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All fan, business, and groupie e-mail should be directed to the following address: Messages including the phrase "We can't pay you anything, but it'll be great exposure" will not be answered. Tim Kreider's literary agent is the fabulous Meg Thompson of the Einstein Thompson Agency. You can contact her at: . Letters written on pieces of paper and packages will still be delivered by the U.S. Postal Service to: P.O. Box 422 Ms. Phelætia Czochula-Hautpänz is no longer associated with this website and cannot receive personal messages or proposals of marriage through it. |
Tim Kreider was born and educated in Baltimore, Maryland. His cartoon, The Pain--When Will It End?, has run in the Baltimore City Paper since 1997 and has also appeared in the Jackson Planet Weekly, The New York Press, The Stranger, and Philadelphia Weekly. Fantagraphics Books has published two collections of his cartoons, The Pain--When Will It End? (2004) and Why Do They Kill Me? (2005), and he was included in Ted Rall's anthology Attitude 2: The New Subversive Alternative Cartoonists (2004). His essays have appeared in The New York Times, Film Quarterly, The Comics Journal, Jump Cut, and Lip, and have been anthologized in Depth of Field: Stanley Kubrick and the Uses of History (University of Wisconsin Press), Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 162 (The Gale Group), Multicultural Film: A Reader (Pearson Custom Publishing), and The Education of a Cartoonist (Allworth Press). He has appeared on Nightline and delivered commentary for ABC World News Online. He divides his time between New York City and an undisclosed location on the Chesapeake Bay. | Phelætia Czochula-Hautpänz was born in 1980 in what is now part of Hungary. She is nominally the fourteenth Contessa of the Czochula line, although she does not use her formal title. She read serials like Asterix and Tintin as a girl and became interested in bande dessinee for adults while studying literature at the University of Turin. She went on to study semiotics and the graphic novel at the University of Paris, where she wrote her master's thesis on The Story of O. Her first graphic novella, a noir titled Le Gros Homme Seul Pleure, was well-received in Europe. She was interned to Tim Kreider from 2005 through 2007 under the auspices of the Paris International Mentoring Program. She believes that comics creators are underappreciated as artists in the United States and was grateful for this opportunity to promote their work and learn from a professional whose work she respects. She is currently at work on her first graphic novel in English, The Cat of the Man Who Did Not Love Anything. |
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