David Boswell

Born in London, Ontario, Canada in 1953. First comic strip -- HEART BREAK COMICS, starring Laszlo, Great Slavic Lover -- published in the Vancouver "underground" weekly Georgia Straight 14 July 1977. In June 1978 a new strip entitled REID FLEMING, WORLD'S TOUGHEST MILKMAN appeared.

The first REID FLEMING comic book was published by the author in October 1980, and has never been out of print. In 1984 HEART BREAK COMICS was co-published by the author and Last Gasp of San Francisco. From 1986 to 1990 a new REID FLEMING series was published by now-defunct Eclipse Comics of California; the five books comprised the graphic novel ROGUE TO RICHES. In 1991 Eclipse published a compendium of all the REID FLEMING comics entitled FUN WITH REID FLEMING, in both soft- and hard-cover editions. Three hundred copies of the hard-cover edition included a tipped-in colour plate signed by the author.

In 2011 I.D.W. of San Diego published the first of two volumes collecting all the REID FLEMING comics, as well as HEART BREAK COMICS. Volume II will contain a new REID FLEMING graphic novel called ANOTHER DAWN.

Also in 2011 Mr. Boswell was inducted into the Canadian cartoonists Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Toronto, part of the annual Doug Wright Awards. The title "Giant of the North", along with a medal created by esteemed cartoonist Seth, was bestowed upon the author at the Art Gallery of Ontario on 7 May 2011.

Mr. Boswell is also a photographer, and his portrait of Leonard Cohen (shot in Vancouver in 1978 for the Georgia Straight) will be the cover image for the forthcoming authorised biography by Sylvie Simmons.

Mr. Boswell is married, the proud father of three grown children, and lives in Vancouver, B.C.

www.reidfleming.com

www.davidboswell.ca