Small Press Spotlight
featuring Fredo
Opens September 25, 2004
Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco
Beginning on September 25, 2004, the Cartoon Art Museum's ongoing Small Press Spotlight will feature the art of Frederick Noland, who publishes comics under the name Fredo. This showcase features highlights from Fredo's long career as an award-winning independent cartoonist.
Fredo was awarded the prestigious Xeric Grant in 2000, which he used to self-publish
Shpilkes, a one-man anthology comic that runs the gamut from autobiography to workaday extraterrestrials to the roots music/comic crossover "Stagger Lee". A second anthology in 2002 featured longer, more realized vignettes, marked by Fredo's preoccupation with the downtrodden, disenfranchised and degenerate.
Since 2002, Fredo has published work in several comics anthologies, including the
Penny Dreadful Travel Guides,
Not My Small Diary and
Legal Action Comics. His extensive freelance illustration work includes regular contributions to the Bay Area's
Kitchen Sink Magazine and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund periodical
Busted.
Most recently, Fredo has completed two volumes of a mini-comics trilogy exploring the dirty underbelly of the collective American subconscious, begun in 2003 with
Fellowship and continuing with this year's Southern Blues/Gothic story
Midnight Creep. Spring 2005 will see Fredo's return to full-size publications with
Black Sheep, a continuing series published under his own Post Apocalyptic Funhouse imprint.
Fredo lives in Oakland with his lovely wife of three years, Vanessa, an accomplished visual artist, and their two cats Eno and Julia, who don't do much of anything aside from occasionally redecorating the litter box.
To view additional works by Fredo, please visit his
website.
About the Small Press Spotlight:
San Francisco has been a hotbed of innovative, groundbreaking comic art since the late 1800s with the advent of the modern comic strip. In the 1960s, the Bay Area gained further notoriety when cartoonists like Robert Crumb, Spain Rodriguez, Victor Moscoso, and Trina Robbins launched the underground comix movement from San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. Today, some of the biggest names in alternative and small-press comics hail from the Bay Area, and The Cartoon Art Museum's Small Press Spotlight will focus on these talented individuals.
The Small Press Spotlight features four different artists each year. Several examples of each cartoonist's work will be showcased in each installment.
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