Kazimieras G. Prapuolenis
Kaz ( born 1959 as the son of Lithuanian refugees in Hoboken, New Jersey, whose real name is Casimir G. Prapuolenis ) is an American underground cartoonist. He lives and works in Manhattan's Upper West Side in New York City.
Career
In the second year of his studies at the New York School of Visual Arts ( where he attended Art Spiegelman's and Harvey Kurtz Mans courses on drawing comics ) Kaz was first published in the magazine The New York Rocker, 1980, also in RAW.
Great influence on Kaz ' own art had, among other things Elzie Segar's early work on Popeye, George Herriman Krazy Kat, Chester Gould's Dick Tracy, Ernie Bush Nancy Miller and Robert Crumb's work.
From 1987 to 1989 Kaz moderated by Chris T is the radio show The Nightmare lounge on the free-form radio station WFMU in the well -known artists such as Peter Bagge, Rob Williams, Gary Panter, Mark Newgarden, Joe Coleman and the Friedman brothers were interviewed.
1991 Kaz began work on his comic strip Underworld which is published weekly since 1992. Meanwhile, four anthologies have been published by Underworld by Fantagraphics Books. In the early nineties Kaz also released his own anthology, Snake Eyes, which was discontinued due to organizational difficulties after only three published issues.
He also worked at Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants and for Nickelodeon 's kids magazine, designed the cover art for Mark Leyners novel My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist, working on trading card sets for Topps Trading Cards, for Pee -Wee Hennan designs with Gary Panter and remains still at a variety of other projects involved, such as the production of one 's own animated series.
His comic strips appeared, among other things in the East Village Eye, in the New York Press, in Weirdo, Eclipse, Bad News, Details, The New Yorker, Swank, Screw, Bridal Guide, National Lampoon and Zero Zero.
Bibliography
In Germany Kaz 's works have so far been only partially published in the magazine STRAPAZIN. The following list is limited to the major U.S. comic publications. They were exclusively published by Fantagraphics.