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Nov 22, 1974 Denver, Colorado, United States 49 years old
American cartoonist, archivist, and sound artist
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About Ethan Persoff
- Ethan Persoff (born November 24, 1974 in Denver, Colorado) is an American cartoonist, archivist, and sound artist.
- His work as an archivist includes a complete digitization of Paul Krassner's counterculture magazine The Realist, and the website Comics with Problems, which has been featured on multiple segments of The Rachel Maddow Show.
- As a comics artist, he has been published by Fantagraphics, and received media attention for his website projects, including two projects with artist and co-collaborator Scott Marshall; a downloadable Halloween mask based on Senator Larry Craig and a Tijuana Bible based on George W.
- Bush and John McCain.The Larry Craig Halloween Mask, a downloadable paper mask designed to be fit over a paper bag, received widespread media attention, including Air America, CBS News, and the Washington papers Politico and Roll Call.
- Other satires on Persoff's website include an entire cosmetic line of Sarah Palin lipstick, and an audio piece of an angered Mitt Romney supporter blended with orchestral music that went quickly viral on the Internet until being forced offline.From 2009 through 2011, Persoff served as art director for Barney Rosset's Evergreen Review.
- While working for the magazine, he also contributed two pieces of writing, a profile of the beat poet recording project Paris Records and a report on George W Bush's first post-presidential appearance as a motivational speaker, entitled "A Day Spent In Hell."Since 2013, Persoff has been working on a comics biography with Scott Marshall of underground journalist John Wilcock.
- The strip is serialized on the website Boing Boing, and has been recognized by Print, The New Yorker and New York magazines.
