Background
Paul Karasik was born in 1956 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States; the son of Monroe and Joan Karasik.
Paul Karasik
200 Willoughby Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205, United States
Paul Karasik graduated from the Pratt Institute in 1981.
209 E 23rd St, New York, NY 10010, United States
Paul Karasik attended the School of Visual Arts with cartoonists Will Eisner, Harvey Kurtzman, and Art Spiegelman.
2018
94 S Main St, White River Junction, VT 05001, United States
Paul Karasik at The Center for Cartoon Studies.
2019
Paul Karasik with Drew Friedman, Drew Friedman и Mark Newgarden.
4C Cournoyer Rd, West Tisbury, MA 02575, United States
Paul Karasik at the scholarship reception at the Permanent Endowment for Martha’s Vineyard.
4C Cournoyer Rd, West Tisbury, MA 02575, United States
Paul Karasik at the scholarship reception at the Permanent Endowment for Martha’s Vineyard.
2018
111 W Harbor Dr, San Diego, CA 92101, United States
Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden, authors of "'How to Read Nancy" (Fantagraphics) awarded Eisner for Best Comics-Related Book at the San Diego Convention Center.
2015
Paul Karasik
2018
Paul Karasik with Kurtzman/Davis page from MAD #1.
2018
94 S Main St, White River Junction, VT 05001, United States
Paul Karasik at The Center for Cartoon Studies.
2018
Paul Karasik
2018
111 W Harbor Dr, San Diego, CA 92101, United States
Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden, authors of "'How to Read Nancy" (Fantagraphics) awarded Eisner for Best Comics-Related Book at the San Diego Convention Center.
2019
Paul Karasik with Drew Friedman, Drew Friedman и Mark Newgarden.
200 Willoughby Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205, United States
Paul Karasik graduated from the Pratt Institute in 1981.
209 E 23rd St, New York, NY 10010, United States
Paul Karasik attended the School of Visual Arts with cartoonists Will Eisner, Harvey Kurtzman, and Art Spiegelman.
4C Cournoyer Rd, West Tisbury, MA 02575, United States
Paul Karasik at the scholarship reception at the Permanent Endowment for Martha’s Vineyard.
4C Cournoyer Rd, West Tisbury, MA 02575, United States
Paul Karasik at the scholarship reception at the Permanent Endowment for Martha’s Vineyard.
Paul Karasik's wife, Marsha Winsryg.
Paul Karasik's mother, Joan Karasik.
(On Martha's Vineyard, Mostly)
On Martha's Vineyard, Mostly
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805015930/?tag=2022091-20
1993
(The story concerns Daniel Quinn, a poet who lives in New ...)
The story concerns Daniel Quinn, a poet who lives in New York City. After his wife and son die, he leads a quiet, rather desolate life, making a living as a mystery writer. He begins to receive repeated telephone calls from someone who has confused him with a detective who has the same name as the book's author: Paul Auster. Eventually, Quinn's curiosity compels him to take on the Auster persona and the case, which involves protecting Peter Stillman, a young man who was tortured by his father. Stillman's father sought to reveal the true language of God by inflicting sensory deprivation on his son for many years. Quinn is soon caught up in the obsessions of the Stillmans and drifts increasingly far from his own identity.
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1994
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2000
("We looked like a cup of human fruit cocktail dumped onto...)
"We looked like a cup of human fruit cocktail dumped onto the top of the house, each piece different but all out of the same can". So begins a book unlike any other, half comics and half text, about a family that lives with autism and the strange life that is ordinary to them. The oldest son, David, recites Superman episodes as he walks around the living room. A late-night family poker game spirals into a fog-driven duel. A thug from an old black-and-white rerun crawls out of the television. A housekeeper transforms into an avenging angel. A broken plate signals a terrible change in the family that none of them can prevent until it's too late.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743423372/?tag=2022091-20
2003
(Organized chronologically, Masters of American Comics exp...)
Organized chronologically, Masters of American Comics explores the rise of newspaper comic strips and comic books and considers their artistic development throughout the century. Presenting a wide selection of original drawings as well as progressive proofs, vintage printed Sunday pages, and comic books themselves, the authors also look at how the art of comics was transformed by artistic innovation as well as by changes in popular taste, economics, and printing conventions. Included in the book are insightful and entertaining essays on individual artists written by major figures in the fields of comics, narrative illustration, literature, popular culture, and art history.
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2005
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2007
(The thirty-one tales in this book, when combined with the...)
The thirty-one tales in this book, when combined with the first volume, will comprise The Complete Fletcher Hanks!
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2009
(The Complete Works of Fletcher Hanks)
The Complete Works of Fletcher Hanks
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2016
(Everything that you need to know about reading, making an...)
Everything that you need to know about reading, making and understanding comics can be found in a single Nancy strip by Ernie Bushmiller from August 8, 1959. Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden’s groundbreaking work How to Read Nancy ingeniously isolates the separate building blocks of the language of comics through the deconstruction of a single strip. How to Read Nancy is a completely new approach to deep-reading art. Textbook, art book, monogram, dissection, How to Read Nancy is a game-changer in understanding how the “simplest” drawings grab us and never leave. Perfect for students, academics, scholars, and casual fans.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1606993615/?tag=2022091-20
2017
Paul Karasik was born in 1956 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States; the son of Monroe and Joan Karasik.
