Lloyd Dangle

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Lloyd Dangle
Lloyd Dangle at USC Creativity & Collaboration 2010 (cropped).jpg
At USC Creativity & Collaboration in 2010
Born (1961-05-13) May 13, 1961 (age 62)
Michigan, U.S.
Area(s) Cartoonist
Notable works
Troubletown
Spouse(s)Hae Yuon Kim [1]
www.lloyddangle.com

Lloyd Dangle (born May 13, 1961) is an American writer and cartoonist, illustrator, and political satirist.

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Early life and career

Lloyd Dangle was born on May 13, 1961. [1] He graduated from Ann Arbor Huron High School in 1979, [2] and attended the University of Michigan School of Art, graduating with a BFA in 1983. [1] He was editor and contributor to the U of M's Gargoyle Humor Magazine .

Dangle worked as a designer, paste-up artist, and cartoonist for the Michigan Voice , an alternative newspaper in Flint, Michigan, that was founded and edited by future filmmaker Michael Moore; [3] he served as a sound recordist on Moore's first movie, Roger and Me .[ citation needed ]

After leaving Michigan in 1983 he moved to New York City and worked for magazines and newspapers including Elle , Manhattan, Inc. , Nuclear Times , and The Village Voice as a production artist. [4] [5]

Advocacy projects

Dangle has contributed to AIDS education efforts, particularly for IV drug users, including art-directing the handbook The Works, used in prisons and drug rehabilitation clinics. He created a billboard, TV, and print campaign around a superhero, Bleachman, whose duty was to teach IV drug users to clean their needles at a time when needle exchange programs were illegal in California. [6] [ citation needed ]

Dangle has served as Northern California chapter president and as national president of the Graphic Artists Guild, [7] [1] having helped found the former. He also lobbied the United States Congress in favor of the unsuccessful Freelance Artists and Writers Self Protection Act, introduced by Michigan Senator John Conyers in 2002, which intended to extend collective bargaining rights to freelance artists and writers negotiating with large media companies.

Troubletown

Troubletown was a syndicated weekly comic strip by Dangle. Most strips involve political satire from a liberal perspective. Begun in 1988 at the San Francisco Bay Guardian , [3] it went on to run in many alternative press weeklies, including The Stranger , The Portland Mercury , and the Austin Chronicle . It also appeared regularly in The Progressive magazine.

Dangle retired Troubletown at the end of April 2011. [3] [8]

Several book collections of Troubletown have been published. It was also featured in the anthology Attitude: The New Subversive Cartoonists. [9]

Publications

Comics

Books

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References

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  2. "Ann Arbor Public Schools Notable Alumni Archived 2016-10-13 at the Wayback Machine , Retrieved on 13 October 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 Cavna, Michael (March 28, 2011). "End of the Line: Lloyd Dangle will end 'Troubletown' comic in April [Updated]". The Washington Post .
  4. "Staff". Nuclear Times . Vol. 2. September 1984. pp. 2, 9. Retrieved November 22, 2023 via Google Books.
  5. 1 2 Currie, Carole (August 28, 1996). "New cookbook offers comic relief in kitchen". Asheville Citizen-Times . p. 17. Retrieved November 22, 2023 via Newspapers.com.
  6. Mena, Jesus (March 21, 1988). "'Bleachman' tries to persuade needle-users to clean up acts". Oakland Tribune . pp. A7, A8 . Retrieved November 22, 2023 via Newspapers.com.
  7. "Advocacy Timeline". Graphic Artists Guild. Retrieved May 31, 2023. 2003 ... Guild President Lloyd Dangle, responded to work-for-hire contracts being forced on journalists at Ski and Skiing magazine by parent company AOL/Time Warner.
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  9. Attitude: The New Subversive Cartoonists. NBM Publishing. June 2002. ISBN   1-56163-317-8.
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