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Saturday, May 31st, 2025
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12:36 pm - Dino FAQ
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(photo of Dean Haspiel 2019 by Whitney Matheson)
(Photo by Steve Friedman. Taken at Yaddo, Sept. 2019)
(photo of Dean Haspiel 2020 by Jen Ferguson)
(Dino selfie, 2020)
(Dino selfie, January 2021)
(Dino selfie, February 2021)
http://www.deanhaspiel.com/
Emmy & Ringo award winner, Dean Haspiel created Billy Dogma, The Red Hook, illustrated for HBO's "Bored To Death," is a Master Artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, helped pioneer personal webcomics via ACT-I-VATE, is a Yaddo fellow, a playwright and emerging filmmaker. Dino has written and drawn many comix for Marvel, DC, Image, Archie, IDW, Dark Horse, Heavy Metal, and Webtoon; including The Fox, The Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, X-men, Deadpool, Batman, Wonder Woman, Godzilla, Mars Attacks, Creepy, SpongeBob SquarePants, Popeye, and semi-autobio collaborations with Harvey Pekar, Jonathan Ames, Inverna Lockpez, Jonathan Lethem, Stoya, and Stan Lee.
NIGHTWORK Studio is a Brooklyn-based multimedia collaboration project between Dean Haspiel & Whitney Matheson: https://www.nightwork.studio/
Subscribe to Dean Haspiel's free, occasional newsletter: https://deanhaspiel.substack.com/
Listen to SCENE BY SCENE WITH JOSH & DEAN, the podcast that breaks down American Splendor the movie, Josh Neufeld & Dean Haspiel's relationship with the late/great Harvey Pekar, and growing up in NYC learning to make comix: http://scenebyscenepodcast.com/
Read THE RED HOOK saga for free at Webtoon:
1) THE RED HOOK: http://www.webtoons.com/en/super-hero/the-red-hook/list?title_no=643
2) WAR CRY: https://www.webtoons.com/en/super-hero/war-cry/list?title_no=1247
3) STARCROSS: https://www.webtoons.com/en/super-hero/star-cross/list?title_no=1599
4) BLACKOUT: https://www.webtoons.com/en/super-hero/the-red-hook-blackout/list?title_no=2282
5) PTSD: Post-Traumatic Superhero Disorder https://www.webtoons.com/en/super-hero/the-red-hook-blackout/ep-27-ptsd-part-1-season-2-premiere/viewer?title_no=2282&episode_no=27
THE RED HOOK promo videos:
Webtoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSA3jLZVWkk (with original music by Moby)
Image: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJteYH6WZoU
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deanhaspiel_art/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/deanhaspiel
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeanHaspielArt
Substack: https://deanhaspiel.substack.com/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/deanhaspiel
Artist's Statements:
No permissions. No apologies.
Exploit the narrative real-estate of the blank page while yielding to the collaborative virtues of words and pictures where image is text, too.
Honors:
-Emmy Award winner for title design work on HBO's "Bored To Death."
-Eisner Award nominee for "Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition" and "Outstanding Webcomic."
-Ringo Award winner for "Best Webcomic 2017" for THE RED HOOK
-Yaddo fellow
-Master Artist at The Atlantic Center for the Arts
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| Sunday, August 14th, 2022
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10:21 am - Baltimore Comic-con 2022 brings Brooklyn
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10:14 am - SUPERMAN: KAL-EL RETURNS SPECIAL #1
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DC Comics recently announced that I will be illustrating a Superman story starring Jimmy Olsen, written by Sina Grace in SUPERMAN: KAL-EL RETURNS SPECIAL #1
"Kal-El has returned from his long sojourn to Warworld, but what ramifications does this hold for the broader DC Universe?" Superman: Kal-El Returns Special #1 spotlights Kal-El's reunion with the Dark Knight, Jimmy Olsen, the Justice League, and... Lex Luthor?!”
