With Lansdale and Truman’s Dead Folks coming to a store near you soon, it’s high time we got some more information on its creators — and a preview of the finished, lettered pages — up here at avatarpress.com. We’ll be working on getting that posted over the next few days, and for now here’s a start with a profile of a man who has been an innovative and important creator thoughout his career, Tim Truman:
A 1981 Kubert School graduate, artist/writer Timothy Truman has become one of the most distinctive voices in comics as well as one of its most original artistic storytellers and stylists. Throughout his 20+ year professional career, Truman has been one of the few artists to make formative contributions to both mainstream and independent comic book scenes.
Among Truman’s earliest professional works is a series of backup stories in DC’s Sgt. Rock — a character co-created and made famous by Kubert School founder Joe Kubert — beginning in 1981 with issue #354 and lasting for a few scattered issues. But Truman’s best-known early work was about to appear on the then-blosoming early-1980’s independent comics scene… (read more on Truman’s bio page)