ABOUT CHRIS G

## OVERVIEW

Chris Giarrusso is the Harvey award-nominated artist and writer best known for creating, writing, and drawing G-Man, a series of books loved by all ages. G-Man features a young superhero who gains fantastic powers when he wears a magic cape. The G-Man Super Journal: Awesome Origins, G-Man Learning to Fly, G-Man Cape Crisis, and G-Man Coming Home are available at bookstores and comic shops worldwide, and at online retailers like amazon.com. Chris’s work has been published by Andrews McMeel, Harper Collins, Scholastic, Marvel, Image, IDW, Lion Forge, Valiant, Ahoy Comics, and several independent publishers.

## RECENT WORK

Chris illustrated Hashtag: Danger in 2019, written by Tom Peyer, covers by Richard Williams, published by Ahoy Comics. Hashtag: Danger follows three socially awkward science adventurers through their space travels! Ahoy published the collected volume of the first five issues, Hashtag: Danger Volume One: Panic on Dinosaur Mountain!, in December 2019.

In 2018, Chris illustrated the comic series Encounter, written by Art Baltazar and Franco. Published by Lion Forge, Encounter follows the adventures of an alien who finds himself on planet earth and chooses to be a hero!

2015 saw the release of The G-Man Super Journal: Awesome Origins. In tandem with the book’s publication, Chris began work on G-Man Webcomics, a series of comics written and drawn by G-Man himself. Brand new G-Man Webcomics are available right here every Tuesday.

## PRIOR WORK

In 2012, Chris illustrated 12 Image variant covers, including *The Walking Dead*, *Chew*, and *Invincible*, in celebration of Image’s 25th anniversary. Chris illustrated the cover and wrote and illustrated the story, *G-Man: Reign of the Robo Teachers*, in the 2011 anthology book *Reading with Pictures*. 2010 featured Chris illustrating the covers and comic inserts for all four volumes of the Scholastic book series *The Amazing Adventures of Nate Banks*, and contributing a *Guardians of the Globe* cover and 4-page story, *Image Untied*, to the Image Comics *Image United* series. He was the illustrator for the first two years of the successful Emerald City Comicon webcomic, *Tales from the Con*, written by Brad Guigar.

In 1999, Chris Giarrusso created the world-famous Mini Marvels for Marvel Comics, writing and drawing dozens of comic strips and short stories which have been published in countless Marvel comics and collected editions. Chris even contributed two brand new characters to the Marvel Universe, fantastic fan-favorites “Elephant Steve” and “Archeology Jackson.”

Chris is still hard at work writing and drawing. Check out more of his books, art, and animation at his official website, chrisgiarrusso.com.

## AWARDS

### DIAMOND AWARD

2016, Best Window Display, Challengers Comics

## FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Q: How can I buy The G-Man Super Journal: Awesome Origins book?

A: You can purchase The G-Man Super Journal everywhere books and eBooks are sold, including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Books-a-Million (BAM!), and Indie Bound.

Q: How can I buy your G-Man graphic novels?

Q: Will there be more G-Man books?

Q: Are you the writer or the artist on G-Man?

Q: Why does Amazon sometimes show different covers for your books?

Q: How did you first start working in books / comics?

Q: How did you learn to draw? Did you go to an art school?

Q: Do you draw commissions / can I buy a sketch from you?

Q: What was the first comic book you read?

Q: Do you have any advice for young comic creators?

Q: Can I send you a book in a self-addressed, stamped envelope for you to sign?

## INTERVIEWS

2019, Ahoy Comics • Q&A: Hashtag Danger’s Chris Giarrusso

2019, The Hollywood Reporter • How ‘Hashtag: Danger’ Became an Adventure Comic for the Twitter Age

2015, School Library Journal • Chris Giarrusso on G-Man

2014, Comic Book Resources • Preview: Tales from the Con: Year #1

2013, New York Post • All-Ages Day! G-Man’s Chris Giarrusso

2012, LA Times • Jack Kirby Meets Charles Schulz: Chris Giarrusso’s G-Man in Flight

2010, Newsarama • Ain’t Nothin’ But a G Thang for Chris Giarrusso

2010, Newsarama • Giarrusso, Obama, & the Real Guardians of the Globe

2010, Comic Book Resources • Commentary Track: Image United #0

2009, Newsarama • NYCC ’09, Chris Giarrusso on G-Man’s Future

2009, Newsarama • Exclusive 12-page Image Preview: G-Man Volume 1: Learning to Fly TPB

2009, Comic Book Resources • Chris Giarrusso Talks G-Man!

2009, Comic Book Resources • Chris Giarrusso’s G-Man Brings His Cape Crisis to Image

2009, Comic Book Resources • Chris Giarrusso Flies with G-Man: Cape Crisis

2009, Comic Book Resources • Giarrusso Talks Mini Marvels: Secret Invasion

## PODCAST INTERVIEWS

One Shot! An interview with Chris Giarrusso, 2015

Stuff Said Show, 2011 (1 of 2)

Stuff Said Show, 2011 (2 of 2)

## PREVIOUS PANELS

ComiCon-Way, AR

Comics, Libraries, and Education: Literacy Without Limits

Emerald City Comicon

New York Comic Con

North Carolina Comicon

Mid-Ohio Comic Con

San Diego Comic Con International

Wizard World Philadelphia Comic Con

## PREVIOUS PRESENTATIONS

Archer Elementary • Greensboro, NC

Claxton Elementary • Greensboro, NC

Franklin Elementary • Rahway, NJ

Greensboro Day School • Greensboro, NC

Guilford Middle School • Greensboro, NC

Hyde Park Free Library • Hyde Park, NY

Metuchen Public Library • Metuchen, NJ

New Garden Friends School • Greensboro, NC

North Beach Elementary • Seattle, WA

Pierce Elementary • Oak Ridge, NC

PS169 Bay Terrace • Queens, NY

PS84 Magnet School for the Visual Arts, Brooklyn, NY

Roosevelt Elementary • South Plainfield, NJ