John Porcellino
| John Porcellino | |
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Porcellino, photographed at the 2004 Alternative Press Expo (APE) in San Francisco.
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September 18, 1968 Chicago, Illinois |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist |
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Notable works
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King-Cat Comics |
| Awards | Ignatz Award, 2005 |
| http://www.king-cat.net | |
John Porcellino (born September 18, 1968, in Chicago, Illinois) is a popular creator of minicomics. Porcellino's self-published, photocopied, mostly autobiographical series King-Cat Comics is among the best-known and longest-running minicomics produced today. Porcellino created King-Cat in May 1989, and to date has self-published 76 issues.
Porcellino grew up in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, with his sister. Porcellino has suffered from major depression since he was a teenager.
For several years Porcellino had his own music and comics distribution company, Grinding Wheels Enterprises (evolving later into Spit and a Half), but he eventually abandoned it and went back to just publishing his own work. In the '90s Porcellino did some stories about his struggles to find a publisher for his work, and reprinted several of the rejection letters that criticized his drawing skills. He was briefly in negotiations to do an entire Trail Watch book, but that project fell through. Porcellino still mostly publishes himself, although now this is apparently mostly by choice.
In recent years other publishers have been publishing collections of his work, including the graphic novel Perfect Example, chronicling his teenage struggles with depression. La Mano, Zak Sally's publishing venture, released Porcellino's Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man, collecting various King-Cat stories about Porcellino's experiences as a pest control worker. The book won an Ignatz Award at the 2005 Small Press Expo in Bethesda, Maryland.
Porcellino lived in Denver, Colorado, from 1992–1998. He acquired his beloved cat Maisie Kukoc in March 1992 (the cat died in 2007). He married his longtime "sweetheart" Kera in September 1996 in Elgin, Illinois. They honeymooned in Tucson, Arizona. By this time, Porcellino had been suffering from hyperacusis for some years, and had begun exploring holistic healing options, including yoga, meditation, and the study of Zen Buddhism.
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