Written by MARK WAID, SINA GRACE, ALEX SEGURA, and MARV WOLFMAN
Art by MAX RAYNOR, DEAN HASPIEL, JACK HERBERT, and CLAYTON HENRY
Cover by DAN MORA
Variant cover by TRAVIS MOORE 1:25
variant cover by MARIO “FOX” FOCCILLO
ON SALE 11/29/22
https://www.cbr.com/exclusive-superman-kal-el-returns-special-dark-crisis-dc/
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| Thursday, August 4th, 2022
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6:47 pm - DENNY BARRACUDA is an official selection of the Rhode Island International Film Festival
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| Monday, August 1st, 2022
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11:23 am - Calling All Cartoonists for The Atlantic Center of the Arts residency #188
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REMINDER: I will be mentoring a bunch of lucky creators in the art of comix at The Atlantic Center of the Arts residency #188, in New Smyrna Beach, FL next year from February 12 to March 4, 2023.
Here are links to my residency statement + requirements and to the application page.
https://atlanticcenterforthearts.org/mentoring-artist/dean-haspiel/
https://aca.submittable.com/submit/215470/dean-haspiel-residency-188
Here is a very nice thing artist George Folz said about me and the residency:
"Cartoonist and comic art friends-- if you have not already applied to study under Dean Haspiel at ACA next March, I can't recommend doing so highly enough. I was fortunate enough to be selected to study under Dean at a previous ACA residency in 2012, and that residency is the reason that I'm now able to make my living full-time as an artist. Dean is as tremendous a mentor as a young maker can hope to have. His endless passion, uncommon insight, and good humor inspired me, and put me on a path to carve out a lane for myself. I'm envious of the experience that you're about to have."
Please spread the word. Thanks!
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| Thursday, July 28th, 2022
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7:58 pm - RUDY + CAMILLE
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Nightwork Studio mate Whitney Matheson and I are presenting a reading of an impromptu, preapocalyptic thing we co-wrote in the wee hours called…
RUDY + CAMILLE is a psychedelic rom-com that chronicles two office mates who spend most of their time pontificating and pawing at each other -- instead of preventing the impending apocalypse. Starring Morgan Lennon, Sharief Johnson and Adam Files.
Tuesday, August 2nd at 9:30pm
The Tank
312 W 36th Street, Floor 1, NYC 10018
212-563-6269
boxoffice@thetanknyc.org
Buy tickets HERE: https://ci.green.prod.ovationtix.com/35658/production/1132665?performanceId=11129717
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6:30 pm - Sequential Synergy: The Art of Comics Artist Talk
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"Sequential Synergy -- The Art Of Comics" jurors, Dean Haspiel and Whitney Matheson join artists Onur Tukel, Gina Minichino, Jerry Ma, and moderator/gallery artist Karen Gibbons to discuss the artist's process, inspiration and sequential art as an artform via 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Click here to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A5Bvpb7ERU
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| Wednesday, July 27th, 2022
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8:00 pm - NYT: “Comics That Read Top to Bottom Are Bringing in New Readers”
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A month ago, I was interviewed by the New York Times about creating webcomics since 2006 — from my pioneering days at ACT-I-VATE to Zuda to Trip City (all R.I.P.) and making digital-only comics for Marvel & DC. Plus, my recent foray with The Red Hook at Webtoon.
The reporters failed to mention the fact that I won a Ringo Award for ‘Best Webcomic’ for The Red Hook, among other cool things, and elected to concentrate my relationship with Webtoon to a proverbial bowl of sour grapes.
FOR THE RECORD: I am very proud of the four-and-a-half seasons of The Red Hook I produced at Webtoon, the 3-part story I did for Dark Horse Presents, and the two volumes that were print published by Image Comics. Including all the real-life adventures and opportunities that series granted me. Alas, working for a publisher becomes a numbers game and we all wish more people read my webcomic but it wasn’t meant to be (even though I have plenty of new Red Hook stories to tell).
Here’s an excerpt from the article where I appear in the NYT:
“Comics That Read Top to Bottom Are Bringing in New Readers”
"And some creators have not found digital platforms as good a fit. The veteran cartoonist Dean Haspiel, 55, published his comic “The Red Hook,” about a Brooklyn superhero, on Webtoon in 2016. The series continued for more than four seasons but “didn’t get the kind of response that we wanted,” he said.
“Ultimately I started to understand that the Webtoon reading audience is a very different audience than the kind of comics I would produce,” he said."