Paul Karasik graduated from the Pratt Institute in 1981. He also attended the School of Visual Arts where he was a student of cartoonists Will Eisner, Harvey Kurtzman, and Art Spiegelman.
Paul Karasik began his career as an Instructor in cartooning at the School of Visual Arts, New York. Soon after that, he was an associate editor of Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly's avant-garde international comics and graphics review, RAW from 1981 to 1985, a position that allowed him to meet and collaborate with the brightest minds in alternative comics.
In addition, Karasik has taught art and design at institutions including the Rhode Island School of Design, Packer Collegiate Institute and at the Scuola de Comics in Florence, Italy. He has lectured and written extensively about the art and history of comics, visual storytelling, visual humor, and visual literacy.
In 1994, Karasik collaborated with David Mazzucchelli to create a graphic adaptation of Auster's existentialist novel "City of Glass". Karasik's collaboration with his sister, Judy Karasik, resulted in another innovative book "The Ride Together" that was published in 2003.
Karasik also co-edited "Masters of American Comics" in 2005, a catalogue book to an exhibition in the Hammer Museum and Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles on November 20, 2005 - March 12, 2006.
Paul was an illustrator for Lawrence Treat’s books "Crime and Puzzlement 3: 24 Solve-Them-Yourself Picture Mysteries" that came out in 1988, "Crime and Puzzlement 5, on Martha's Vineyard, Mostly: 24 Solve-Them-Yourself Picture Mysteries" in 1993, "Get a Clue 1: 25 Picture Mysteries" in 1997, "Get a Clue 2: 25 More Picture Mysteries" in 1997.
Karasik wrote "How to Read Nancy: The Elements of Comics in Three Easy Panels" with Mark Newgarden in 2017. In addition, he published his own magazine, Bad News.
Paul Karasik is a founder of the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School where he served as President of the Board and is presently Development Director. Currently, he works and lives in West Tisbury, Massachusets.
Paul Karasik is an internationally recognized cartoonist and teacher, whose cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker and Nickelodeon magazines. Karasik is a two-time Eisner Award winner for Fletcher Hanks and for his latest work How To Read Nancy.
"City of Glass", the work to which he has contributed, is translated into French, Italian, German, Japanese, and Spanish. It was named as one of the best 100 comics of the century by Comics Journal.
(Organized chronologically, Masters of American Comics exp...)
2005(Everything that you need to know about reading, making an...)
2017("We looked like a cup of human fruit cocktail dumped onto...)
2003(The thirty-one tales in this book, when combined with the...)
2009(The story concerns Daniel Quinn, a poet who lives in New ...)
1994(The Complete Works of Fletcher Hanks)
2016(On Martha's Vineyard, Mostly)
1993
Quotations:
"It's a natural law: You receive as much as you give".
"Motivation is not a matter of will-power, it is a matter of want-power".
Karasik is married to Marsha Winsryg.
Joan Pascal Karasik was born in New York City in 1918, was educated at Swarthmore and Columbia University, and moved to Washington, D.C. during the Second World War, where her work on several congressional committees included investigation of migratory labor in the Everglades and war mobilization issues. After she started a family and it became clear that the oldest of her four children had a serious cognitive disability, Ms. Karasik became involved in advocacy, education, and volunteer work in childhood education and disability. She was joined in this work by her husband, Monroe Karasik. She has served on numerous state and local studies and commissions and is the recipient of many awards including recognition as one of Maryland's Outstanding Women. She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Marsha Winsryg has been an artist and early childhood educator.
Marsha Winsryg graduated from Bennington College in 1972, where she studied sculpture with Isaac Whitkin and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art. She has lived on Martha’s Vineyard for over 25 years, and in that time she has developed her own approach towards depicting the Vineyard landscape in pastel, gouache and egg tempera.
Traveling in Africa and living in Florence, Italy has opened new ways of working and provided new subjects. She has shown at various Vineyard galleries including the Field Gallery and Etherington Fine Arts and currently has worked at the Sculpin Gallery. In addition to her art, Ms. Winsryg has raised three daughters, taught extensively, and is the Director of a non-profit that raises money for an orphanage and center for disabled children in Zambia. She is part of the puppet troupe Spindrift Marionettes and directs the West Tisbury Bell Choir.
Judy Karasik was born and raised in the Washington, D.C. area. From the late 1970s through the mid-1980s she was an editor at Holt, Rinehart, and Winston where writers she worked with included Louise Erdrich she acquired and edited Love Medicine as well as Ms. Erdrich's first book of poetry Julius Lester and Edward Whittemore. After she left publishing, Ms. Karasik raised money for Amherst College and freelanced as an editor, writer, and fundraising consultant. Judy studied at Oberlin College in 1971-75 where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and she also studied at National Cathedral School from 1967 to 1971.
She has been a judge for the National Book Award in Poetry and the National Endowment for the Arts Prose Panel. She has written commissioned reports for several foundations and non-profits, including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times Book Review and The New York Times' op-ed page, The Boston Globe Magazine, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, and the Agni Review, among others.
She has written extensively on the subject of youth service and was Senior Training Officer at the federal Corporation for National Service. Her responsibilities included supervision of the training and technical assistance for the integration of people with disabilities in AmeriCorps. In 1996 she started a family and moved to Tuscany, where she freelanced as a writer and editor. Presently, she and her family live in Maryland.
