Cartoonist Glenn Head pens a powerful personal essay “Comics and the Trauma of Boarding School” ahead of his graphic memoir CHARTWELL MANOR.
Glenn Head
About Glenn Head
Glenn Head was born in 1958 in Morristown, New Jersey, and began drawing comics when he was fourteen. In the early 1990s Head co-created (with cartoonist Kaz) and edited Snake Eyes, the Harvey-Award nominated cutting edge comix anthology series and he was a frequent contributor to the Fantagraphics' comix anthology quarterly Zero Zero. From 2005 to 2010 Glenn edited and contributed to the Harvey and Eisner-nominated anthology HOTWIRE Comics and recently created his graphic epic, Chicago (2015). He lives in New York City.
Cartoonist Glenn Head’s Memoir CHARTWELL MANOR is Both a Harrowing Portrayal of Adolescent Abuse and a Testimony to the Transcendent Power of Art