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 | The Advocate | ACLU
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
123 | http://www.evergreenreview.com/123/index.html
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)
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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