David Rees (cartoonist)

David Thomas Rees ( born June 22, 1972 in Chapel Hill (North Carolina), USA) is an American comic book artist and writer.

Life

In his youth, Rees was an avid reader of comics, such as Rex Morgan, MD., He received his college degree at Oberlin College in Oberlin (Ohio ), where he already excelled in drawing comics for the college newspaper. His professional development has led him through a marginal activity at Citicorp to post a researcher at the magazines Maxim and Martha Stewart Weddings. Since then, Rees was dismissed from the last magazine, he is self-employed.

Work

To sharpen About Rees ' first book about the art, pencils, critics are so far agree that it is a crazy idea in a little scientific form. The existing since 2010, Artisanal Pencil Sharpening decorated by Rees Service offers a craftsmanship carried out Spitzung for submitted to the artist pencils. For the price of at least 35.00 U.S. $ the sharpened pencil, the incurred residues of wood and graphite together with a tipping certificate in a plastic tube from the representative of the centuries-old craft of Bleistiftanspitzens from his home in Beacon ( New York) will be sent.

Since 2005, Rees blogs for The Huffington Post about social and political issues.

The 2013 launched webseries code Fellas of Wired magazine is written by Rees.

Bibliography

• Get Your War On. Soft Skull, Brooklyn, New York City 2002, ISBN 1-887128 -76- X.
• My New Fighting Technique Is Unstoppable. Riverhead, New York City 2003, ISBN 1-57322-373-5.
• Ditto, 2004, ISBN 1-57322-382-4.
• Get Your War On II Riverhead, New York City 2004, ISBN 1-59448-048-6.
• Get Your War On: The Definite Account of the War on Terror, 2001-2008. Soft Skull, Brooklyn, New York City 2008, ISBN 978-1-59376-213-1.

• How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical and Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening. Melville House, Brookly, New York City 2012, ISBN 978-1-61219-040-2. The art of a pencil tip. Theory and practice the art of pencil Pitzens for writers, artists, entrepreneurs, architects, craftsmen, lawyers, civil servants and many more: A practical and theoretical treatise, translated by Uta Goridis and Egbert Hörmann. Walde Graf at Metrolit Verlag, Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8493-0045-6.