Ethan
Persoff
- http://www.ep.tc
P.O.Box 7254, Austin TX 78713 USA
Charlie's Apartment, full set design. Click for full size.
Our archival site, "Comics with Problems"
discussed and performed on the MSNBC Rachel Maddow Show
Bibliography of work, 1995-to present:
WRITING:
"Paul Krassner, An Appreciation" (2019, The Comics Journal)
https://www.tcj.com/paul-krassner-dead-at-87-an-appreciation/
Memory of knowing Paul Krassner, following his passing 2019.
http://www.evergreenreview.com/120/paris-records.html
Profile of recording label for Burroughs, Ginsberg, Terry Southern, others.
"A Day Spent In Hell" (2009, Evergreen Review #121)
http://www.evergreenreview.com/121/a-day-spent-in-hell.html
Attending Bush's First Public Appearance as Motivational Speaker.
"Skin So Thin, It's Inside Out" (2017, The American Bystander #4)
Interview with Paul Krassner on career and Donald Trump
More information
MUSIC:
Main Music Page
horse-000 - SAVE THIS FOR LATER, It's Not Music: 1993-1997 Chicago
horse-001 - Forty Minutes, Forty Memories: Horrible Unlistenable Music (1999)
horse-002 - SNAP! (2001) click
horse-003 - 25 Lessons in Hypnotism (2002) click
horse-004 - "I Stayed Home ..." (2003) click
horse-005 - SPREE: An Escape From Reality (2005) click
horse-006 - Disneyland (single, 2007) click
horse-007 - "Dinger" (8-second loop, 2008) click
horse-008/009 - LIVE AT HARRY'S LOFT (New full length, 2010) click
horse-010 - "Obama Was Re-Elected, Woman Pissed (with orchestra)" (Post-election item, Banned twice!, 2012) - currently unavailable online!
horse-011 - I Want to Make You Happy Tonight (2013) click
horse-012 - RADIO HOUR (Episodes 1-9) 2014-2016 click
horse-013 - Electronic Recordings, 2008-2016 (compilation of new and unreleased items) click
horse-014 - THE BUREAU (2018) comic book and 9.5 hour album click
horse-015 - An Evening Walk: One Hour with the SOMA ETHER (2019) click
horse-016 - SHORT STORIES (2019) click
horse-017 - This is the TRUTH! (Music for Pandemics and Home Cooking, 2020) click
horse-018 - Spoken Word with Electronics (Collection of episodes, 2020-current) click - Look for Episode Packs
horse-019 -
THE APARTMENT— A Recovered Memory of Chicago, 1996 click - reassembled album from discovered Zip Disks
horse-020 -
A CHANCE OF FROG - Live at Spiderhouse Ballroom (Austin, TX 03-07-23) click - Live album
horse-021 -
THE RECOVER OF CHARLIE PICKLE - Full albums including PDFs of print volumes click - Look for individual books
COMICS, 2001-current:
Teddy (2001) - http://www.ep.tc/teddy.html
A Dog and His Elephant (2003) - http://www.ep.tc/dog
The Recovery of Charlie Pickle (2005) - http://www.ep.tc/cpickle
RADIO WIRE (2013-2016) - http://www.ep.tc/radio-wire
previous list of comics found at bottom of page at this link
Collaboration with Al Columbia:
The Pogostick (2003-2004) Fantagraphics Books
Collaboration with Scott Marshall:
Poodle Samizdat (2006) and Two
Poodle Cartoons (2006)
The U.S. Senator Larry Craig Mugshot Halloween Mask (2007) - media coverage)
NOW COMPLETE! John Wilcock: New York Years (2011-2020) - http://www.ep.tc/john-wilcock - Available on Amazon
ANTHOLOGIES:
Zero Zero # 17, 23, 26 Fantagraphics Books ('97-99; #26 has a Teddy story)
BARK! # 2,3,4 ('96-98) Bark Press
Comix 2000 ('00) L'Association (contains 1999 Teddy story)
Drawn Bits ('02) Drawn Bits (contains 2001 Teddy story)
Bush Junta: A Field Guide to Corruption in Government ('04) Fantagraphics Books click
