Justin Hall | |
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Born | Justin Robinson Hall February 14, 1971 |
Nationality | American |
Area(s) | Cartoonist |
Notable works | No Straight Lines |
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Justin Robinson Hall (born February 14, 1971) is an American cartoonist and educator. He has written and illustrated autobiographical and erotic comics, and edited No Straight Lines , a scholarly overview of LGBT comics of the previous 40 years. He is an Associate Professor of Comics and Writing-and-Literature at the California College of the Arts. [1]
Hall began creating comics in 2001. [2] His first published work was A Sacred Text, about seeing the Dead Sea Scrolls in Israel, published with funding from a Xeric Grant. He followed this with True Travel Tales, an anecdotal series about more of his international backpacking experiences. [3] Next he and Dave Davenport produced Hard to Swallow, a 4-issue series of gay erotica [4] that was later collected into a single volume by Northwest Press in 2016. [5]
He served as the talent relations chair for the LGBT advocacy organization Prism Comics. [3] [4] He published Glamazonia about a caricatural trans superhero, in 2010; [6] it was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. [4] His work has been published in the San Francisco Bay Guardian , The Book of Boy Trouble, The Best Erotic Comics series, and Best American Comics 2006. [4]
In 2006, he curated the art exhibition "No Straight Lines: Queer Culture in Comics" with Andrew Farago of the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco. [2] [3] This led to the 2012 book No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics , a hardcover overview of LGBTQ comics history published by Fantagraphics, [7] for which he won a Lambda Literary Award and an Eisner nomination.
He began teaching comics at the California College of the Arts in the early 2010s; in 2014, he added instruction for a Masters-level degree in the subject. [8] In 2016 he received a grant as a Fulbright scholar to guest lecture at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. [9]
In February 2013, Hall co-curated with Rick Worley the San Francisco art exhibit "Batman on Robin", featuring works exploring the theme of homoeroticism between Batman and Robin. [10] [11]
Beginning in 2015, he has co-organized – with Jennifer Camper – "Queers & Comics", a biennial conference of international LGBTQ cartoonists, academics, and other professionals, focusing on LGBTQ themes in comics and LGBTQ comics creators. [12] [13] [14]
Hall is married. [1] He and his husband live in San Francisco. [1]