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/23/arts/digital-comics-new-readers.html
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| Saturday, July 9th, 2022
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10:56 am - SEQUENTIAL SYNERGY: The Art of Comics
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SEQUENTIAL SYNERGY: THE ART OF COMICS
440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
July 7 - July 29, 2022
Opening reception: July 9th, 3-6pm
Co-juried by Dean Haspiel and Whitney Matheson, this show celebrates the diverse ways cartoonists utilize the real estate of the blank page.
Exhibiting artists: Maurice Buckley, Peter Carella, Caitlin Cass, Junjun Chen, Brianna Collins, Joseph Desposito, Tom Galambos, Geoff Grogan, Alisa Harvey, Marie Hueston, Mindy Indy, Craig Johnson II, Simon Kiener, Jerry Ma, Brian McNamara, Gina Minichino, Adriano Moraes, Sarah K Myers, Josh Neufeld, Susanna Plotnick, Jerry Ramirez, Joan Reilly, Lynne Marie Rosenberg, Bill Roundy, Kevin Sacco, Arlen Schumer, Karl Stevens, Onur Tukel, Weston Wei, Marlene Weisman
https://440gallery.com/
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| Wednesday, July 6th, 2022
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10:52 am - Dino Summer 2022 music mix
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| Tuesday, July 5th, 2022
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6:11 pm - THE TIP
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After writing, directing and editing my short film, “There Is No Try,” at The Manhattan Film Institute, MFI asked me and my Nightwork Studio partner, Whitney Matheson, to double-down and co-write, co-direct and edit another short film, starring Madeleine Morrell, Max Morrell, and Zachary Deakyne called “The Tip.”
You can watch THE TIP here: https://vimeo.com/719628938
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| Monday, June 27th, 2022
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7:40 pm - THERE IS NO TRY
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6:59 pm - Panel to Panel: Approaches to Graphic Narrative /
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"Panel to Panel: Approaches to Graphic Narrative", led by Lesley University MFA faculty Peter Rostovsky.
Streamed live on Jun 19, 2022 Speakers: Emil Ferris, Dean Haspiel, Mark Thomas Gibson, and Bishakh Som
If visual culture is becoming increasingly flattened, demolishing long-established boundaries between high and low, few art forms exert as much influence today as comics and graphic novels. Incorporating figuration, narrative, complex spatial and cinematic strategies, and forms also pioneered by the avant-gardes, sequential art has risen to a level of unprecedented complexity. But what can it teach the “fine arts”? This panel discussion, composed of distinguished practitioners with diverse perspectives on comix, seeks to establish a dialogue between these connected but often disparate spheres, cross-pollinating their formal and conceptual concerns. By learning more about these authors as well as their unique approaches to the medium, this conversation will highlight the creative possibilities offered by graphic narrative while connecting these to the larger ecosystem of visual and textual pursuits.
You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHOJBzAT2-k
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| Tuesday, May 24th, 2022
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1:04 pm - IzzyVerse podcast: Indie Comics and Webtoons Comics Creator Dean Haspiel
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On the IzzyVerse podcast we enjoyed a rip-roaring parlay about Harvey "Pecker," American Flagg!, The Thing, The Fox, The Red Hook, Keyhole, webcomics, my formative years and NYC parking woes. Including a Whitney Matheson cameo directly from Nightwork Studio.
Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEURB6pfVX4
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12:58 pm - CradleCon 2022: Why Jack Kirby is Still the King
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| Sunday, May 22nd, 2022
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8:43 pm - Part 2 of BILLY DOGMA in IMAGE! 30
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The second issue of the 12-issue IMAGE! 30th Anniversary anthology drops soon, featuring the second installment of my 12-page Billy Dogma comic, “I will Break You But I Won’t Kill You Because I Need You.”
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8:42 pm - One-Shot: A Conversation with Dean Haspiel
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8:39 pm - SUPERMAN’S PAL JIMMY OLSEN’S BOSS PERRY WHITE
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| Wednesday, May 18th, 2022
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4:01 pm - THE FOX: Family Values one-shot
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THE FOX: Family Values one-shot is out today in comic book shops everywhere. You can also get it directly from publisher Archie Comics. It was fun to pick up where I left off and revisit my favorite freak magnets. I hope I get invited back to the freak show.
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| Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
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4:18 pm - Pop Culture Squad reviews THE FOX: FAMILY VALUES
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