Dean Haspiel

Beef with Tomato Dean Haspiel

Marc Notes: A native New York bruiser is fed up with life in the dregs of a drug-addled Alphabet City where his neighbors are shut-ins and his bicycle is always getting stolen. He escapes from Manhattan to make a fresh start in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, only to face a new strain of street logic, where most everything he encounters is not as it seems . Biographical Note: Emmy award winner and Eisner and Harvey Award nominee Dean Haspiel created BILLY DOGMA, illustrated for HBO's "Bored To Death," was a Master Artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, is a Yaddo fellow, a playwright ("Switch To Kill"), and is the co-founder of HANG DAI Editions. Dean's comics include The Fox with Mark Waid, The Alcoholic with Jonathan Ames and The Quitter with Harvey Pekar. Jonathan Ames is the author of "I Pass Like Night; The Extra Man; What s Not to Love?; My Less Than Secret Life; Wake Up, Sir!; I Love You More Than You Know; The Alcoholic;" and "The Double Life Is Twice As Good." He s the creator of the HBO(r) Original Series "Bored to Death" and "Blunt Talk" for Starz."Publisher Marketing: A native New York bruiser is fed up with life in the dregs of a drug-addled Alphabet City where his neighbors are shut-ins and his bicycle is always getting stolen. He escapes from Manhattan to make a fresh start in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, only to face a new strain of street logicwhere most everything he encounters is not as it seems. Emmy award-winning artist on HBO's "Bored To Death"Dean Haspiel's comics include "The Fox "with Mark Waid, "The Alcoholic "with Jonathan Ames, and "The Quitter "with Harvey Pekar." Contributor Bio:  Ames, Jonathan JONATHAN AMES is the author of "I Pass Like Night"; "The Extra Man"; "What's Not to Love?"; "My Less Than Secret Life"; "Wake Up, Sir!"; "I Love You More Than You Know"; "The Alcoholic; "and "The Double Life Is Twice As Good". He's the creator of the HBO(R) Original Series Bored to Death and has had two amateur boxing matches, fighting as "The Herring Wonder." For more information visit www.jonathanames.com.