Tim Fish

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Tim Fish
Born1970 (age 5253)
New Hampshire
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Writer, penciler, inker
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Tim Fish (a pen name; born 1970) is a comic book author and artist and playwright, known for the comics Cavalcade of Boys and its spin-off graphic novels, short stories for various anthologies and the original graphic novel Liebestrasse , which was nominated for both a Tripwire Award for Best Graphic Novel and a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book.

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Early life

Fish was born in 1970 and attended the University of New Hampshire where he had a twice-weekly comic strip running in the college newspaper, The New Hampshire . Tim began drawing strip comics at a young age, eventually evolving to mini comics and graphic novels.

Career

Fish is known for his slice-of-life/romance print comic, Cavalcade of Boys , which has been released in trade paperback format, as well is its spin-off graphic novels. Comics by Fish appeared regularly in the Boston LGBT newspaper Bay Windows and in the Brazilian magazine DOM from 2007 to 2008.

He has contributed to several anthologies and adapted an excerpt of Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights for Seven Stories Press. For Lionforge, he was an artist on an officially licensed comic series based on the NBC TV series Saved by the Bell from 2014 to 2015. In 2022, Dark Horse published Liebestrasse the graphic novel he co-created with Greg Lockard which was named by the American Library Association on their official list of graphic novels for adults in 2022. [1]

Fish was awarded a Fulbright research grant in affiliation with Trinity College Dublin. [2]

Personal life

Fish, who is openly gay, [3] has lived in New Hampshire, St. Louis, San Diego, Connecticut, and Somerville, Massachusetts. [2]

Works

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