Landis Blair

Landis Blair
Landis Blair at the 2016 Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo
Born Peter Landis Blair
(1983-09-04)September 4, 1983
Waukegan, Illinois, U.S.
Nationality American
Education The School of The Art Institute of Chicago
Known for Illustrator, Writer
Notable work The Hunting Accident
Movement Literary nonsense, Surrealism
Awards Best in Adult Books, 2018 Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards
Website Official website

Landis Blair (born Peter Landis Blair on September 4, 1983) is an American illustrator and comic artist. He is best known as the artist of The Hunting Accident[1][2] with David Carlson[3][4] and for his work with [5] Caitlin Doughty[6] whose second book, From Here to Eternity,[7] he illustrated. He also writes and publishes some of his own books under the publishing label Sastergoodment[8] and is a member of The Order of the Good Death.[9]

Blair's heavily crosshatched drawings and dark storytelling are influenced by Edward Gorey[10][11] and The New York Times referred to his work on The Hunting Accident as being drawn with "a graphomaniacal fervor".[12]

His illustrations have appeared in print and online magazines such as The New York Times,[13] Chicago,[14] Ghettoblaster,[15] New Escapologist,[16] and Medium[17] and have also been used for commercial art such as t-shirt and tote bag designs.

In 2018, he and David Carlson won Best in Adult Books for The Hunting Accident at the inaugural Excellence in Graphic Literature awards,[18] and in 2012 Blair was the Grand Prize winner of the New Yorker's Eustace Tilley contest.[19]

Personal life

Landis rides a unicycle.[20][21]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.ew.com/article/2016/12/08/first-second-graphic-novels-fall-2017-cover-reveals
  2. ↑ http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/book-deals/article/71842-book-deals-week-of-october-24-2016.html
  3. ↑ https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/10/first-second-exclusive-david-carlson-and-landis-bl.html
  4. ↑ http://goodokbad.com/index.php/reviews/hunting_accident_review
  5. ↑ http://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/members/artists
  6. ↑ http://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/my-morbid-art-crush-on-landis-blair
  7. ↑ http://www.cultofweird.com/books/caitlin-doughty-eternity-book/
  8. ↑ http://www.landisblair.com/progressive-problem/
  9. ↑ http://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/members
  10. ↑ http://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/faces-death-landis-blair
  11. ↑ https://www.gq.com/story/leopold-loeb-hunting-accident-true-crime
  12. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/books/review/latest-graphic-novels.html
  13. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/books/review/from-here-to-eternity-caitlin-doughty.html
  14. ↑ "The Hunting Accident: The Curious Tale Behind a Decades-Long Family Lie". Chicago magazine. Retrieved 2017-09-15.
  15. ↑ http://ghettoblastermagazine.com/tag/landis-blair/
  16. ↑ http://newescapologist.co.uk/2011/08/03/leonard-dubkin/
  17. ↑ https://medium.com/galleys/the-dead-beneath-48599093306c#.bug9woqh5
  18. ↑ https://www.news-journal.com/ap/national/spill-zone-wins-book-of-the-year-for-inaugural-excellence/article_d1835b91-8fde-5a84-a3c7-30e7e62103bb.html
  19. ↑ http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/and-the-new-eustace-tilley-tote-bag-is
  20. ↑ http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/30/our-bodies-ourselves
  21. ↑ https://twitter.com/heyunicycle?lang=en
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