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| Lloyd Dangle | |
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| Born | (1961-05-13)May 13, 1961 (age 63) Michigan, U.S. |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist |
Notable works | Troubletown |
| Spouse(s) | Hae Yuon Kim[1] |
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Lloyd Dangle (born May 13, 1961) is an American writer andcartoonist, illustrator, and political satirist.
Lloyd Dangle was born on May 13, 1961.[1] He graduated fromAnn Arbor Huron High School in 1979,[2] and attended theUniversity of Michigan School of Art, graduating with a BFA in 1983.[1] He was editor and contributor to the U of M'sGargoyle Humor Magazine.
Dangle worked as a designer, paste-up artist, and cartoonist for theMichigan Voice, an alternative newspaper inFlint,Michigan, that was founded and edited by future filmmakerMichael Moore;[3] he served as a sound recordist on Moore's first movie,Roger and Me.[citation needed]
After leaving Michigan in 1983 he moved toNew York City and worked for magazines and newspapers includingElle,Manhattan,Inc.,Nuclear Times, andThe Village Voice as a production artist.[4][5]
Dangle has contributed toAIDS education efforts, particularly forIV drug users, including art-directing the handbookThe Works, used in prisons and drug rehabilitation clinics. He created a billboard, TV, and print campaign around a superhero, Bleachman, whose duty was to teach IV drug users to clean their needles at a time when needle exchange programs were illegal inCalifornia.[6][citation needed]
Dangle has served as Northern California chapter president and as national president of theGraphic Artists Guild,[7][1] having helped found the former. He also lobbied theUnited States Congress in favor of the unsuccessful Freelance Artists and Writers Self Protection Act, introduced by Michigan SenatorJohn Conyers in 2002, which intended to extendcollective bargaining rights to freelance artists and writers negotiating with large media companies.
Troubletown was asyndicated weeklycomic strip by Dangle. Most strips involve political satire from a liberal perspective. Begun in 1988 at theSan Francisco Bay Guardian,[3] it went on to run in manyalternative press weeklies, includingThe Stranger,The Portland Mercury, and theAustin Chronicle. It also appeared regularly inThe Progressive magazine.
Dangle retiredTroubletown at the end of April 2011.[3][8]
Several book collections ofTroubletown have been published. It was also featured in the anthologyAttitude: The New Subversive Cartoonists.[9]
2003 ... Guild President Lloyd Dangle, responded to work-for-hire contracts being forced on journalists atSki andSkiing magazine by parent companyAOL/Time Warner.
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