for info
Pictures & Words ('05) Laurence King / Yale Press click
for info
Blurred
Vision #2, 3, 4 ('07-'08) Blurred Books (contains Dog and His Elephant excerpts) - click for info
L'Horreur est Humaine Vol.2 No. 1 ('08) (contains Charlie Pickle) Editions Humeurs click for info
Mutation Zine (single page, 2014) click for info
A Treasury of Mini Comics, Volume Two (2015) Fantagraphics Books
Best American Comics 2017 (Houghton Mifflin) click for info
New: The Dreadfuls Special, 2021 (Rotland Press, two pieces) click for info
ARCHIVING:
The Other Scenes Inventory Report (2021 - current) http://www.ep.tc/other-scenes
The Realist Archive Project (2007 - completed 2010) http://www.ep.tc/realist
Comics With Problems (Feb 2005 - current) http://www.ep.tc/problems
PUBLICATIONS:
The Realist Cartoons (2016) - Fantagraphics Books
SPECIAL PROJECT:
Redesigned Evergreen Review, May 2009 - August 2011
118 | http://www.evergreenreview.com/118/index.html
119 | http://www.evergreenreview.com/119/contents.html
120 | http://www.evergreenreview.com/120/index.html
121 | http://www.evergreenreview.com/121/index.html
122 | http://www.evergreenreview.com/122/index.html
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124 | http://www.evergreenreview.com/124/index.html
125 | http://www.evergreenreview.com/125/index.html
126 | http://www.evergreenreview.com/126/index.html
ELECTRONICS / COMMERCIAL DESIGN:
2014 - Sound Designer, Honeywell Lyric Thermostat (all system sounds, including dial behavior and welcome chime)
ONLINE WEEKLY:
A Dog and His Elephant, October 2002 to May 2003, serializer.net
John Wilcock: New York Years, January 2013-2020, boingboing.net
NEWSPAPER
STRIPS:
Musical Chairs, September 1994 - May 1995, "F" Newsmagazine, Chicago
IL
Teddy, January 1999, New City, Chicago IL
Teddy, July 2000 - October 2000, Austin-American Statesman, Austin TX
SYNDICATION:
Boing Boing (John Wilcock comic) 2012-2020
The American Bystander (John Wilcock comic) 2015-2020
Spoken Word with Electtronics (Podcast) 2020-present
Exhibitions
1999 - Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago - Comics Day, Single day event
2005 - "Spirit of the Harveys" Exhibit - Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, NYC
2005 - London Design Festival - "Pictures & Words" Exhibit - Magma, UK
2006 - "ARTLINK HOSPITAL ARTS" - Royal Edinburgh Hospital Exhibit, Scotland - http://www.functionsuite.com/
2007 - Cheltenham Illustration Awards, Invited Professional Exhibition - info - gallery of images
2008 - Dublab and Creative Commons, "Into Infinity" (ear) - intoinfinity.org
2016 - Tribute to Guido Crepax/Valentina, Finland Comic Book Festival (exhibition)
Recognition
2002 - SXSW Web Award "Best Weird/Extreme" - Teddy
2003 - SXSW Web Award "Best Weird/Extreme" - A Dog and His Elephant
2004 - Harvey Awards Nomination "Best New Series" - Pogostick
2008 - 12th Annual Webby Awards, "Best Copy/Writing", Official Honoree, Archivist, The Realist Archive Project
2017 - Eisner Awards Nomination "Best Archival Collection/Project" - The Realist Cartoons
Film Screenings
2006 - Galapagos Art Space, "Poodle Samizdat", Brooklyn NYC
2006 - DC Shorts Film Festival, "Poodle Samizdat", Washington DC
2006 - Harry's Loft, "Two Poodle Cartoons" w/ special guests, Austin TX
2007 - Short Film Corner, Festival de Cannes, "Poodle Samizdat", Cannes France
Miscellaneous and Special Projects
