About Us

Devin Trudell has been drawing since he was a little ki- - - ah, who am I kidding? Since Devin Trudell is indeed the person writing this, wouldn't first-person be more in order? . . . . I have been drawing since I was a little kid. My influences in comics would include my older brother Jack Trudell, Dennis the Menace (Hank Ketcham), MAD Magazine (Sergio Aragones and Jack Davis in particular), Tintin (Herge), Asterix (Goscinny/Udurzo), and Pogo (Walt Kelly, in my view America's greatest cartoonist, but America embraced the OTHER Walt!). I think comics can be literature, and never really liked superheroes except for Wonder Wart-Hog (Gilbert Shelton). I grew up in Madison, WI and went to the University of Texas in Austin where I had a comic strip called 'Bleedproof Paper' for two and a half years. I've also lived in the Twin Cities and Seattle and currently reside in Milwaukee. I guess I get around. I met Angie in 1997 and we've been married since 2003.

Angie Trudell Vasquez is a Latina activist poet from Des Moines, IA by way of Seattle, WA where she lived for 8 years and was a member of Los Nortenos and a featured reader at the Bumbershoot Arts Festival.  She currently lives in Milwaukee, where she is working on her second chapbook and has been a featured reader and workshop instructor at Woodland Pattern Bookstore, where she is also a board member.

Below: Angie featured in Woodland Pattern's ad for Poetry Marathon (left) and Devin at Avol's bookstore in Madison, WI after Art Night Books reading.