About

JEREMY EATON was born in Guildford, England in 1963. He moved from the village of Blanefield, Scotland in 1971, coming to settle in upstate New York. In 1994 he took a train across America to Seattle, Washington, where he currently lives and works as an illustrator and cartoonist.

He has a wide-ranging resume, having worked for a diverse list of clients, which includes Walt Disney Productions,The VillageVoice, Sub Pop
Records
, Philadelphia Daily News, The San Diego Reader, Macys/Bon Marche, Fantagraphics Books, CMJ NewMusic Monthly, The City of Seattle, SF Weekly, Miami New Times, The Olympic Regional Development Authority, Houston Press, The Jimi Hendrix Family,
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, The Stranger and numerous other publications and institutions.

His illustrations appear, with regularity, in more than a dozen alternative newsweeklies in the United States. His work has also appeared in foreign papers like The Borba, of Yugoslavia. Since1996, he has illustrated the popular column, I Love Television, which runs every week in The Stranger and The Portland Mercury. From 1998 until 2004, he illustrated the weekly dining column, Dish, for The Miami New Times and other Florida-based papers. He also currently writes and draws the weekly editorial cartoon, A Drawn Perspective, for a half dozen weekly papers in the Seattle area.

His comic art and stories have been collected in more than a dozen editions, including The Island of Dr. Moral, Sleepy and
A World of Trouble
, by such noted graphic novel publishers as Fantagraphics Books, Chronicle Books and Kitchen Sink Press. He has produced and self-syndicated more than half a dozen weekly cartoon features, including A Sleepyhead Tale and Jackass, running in a variety of alternative papers, including The Seattle Weekly and The Los Angeles Reader.
His original art has appeared in galleries in Seattle, Spain and Northampton, Massachusetts, in a variety of group showings and two
one-man shows, including the notorious If I Died Right Now, at Seattle’s Milky World Gallery, a show that was cover-featured
by both of the city’s alternative papers on its opening week.

He has also spoken at the Anything and Everything Symposium at the University of Washington, created the Northwest Annual brochure for the Seattle Center on Contemporary Art, toured Seattle area high schools as a “cartoon reporter” for The Seattle Time’s Mirror newspaper
and has had his comic art featured in a multi-media production by Alchemia of Japan.

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