Jim Rugg is an Eisner and Ignatz Award winning cartoonist, designer, zinemaker, and illustrator. His books include Alien Disclosure, Hulk Grand Design, Street Angel, the PLAIN Janes, Conspiracy Comics, True Crime Comics, 1986 zine, BW, Afrodisiac, Adults Only, Supermag, Octobriana 1976, and Rambo 3.5. He is the co-creator of YouTube’s Cartoonist Kayfabe channel. He is also part of Power Pulp Comics, a new distributor of self-published comics. His comics are part of the Smithsonian permanent collection, the National Archives, and the Heinz History Center. He taught visual storytelling at the School of Visual Arts and the Animation Workshop in Denmark. He loves comic books, zines, lettering, podcasts, running, pro-wrestling, pizza, and cats. Rugg lives and draws in Pittsburgh.
Jim Rugg will appear at Word of South with Bryan Moss, Naomi Franquiz, and Daniel Bedrosian in our special session on graphic novels and comic book writers.