Lloyd Dangle
{{short description|American cartoonist}}
{{BLP sources|date=May 2023}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2023}}
{{infobox comics creator
| image = Lloyd Dangle at USC Creativity & Collaboration 2010 (cropped).jpg
| caption = At USC Creativity & Collaboration in 2010
| birth_date= {{birth date and age|1961|05|13}}
| birth_place = Michigan, U.S.
| area =
| cartoonist = y
| notable works = Troubletown
| website = {{URL|http://www.lloyddangle.com}}
}}
Lloyd Dangle (born May 13, 1961) is an American writer and cartoonist, illustrator, and political satirist.
Early life and career
Lloyd Dangle was born on May 13, 1961.{{cite web|url=http://www.nndb.com/people/430/000168923|title=Lloyd Dangle|website=NNDB|access-date=May 31, 2023}} He graduated from Ann Arbor Huron High School in 1979,[http://annarboralumni.org/?sitePage=custom&pageURL=school_files/annarboralumni/pages/notable_alumni.html "Ann Arbor Public Schools Notable Alumni] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161013073950/http://annarboralumni.org/?sitePage=custom&pageURL=school_files%2Fannarboralumni%2Fpages%2Fnotable_alumni.html |date=2016-10-13 }}, Retrieved on 13 October 2015. and attended the University of Michigan School of Art, graduating with a BFA in 1983. He was editor and contributor to the U of M's Gargoyle Humor Magazine.
Dangle worked as a designer, paste-up artist, and cartoonist for the Michigan Voice, an alternative newspaper in Flint, Michigan, that was founded and edited by future filmmaker Michael Moore;{{cite news|title=End of the Line: Lloyd Dangle will end 'Troubletown' comic in April [Updated]|first=Michael|last=Cavna|date=March 28, 2011|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/end-of-the-line-lloyd-dangle-will-end-troubletown-comic-in-april/2011/03/28/AFpqGGrB_blog.html}} he served as a sound recordist on Moore's first movie, Roger and Me.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}
After leaving Michigan in 1983 he moved to New York City and worked for magazines and newspapers including Elle, Manhattan, Inc., Nuclear Times, and The Village Voice as a production artist.{{Cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1B4iAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Lloyd%20Dangle%22 |title=Staff |magazine=Nuclear Times |volume=2 |pages=2, 9 |date=September 1984 |access-date=2023-11-22 |via=Google Books}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/asheville-citizen-times-new-cookbook-off/135635241/ |title=New cookbook offers comic relief in kitchen |first=Carole |last=Currie |newspaper=Asheville Citizen-Times |page=17 |date=1996-08-28 |access-date=2023-11-22 |via=Newspapers.com}}
Advocacy projects
Dangle has contributed to AIDS education efforts, particularly for IV drug users, including art-directing the handbook The 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 in California.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/oakland-tribune-bleachman-tries-to-per/135634969/ |title='Bleachman' tries to persuade needle-users to clean up acts |first=Jesus |last=Mena |newspaper=Oakland Tribune |pages=A7, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/oakland-tribune-bleachman-tries-to-per/135635007/ A8] |date=1988-03-21 |access-date=2023-11-22 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{citation needed|date=November 2023|reason=The Trib article covers Bleachman but a source is needed naming Dangle as his creator.}}
Dangle has served as Northern California chapter president and as national president of the Graphic Artists Guild,{{cite web|url=https://graphicartistsguild.org/advocacy/advocacy-timeline/|title=Advocacy Timeline|website=Graphic Artists Guild|access-date=May 31, 2023|quote=2003 ... Guild President Lloyd Dangle, responded to work-for-hire contracts being forced on journalists at Ski and Skiing magazine by parent company AOL/Time Warner.}} having helped found the former. He also lobbied the United States Congress in favor of the unsuccessful Freelance Artists and Writers Self Protection Act, introduced by Michigan Senator John Conyers in 2002, which intended to extend collective bargaining rights to freelance artists and writers negotiating with large media companies.
''Troubletown''
Troubletown was a syndicated weekly comic strip by Dangle. Most strips involve political satire from a liberal perspective. Begun in 1988 at the San Francisco Bay Guardian, it went on to run in many alternative press weeklies, including The Stranger, The Portland Mercury, and the Austin Chronicle. It also appeared regularly in The Progressive magazine.
Dangle retired Troubletown at the end of April 2011.{{cite web|url=http://blog.troubletown.com/2011/03/its-true.html|first=Lloyd|last=Dangle|website=Troubletown|title=It's True|date= March 28, 2011}}
Several book collections of Troubletown have been published. It was also featured in the anthology Attitude: The New Subversive Cartoonists.{{cite book|title= Attitude: The New Subversive Cartoonists |publisher=NBM Publishing|date=June 2002|isbn=1-56163-317-8}}
Publications
=Comics=
- Dangle #1 (Cat-Head Comics, (1991){{cite web|url=https://www.comics.org/series/40969/|title=Dangle: Cat-Head Comics, 1991 Series|website=Grand Comics Database|access-date=May 31, 2023}}
- Dangle #1–4 (Drawn & Quarterly) (1993–1995) — first issue republishes Dangle #1 from Cat-Head Comics{{cite web|url=https://www.comics.org/series/7362/|title=Dangle: Drawn & Quarterly, 1993 Series|access-date=May 31, 2023|website=Grand Comics Database}}
- Contract with Troubletown and Other Cartoons (self-published, 1995)
- Troubletown #5: Focus-Group Tested (self-published, 1997)
- TroubleTown
[ #6] : Funky Hipster Trash (self-published, 1998) - Troubletown #7: Troubletown: Manifestos and Stuff (self-published, 2000)
=Books=
- (with writer Lynn Gordon) Real Recipes For Casual Cooks (Main Street Books, 1996) {{ISBN|978-0385482080}}
- Next Stop: Troubletown (Manic D Press, 1996) {{ISBN| 978-0916397449}}
- Troubletown: Axis of Trouble (Top Shelf Productions, 2003) {{ISBN|978-0972354400}}
- (with The Mission Collective and M. Ryan Hess, editor) The Ten Minute Activist: Easy Ways to Take Back the Planet (Nation Books, 2006) {{ISBN|978-1560259701}}
- Troubletown Told You So: Comics that Could've Saved Us from this Mess (Top Shelf Productions, 2007) {{ISBN|978-0972354417}}
References
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External links
- {{official website|http://www.lloyddangle.com}}
- [http://blog.troubletown.com/ Lloyd Dangle's blog]
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Category:American magazine cartoonists
Category:American comics artists
Category:American comics writers
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Category:Artists from Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Category:Underground cartoonists
Category:University of Michigan alumni
Category:American satirical comics writers