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Hans Rickheit (born January 12, 1973) is an American cartoonist. ==Profile== Rickheit was originally a resident of Ashburnham, Massachusetts. He originally self-published minicomics which presented dark vignettes and short stories, many of them directly inspired by dreams. He also produced short films, mostly through community television stations. Rickheit followed these up with a longer work, ''Kill, Kill, Kill''. In the late 1990s, Rickheit moved to the Boston area where he was deeply involved with the Zeitgeist Gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. With the support and assistance of the gallery's owner, Alan Nidle, he started a publication the short-lived publication ''Cambridge Inferno'' for more general audiences as a vehicle to showcase local cartoonists. He was also the gallery's projectionist, and programmed series' and comics festivals there and in the greater Boston area. He also dabbled in music and performance art, playing "Doctor Selenium" in a performance collaboration with musician Katt Hernandez, and working on Empire S.N.A.F.U. Restoration Project events. In 2001, he self-published the first edition of his original graphic novel ''Chloe''. A Xeric Foundation grant enabled him to produce a second and revised trade paperback edition of ''Chloe'' which received wider distribution and favorable reviews by the comics press. In 2003, Rickheit produced a color wraparound cover for the zine ''The Comics Interpreter'', which in that issue also published a long interview with him. More recently, Rickheit has had short stories published in a number of alternative small press comics anthologies and periodicals and in the ''The Stranger'' weekly. Rickheit re-located Philadelphia after the Zeitgeist Gallery shut down in 2006, where he still released the occasional issue of ''Chrome Fetus'', his showcase for his own shorter works. From 2001 to 2009 he made performance art and designed album cover art for Katt Hernandez, as well as designing cover art for Psychotic Quartet and most recently Archer Spade. ''The Squirrel Machine'' is his longest graphic novel to date, and has been published by Fantagraphics Books. in 2009. In early 2010, he returned to rural Massachusetts to live in a town so remote that it does not exist on most maps. He presently creates ''Ectopiary'' and "Cochlea and Eustachia"- both webcomics released in semi-regular installments. A compilation of his earlier short works entitled "Folly" was released by Fantagraphics Books April 2012. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hans Rickheit」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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