ABOUT TOA
I draw comics and pictures in California. I am available for illustration, my clients have included Kaiser Permanente, Labor & Management Partnership, East Bay Express, North Bay Bohemian and Red Herring Magazine. My work has been featured at Giant Robot New York, Gallery of Sea & Heaven, STUDIO Gallery and in ANTHEM Magazine.
For professional inquiries or anything else write to me at: trevor.alixopulos (at) gmail.com
I'm interested in how icon and narrative can interact and swap roles. I want to work with broad human themes in my comics, while employing the medium's visual grammar to suggest the individual and internal. One thing I like about comics is how they stake out a common zone of understanding, while dramatizing those areas where understanding between people breaks down. I'm comfortable in the profane realm of the cartoon, where the word won't go; where language becomes sign, visual joke, enigmatic heraldry.
My recent graphic novel The Hot Breath of War is a set of stories grouped within a spectrum of passion and aggression. Engaging war from multiple perspectives, from participant to victim, it explores the euphemisms and symbols we use as incantations for conflict. HBOW was nominated for Outstanding Graphic Novel in the 2008 Ignatz Awards and featured on tcj.com's Top 100 Comics of the Decade. You can read more reviews of my work below.
-Trevor Alixopulos, 2010
RECENT INTERVIEWS
- Interview with Tom Spurgeon of The Comics Reporter
- Interview in the North Bay Bohemian
- Interview on the Inkstuds Podcast
- 20 Questions with Austin English
RECENT BOOKS & REVIEWS
My newer graphic novels are sold at finer book stores or just click the cover below to order them direct:
The Hot Breath of War (2008)
REVIEWS OF THE HOT BREATH OF WAR:
- 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"
Mine Tonight (2006)
REVIEWS OF MINE TONIGHT:
For my small press books and minicomics check out Global Hobo Comics Distro: http://hobocomics.com/artist/Alixopulos