During the mid-1980s, while struggling to earn a living as a bike messenger, Hellman drew gig posters for the band Floor Kiss, which he also pasted throughout Lower Manhattan late at night. In the Summer of 1988, Hellman stuffed a stack of these posters into a portfolio and found his way into the offices of the notorious Screw Magazine. Screw (the first publication to buy Hellman's drawings) was soon followed by New York Press, the Village Voice, Guitar World, and others. By the mid-90s, Hellman had become a widely published illustrator whose distinctive style was a favorite of art directors and readers alike. Beyond his illustration work, Hellman has drawn comic strips for DC Comics, Fantagraphics, Last Gasp, and other publishers. Presently, Hellman lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife and daughter.

	Sam Henderson Born in 1969, Sam Henderson has worked for NICKELODEON, NEW YORK PRESS, LA WEEKLY, DC COMICS, and...uh... SCREW. In 2001, he was a writer for SpongeBob Squarepants.

	Tim Lane Tim Lane’s first collection of graphic short stories, Abandoned Cars, featured noir-ish narratives united by their exploration of the great American mythological drama by way of the desperate and haunted characters that populate its pages. Lane’s characters exist on the margins of society—alienated, floating in the void between hope and despair, confused but introspective. Some of them are experiencing the aftermath of an existential car crash—those surreal moments after a car accident, when time slows down and you’re trying to determine what just happened and how badly you’re hurt. Others have gone off the deep end, or were never anywhere but the deep end. Some are ridiculous, others dignified in their efforts to struggle to make sense of, and cope with, the absurdities, outrages, ghosts, and poisons in their lives.

	Mats!? Born France in 1964, Mats produced his first cartoon 1970: scatological graffiti on the kindergarten blackboard. Titles he has worked on include: Prego, Ragu, San Fran Sicko, Last Gasp comix and stories, Hotwire, and Asiaddict : an illustrated Travelog.

	Jayr Pulga Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Jayr Pulga moved to NY when he was 8. He studied at the School of Visual Arts, where primarily under Art Spiegelman's tutelage he started doing comix in 1982. Jayr's comics and illustrations have been published in anthologies such as Raw, Bad News, Snake Eyes, Hotwire, The Ganzfeld, and periodicals such as The Village Voice, New York Times Book Review & New York Press.

	David Sandlin David Sandlin was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1956. In 1972, he moved to Alabama. He received a BA in art in 1979, and in 1980 he moved to New York City, where he now lives with his family. He teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Sandlin’s paintings, prints, books, and installations have been exhibited extensively in New York City and elsewhere in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Australia. Sandlin’s comics have been published in The Best American Comics 2009, Hotwire, RAW, Blab!, Strappazin, Snake Eyes, Zero Zero, and other publications. His most recent books include An Alphabetical Ballad of Carnality (2006, Fantagraphics), Swamp Preacher (2006, Fantagraphics), and Wonderfool World (2006, Butler Gallery), as well as his self-published series of artists books, A Sinner Progress. His work has also appeared in The Ganzfeld, The New Yorker, Spin, Harper’s, The New York Times, and other periodicals.

	R. Sikoryak R. Sikoryak is the author of Masterpiece Comics, published by Drawn and Quarterly. He presents his cartoon slide show series, Carousel, around the United States and Canada. His cartoon parodies and illustrations have also appeared in Nickelodeon Magazine, The New Yorker, The Onion, Mad, and many other publications; on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart; in the comics anthologies Drawn & Quarterly, Raw, Typhon, and Hotwire; as well as in various TV, film, and theater productions.

	Mark Dean Veca Mark Dean Veca was born in 1963 in Shreveport, Louisiana, and received his BFA in Painting at Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, CA. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. His work has been shown throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan at institutions such as PS1/MOMA, The Drawing Center, The Brooklyn Museum, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Reviews of Veca's work have appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, Juxtapoz, Artforum, Art in America, and Flash Art. He has received numerous awards including fellowships from The New York Foundation for the Arts in 1998 and 2002, as well as a grant from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation in 2006.

	Chadwick Whitehead Chadwick Whitehead animates, draws comics, makes prints and plays songs. He grew up mostly in Michigan and studied picture-making in Chicago, Tokyo and New York. He lives in Brooklyn, New York and loves his parents.

	Karl Wills Karl Wills is a comic artist from New Zealand. His work has been published in 'Hate' by Peter Bagge. Several of his cartoons have also appeared in Australian and Japanese anthologies. 'Jessica of the Schoolyard, is his series of 8-page comics laid in in the format of Tijuana bibles. He also works in animation.