Drop me a line at:
trevor (dot) alixopulos (at) gmail.com
Recent clients include the New Yorker, Designing Justice + Designing Spaces, Awry, Popula, Kaiser Permanente, Los Angeles Review of Books, Fantagraphics Books, Turner Broadcasting, Seven Stories Press, Playboy, North Bay Bohemian, and Scout Books.
My art has been featured at RGB Gallery, Eckhaus Gallery, Giant Robot New York, Charles M. Schulz Museum, Gallery of Sea & Heaven and STUDIO Gallery. I was a writer, editor and designer for Popula.
My comics all start from an obscure place, employing idiosyncratic characters and milieus that resonate with some unusual significance to me, and the journey of the work is in how they become knowable to the reader. I start a strip hoping to search, to reveal and to inhabit unfamiliar perspectives.
I have tried to create comics that are supeficially straightforward cartoons, with a frictionless reading flow, that nonetheless on completion leave the reader a bit confounded, with a different story told by the sum than by the parts. The language of the cartoon makes a deal with the reader as to how it will be "read" and what it represents, with terms always subject to change.
My limited edition collection of nightlife comics, Lipstick Traces was listed among the top comics of 2021 by the contributors of The Comics Journal. My graphic novel The Hot Breath of War was nominated for Outstanding Graphic Novel in the 2008 Ignatz Awards and featured on tcj.com's "Top 100 Comics of the Decade."
PRESS
- Interview with Tom Spurgeon of The Comics Reporter
- Interview on the Inkstuds Podcast
- 20 Questions with Austin English
BOOKS & REVIEWS
- The Best Comics of 2021 "Lipstick Traces is a great book that merits broader consideration and a broader audience."
- tcj.com review by Andrew White "It has a freedom, a looseness, a vitality that I find irresistible."
- Goodreads reviews
- comic critique "Using the definitively ephemeral medium to convey the fragility of life and progress, Alixopulos has slyly created a durable monument to saneness and humanity."
- tcj.com's top 100 comics of the decade "A thoughtful, provocative book about the intersection between the personal and political"
- madinkbeard.com "Strange yet moving."
- the comics reporter "I'm not totally confident about anything where this book is concerned, except that it surprised me and I think it might be very good."
- the daily crosshatch "A book that demands to be experienced"