2008 - Document Provider, "Sex: The Revolution" - VH1 Documentary Films and The Sundance Channel
2011 - Film Prop and Document Provider, "The Strange History of Don't Ask Don't Tell" - HBO Documentary Films
2011 - Film wrap party t-shirt for "The Surrogate" (Later called "The Sessions") - Such Much Films/Rhino Films
2014 - Included supplemental work in "Impromptu Man", biography of JL Moreno (two pages from John Wilcock comic)
2016 - Document Provider, "Did It! From Yippie To Yuppie: Jerry Rubin, An American Revolutionar" - Fantagraphics Books
2016 - Tribute page to Guido Crepax for special insert of Complete Crepax (2016) - Fantagraphics click for info
Archival Usage of Items from this Website on TV:
2007 - Larry Craig Halloween Mask - CBS News
2008 - George Bush Tijuana Bibles at DNC - CSPAN
2008 - Sex: The Revolution - VH1 Documentary Films and The Sundance Channel
2010 - Rachel Maddow Show, two episodes for Comics with Problems - MSNBC
2011 - The Strange History of Don't Ask Don't Tell - HBO Documentary Films
2013 - The Colbert Report, one episode - Used the MLK Comic Book as screen prop - Comedy Central
Academic / Press Mention:
2013 - "Quantifying and Visualizing the History of Public Health Comics" - University of South Florida
2014 - "Straddlers: A Report from the 2014 Comics & Medicine Conference" - The Comics Journal
2014 - "The Unauthorized Archivist" - Washington State University Computers and Writing Conference
2019 - "Ethan Persoff’s The Bureau Is a 202-Track Album, an 88-Page Comic and Now a Radio Drama - The Dallas Observer
Interviews:
2007 - Yahoo Picks Profile for People on the Web
2007 - The Ephemera Blog - "Comics, Condoms, & Dirty Stuff - An Interview with Ethan Persoff" (part one and two)
2014 - Interviewed contributor, "An Uncensored Look at Banned Comics" - Print Magazine (February 2014)
2014 - Podcast Interview with "Tell Me a Story/The LEFT Show" - JM Bell (click for audio)
2015 - Interview with Yorokubu.es - ¿Tienes problemas? Lee un tebeo
2016 - Interview with Flashbak.com - Comics with Problems: A Comic To Cure EVERY Problem
2016 - Interviewed contributor, "We Told You So, Comics as Art" - Fantagraphics Books (2016)
2021 - Two part video interview with Gerry Fialka of laughtears.com: Part One and Part Two (Youtube)
2022 - Alumni Profile, School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Profile by Michaela Chan (Awesome illustration by Ketaki Kulkarni, thank you)
2023 - Discussion with PRINT Magazine: The Daily Heller: Look Him Up, John Wilcock, Master of the Underground
2023 - Appreciated longform interview with CANON from Colin Blanchette
Public Appearances
2011 - Panelist, "Comics & Medicine" Conference, Northwestern School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
2015 - Panelist, "Comics Librarians Panel", Denver Comic Con (Page 23 Event) - Denver, Colorado
2017 - Invited Speaker, "New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium" - Parsons School of Design, NYC - more information
Political Jokes and Pornography
2009 - The Glenn Beck Diaper Mask (Halloween)
2008 - Sarah Palin Lipstick Collection
2008 - Rotten Monsters (Halloween)
2008 - The 1934 George Bush John McCain Tijuana Bible
2016 - Trump Tracts: Donald Trump Religious Tracts
ONLINE HISTORY
1996-2001 - http://www.dimensional.com/~mpersoff - original website, archive forthcoming
2001-current - http://www.ep.tc - personal website
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