Martin Wagner (artist)
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Martin Wagner (born April 27, 1966) is an American artist, cartoonist, and filmmaker.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Career
Comics
While a student at the University of Texas at Austin, Wagner began Hepcats as a comic strip in the college newspaper The Daily Texan in 1987.<ref name="Palmer">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Starting in 1989, he self-published it as a black-and-white comic book series and it gained more exposure with the assistance of Dave Sim, who allowed Wagner to submit a page to his bi-weekly reprints of Cerebus.<ref name="Palmer" /> To help support the comics financially, Wagner also offered sketches to fans who sent him cash in the mail.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Although the series received critical praise,<ref name="Palmer" /> the combination of poor sales, Wagner's lack of business experience, and his divorce in 1991 contributed to financial difficulties.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Along with Jeff Smith (Bone), Colleen Doran (A Distant Soil), James Owen (Starchild), Larry Marder (Beanworld) and Sim, Wagner was one of the prominent self-publishers of the 1990s, but a hectic schedule eventually led him to cease publishing the series altogether following issue No. 12 in 1994.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1996 he made a deal with Antarctic Press to republish the existing material, to be followed by new issues, but the only new material published was a special "#0" color issue. Wagner also developed the Snowblind story-line as part of the Hepcats series which would be re-printed into a novel, but it never continued past part one.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Film
Following his departure from the comics industry, Wagner illustrated children's books and began a new career working in Austin-area film and television commercial productions. In 1999, Wagner produced some early conceptual drawings for director Robert Rodriguez (who was also a cartoonist at the University of Texas at the same time as Wagner) for his film Spy Kids,Template:Fact though he did not work on the film during production or any of its sequels.
In 2005, Wagner was slated to direct a 24p high-definition short film, Tremendous Risk for Mr. Ferdico, but when the producers failed to secure funding, he shifted his attentions to a documentary, Bloody Work, which was successfully funded on Kickstarter in the summer of 2013,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> but was never released, with updates to the campaign ceasing in 2016.
Wagner was a rotating co-host on the webcast and public access show The Atheist Experience from 2000 to 2016.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
References
External links
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