welcome to one of the johns
my name is jonathan hill and i'm an illustrator/cartoonist living in portland, oregon. some of my clients include fantagraphics books, tugboat press, image comics, the portland mercury, , the willamette week, the seattle metropolitan, the asian reporter, mun 2 [a subsidiary of NBC universal], hollywood entertainment, and hyphen magazine.
2009 will see my comics published in anthologies by three rivers press, an imprint of random house, and dark horse comics.
if you are interested in contacting me with work, comments, or hate mail, please e-mail me at jonathan [at] oneofthejohns.com.
news
may 27th, 2009 a.d.
working on art full time is a lot harder than i thought it would be. i thought that i would have a bunch of free time and lots of energy to work on my own projects... that's not the case. anyhow, big news to share anyhow: first second books is going to be the publisher of americus! mk and i signed out contracts last week making it official!
the only bad news? it most likely won't be out until 2012.
april 26th, 2009 a.d.
i finally updated a few new illustrations in the art section. there were some other ones that i also posted over on the brownpaperbag site.
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april 2nd, 2009 a.d.
haven't updated here or on the brownpaperbag site for awhile, but i'm hoping to remedy that soon. the willamette week, a local weekly newspaper, has been sending some work my way, so when i get around to it, i'll put some of that up in the art section. i took a couple of months of from work, so i should have more time to be doing personal projects. stay tuned, though not too frequently, because you might get disappointed.
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january 6th, 2009 a.d.
happy new year! things are off to a great start as i just finished some work for hollywood entertainment & game crazy, which you can see in the art section. if you're interested, i'm posting the process behind the illustrations and some notes over at the brownpaperbag site.
i would also like to give a shout out to 2008. it was a very, very good year to me. i got to travel a bunch [the galapagos and new york city!], mk and i were nominated for an ignatz award for our work on americus [best story], i was published by fantagraphics [BEASTS! Book Two] and image comics [Popgun Volume 2], and life is generally really awesome and filled with lots and lots of people that i love.
anyhow, here's to 2009!
and here's some upcoming things to look out for:
- there's a BEASTS! show at giant robot in san francisco starting january 17th. i won't be able to make it to this one, but it looks like it's going to be super rad.
- i saw you... should be coming out in february. i only have a two page story in it, but there's lots and lots of other great cartoonists in there.
