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Kevin C. Pyle is the author/illustrator of numerous graphic novels and non-fiction comics. He also makes art, videos and performances that grow out of the practice of drawing and visual story-telling.
He is a long-time co-editor and contributor to World War 3 illustrated. Much of the work done for WW3 illustrated was collected in his 2001 docu-comic, Lab U.S.A: illuminated documents. Lab U.S.A. won the Silver Medal for Sequential Art from the Society of Illustrators. Kevin has done performance and installations based on the text that have been exhibited in the Brooklyn Museum of Art,, Mass MOCA, and numerous gallery settings. He collaborated with the scholar McKenzie Wark on a series of graphic essays on the Situationist International which were published by Verso Books and have been presented at the Conflux pyschogeography convention and MoMA PS1.
Starting in 2007 with Prison Town: Paying the Price, Kevin has cowritten and illustrated several activist comics used by groups advocating for different communities. These include Wage Theft: Crime and Justice, Worker Justice Illustrated and most recently Migrant: Stories of Hope and Resilience. He has done several graphic works about the issues and landscape of the southern border in Arizona.
He has done illustrations for The New York Times Op-Ed page, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The Village Voice, The National Law Journal, The Progressive, Adbusters and numerous other publications. Kevin has done several books for younger audiences. His first graphic novel Blindspot, was published in 2007 by Henry Holt for Young Readers. It was included in the Best American Comics 2008, edited by Lynda Barry. Katman, also with Henry Holt, was published in 2009 and named a YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) Great Graphic Novel for 2010. His third graphic novel Take What You Can Carry was published in March 2012. Bad For You, a non-fiction docu-comic history of kid-centric moral panics in America, was co-written with Scott Cunningham and published in 2014.
In 2015 Kevin started one of his current graphic projects, Boatfire, a series of graphic essays that draw upon cultural artifacts of mortality and personal history to investigate how death and art intersect. This work was the impetus for a Princeton Atelier at the Lewis Center for the Arts co-taught with Jennine Willet, co-artistic director of Third Rail Projects entitled Waking the Dead. The class culminated in a collaborative immersive theater piece entitled The Last Boat. It comprised of a series of art installations containing performed scenes and projected comics that explored the metaphor of the boat as conveyor of the soul. Recently these concerns with the relationship of art and mourning have found expression in post-human landscapes. Kevin is currently producing graphic essays, prose, and large drawings that continue to explore this intersection of art, mortality, landscape and disappearance. His graphic essays can be seen frequently in the L.A. Times.
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