Justin Hall (cartoonist)
{{short description|American cartoonist and educator (born 1971)}}
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Justin Robinson Hall (born February 14, 1971) is an American cartoonist and educator. He has written and illustrated autobiographical and erotic comics, and edited No Straight Lines, a scholarly overview of LGBT comics of the previous 40 years. He is an Associate Professor of Comics and Writing-and-Literature at the California College of the Arts.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cca.edu/academics/faculty/jhall|title=Justin Hall {{!}} California College of the Arts|website=www.cca.edu|access-date=2017-03-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180615135542/https://www.cca.edu/academics/faculty/jhall|archive-date=2018-06-15|url-status=dead}}
Career
Hall began creating comics in 2001.{{Cite news|url=http://chicago.gopride.com/news/interview.cfm/articleid/399136|title=Justin Hall: In the past, if there was a comic with a queer character, it became a queer comic because the mainstream wouldn't necessarily touch it.|last=Bernardo|first=Danny|work=ChicagoPride.com|access-date=2017-03-03|language=en-US|archive-date=2017-03-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170303201116/http://chicago.gopride.com/news/interview.cfm/articleid/399136|url-status=dead}} His first published work was A Sacred Text, about seeing the Dead Sea Scrolls in Israel, published with funding from a Xeric Grant. He followed this with True Travel Tales, an anecdotal series about more of his international backpacking experiences. Next he and Dave Davenport produced Hard to Swallow, a 4-issue series of gay erotica that was later collected into a single volume by Northwest Press in 2016.{{Cite web|url=https://www.manhattandigest.com/2016/02/06/justin-hall-dave-davenports-hard-to-swallow-get-involved/|title=Justin Hall & Dave Davenport's "Hard To Swallow"- Get Involved|date=2016-02-06|website=Manhattan Digest|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-17}}
He served as the talent relations chair for the LGBT advocacy organization Prism Comics. He published Glamazonia about a caricatural trans superhero, in 2010;{{Cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/thingstodo/article/Justin-Hall-Comics-creator-of-Glamazonia-3162762.php|title=Justin Hall: Comics creator of Glamazonia|work=SFGate|access-date=2017-03-03}} it was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award.{{Cite news|url=http://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/08/31/justin-hall-queering-comic-books/|title=Justin Hall: Queering Comic Books|last=Johnson|first=William|date=2011-08-31|work=Lambda Literary|access-date=2017-03-03|language=en-US}} His work has been published in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, The Book of Boy Trouble, The Best Erotic Comics series, and Best American Comics 2006.
In 2006, he curated the art exhibition "No Straight Lines: Queer Culture in Comics" with Andrew Farago of the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco.{{Cite web|url=http://comicsalliance.com/rediscovering-comics-queer-history-an-interview-with-no-straight-lines-editor-justin-hall/ |title=Rediscovering Comics' Queer History: An Interview with 'No Straight Lines' Editor Justin Hall |website=Comics Alliance |language=en-US |access-date=2017-03-03 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016192941/http://comicsalliance.com/rediscovering-comics-queer-history-an-interview-with-no-straight-lines-editor-justin-hall/ |archivedate=2013-10-16 }} This led to the 2012 book No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics, a hardcover overview of LGBTQ comics history published by Fantagraphics,{{cite book |title= No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics |editor= Hall, Justin |year= 2012 |publisher= Fantagraphics Books |isbn= 9781606995068 |url-access= registration |url= https://archive.org/details/nostraightlinesf0000unse }} for which he won a Lambda Literary Award and an Eisner nomination.
He began teaching comics at the California College of the Arts in the early 2010s; in 2014, he added instruction for a Masters-level degree in the subject.{{Cite web|url=http://www.manhattandigest.com/2014/06/01/justin-hall-next-big-thing-comic-books/|title=Justin Hall- The Next Big Thing In Comic Books|last=Shea|first=Ryan|date=2014-06-01|website=Manhattan Digest|access-date=2017-03-03}} In 2016 he received a grant as a Fulbright scholar to guest lecture at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic.{{Cite web|url=https://czechfulbright.blogspot.com/2017/01/get-to-know-grantee-professor-justin.html|title=Fulbright Reality Czech: Get to Know a Grantee - Professor Justin Hall|last=Czechfulbright|date=2017-01-10|website=Fulbright Reality Czech|access-date=2017-03-03}}
In February 2013, Hall co-curated with Rick Worley the San Francisco art exhibit "Batman on Robin", featuring works exploring the theme of homoeroticism between Batman and Robin.{{Cite news|url=http://www.forcesofgeek.com/2013/02/batman-on-robin-gallery-show-explores.html|title=BATMAN ON ROBIN Gallery Show Explores The Dynamic Duo's Alternate Side|date=2013-02-09|work=Forces of Geek|access-date=2017-03-02|language=en-US}}{{Cite news|url=https://laughingsquid.com/batman-on-robin-a-homoerotic-group-art-show-in-san-francisco/|title=Batman on Robin, A Homoerotic Group Art Show in San Francisco|date=2013-02-04|work=Laughing Squid|access-date=2017-03-02|language=en-US}}
Beginning in 2015, he has co-organized – with Jennifer Camper – "Queers & Comics", a biennial conference of international LGBTQ cartoonists, academics, and other professionals, focusing on LGBTQ themes in comics and LGBTQ comics creators.{{Cite web|url=https://queersandcomics.com/about|title=About – Queers and Comics|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-17}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/art/article/For-a-weekend-the-art-of-queer-comics-takes-11076044.php|title=For a weekend, the art of queer comics takes center stage - SFChronicle.com|date=2017-04-16|website=www.sfchronicle.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-17}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.comicsbeat.com/14-fabulous-moments-from-the-queers-and-comics-conference/|title=Syndicated Comics|date=2019-06-01|website=The Beat|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-17}}
Personal life
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Category:American LGBTQ artists
Category:LGBTQ comics creators
Category:Lambda Literary Award winners