Tom Hart - 90s Mini-Comics Oral History Archives

Tom Hart is the founder of The Sequential Artists Workshop and the subject of our beta test of the 90s Mini-Comic Oral History Archives.

He is the creator of Hutch Owen, Love Looks Left, Wodaabe and many mini-comics in the 90s and after. He is also the NY Times #1 best-selling author of a graphic memoir about his daughter, Rosalie Lightning.

Tom was an early recipient of a Xeric Grant for self-publishing cartoonists, and has been on many best-of lists in The Comics Journal and other comix publications.

He has been called "One of the great underrated cartoonists of our time" by Eddie Campbell and "One of my favorite cartoonists of the decade" by Scott McCloud.

Before founding SAW, Tom was a core instructor at New York City's School of Visual Arts for 10 years, teaching cartooning to undergraduates, working adults and teens alike. Among his students were Dash Shaw, Sarah Glidden, Box Brown and other published cartoonists like Leslie Stein, Jessica Fink,  Josh Bayer, Brendan Leach and many others.

Learn more about Tom by tuning in to his oral history below.

Thanks for listening!

The 90s Mini-Comics Oral History aims to collect the stories of ANYONE who made self-published mini-comics in the roughly 10 years before the broad acceptance of the internet (the 90s, give or take).