David Heatley

David Heatley (nacido el 17 de octubre de 1974) es un dibujante , ilustrador, diseñador gráfico y músico estadounidense.

Nacido en Teaneck, Nueva Jersey , ^{[ 1 ]} Heatley se graduó de la escuela secundaria de Teaneck en 1993. Se graduó del Instituto de Arte de San Francisco en 2000. ^{[ 2 ]}

Aunque estudió pintura y cine en el Oberlin College , Heatley empezó a dibujar cómics con regularidad a finales de los 90. Desde entonces, sus cómics e ilustraciones han aparecido en la portada de The New Yorker , The New York Times , McSweeney’s , Mome y Kramers Ergot , entre otros. Ha sido incluido tres veces en la serie The Best American Comics . Fantagraphics publicó dos números de su serie de cómics en solitario, Deadpan , que presentaba principalmente los «cómics oníricos» de Heatley, explorando sus sueños, a menudo con tintes sexuales y violentos, con un estilo directo y sin tapujos.

In September 2008, Pantheon Books released Heatley's first full-length book, My Brain is Hanging Upside Down. (Some of the material had originally appeared in such places as Deadpan, Mome, McSweeney's #13, The Best American Comics 2006, The Best American Comics 2007, and Kramers Ergot #5.) A graphic memoir, My Brain is Hanging Upside Down employs an unfiltered candor that borders on the confessional, presenting Heatley's life story through six interconnected narrative threads: "Sex History," (every sexual encounter of his life, beginning as early as kindergarten), "Black History" (a brutally honest reflection on Heatley's own experiences with racism, confronting uncomfortable truths), "Portrait of My Mom" and "Portrait of My Dad" (comic strip-style vignettes that both critique and celebrate his endearingly dysfunctional parents), and "Family History" (tracing his family's lineage from the lives of his great-great-grandparents through to the birth of his own children).^[3] Interwoven throughout these narratives are Heatley's "dream comics," which explore similar themes through surreal, unconscious logic. In his review for The New York Times, critic Douglas Wolk wrote of the book that it "seems to encompass every uncomfortable thought he's ever had about sexuality, race and his family."^[4]

In 2019, Pantheon released Heatley's second graphic memoir, Qualification: A Graphic Memoir in Twelve Steps, an exploration of his experiences with twelve-step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous, Overeaters Anonymous, Debtors Anonymous, Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous, and more.^[5]Reader's Digest cited Qualification in its 2024 round-up of the 50 Best Graphic Novels for Adults.^[6]

Also in 2019, Heatley self-published (in partnership with the Brooklyn retailer Desert Island) Amy, a 190-page graphic memoir that explores his intense, unrequited love for a teenage friend, and the profound, lasting effects it had on his life. (Some of Amy had been serialized by Heatley on Instagram.)^[5] The limited-edition, digest-size work was printed in blue on a risograph.^[7]

La banda de instituto de Heatley, Velvet Cactus Society, publicó dos álbumes con Shimmy Disc a principios de los 90. En 2008, grabó (bajo su propio nombre) la banda sonora de su novela gráfica My Brain is Hanging Upside Down , que incluye una versión de la canción homónima de The Ramones . La banda sonora fue publicada por WonderSound Records.

Heatley vive en Jackson Heights , Nueva York, con su esposa Rebecca Gopoian (una poeta agnóstica, judía-armenia) y sus dos hijos, Maya y Samuel Heatley. ^{[ 8 ] [ 9 ]}

Heatley enumera entre sus influencias a Daniel Clowes , Gary Panter , Fort Thunder y Paper Rad . ^{[ 10 ]}

• Mi cerebro está colgado al revés (Pantheon Books, septiembre de 2008) ISBN 0-375-42539-X
• (con la escritora Ellen Potter ) Otis Dooda (Feiwel & Friends, 2013)
• (con la escritora Ellen Potter) Otis Dooda: Verdaderamente peligroso (Feiwel & Friends, 2014)
• Qualification: A Graphic Memoir in Twelve Steps (Pantheon, 2019) ISBN 978-0375425400
• Amy (publicado conjuntamente con *Brooklyn's Desert Island* , 2019)

• Deadpan #1 (Fantagraphics)
• Deadpan #2 (Fantagraphics)

• Mi parto en casa por Christen Clifford

• Sitio web oficial
• Página de artista de David Heatley en Drawger
• Heatley sobre cómics y diseño gráfico
• Webcómic basado en un poema de Diane Wakoski.

• Entrevista de septiembre de 2007 en el programa de radio Inkstuds.
• Entrevista de octubre de 2008 realizada por Comixology.