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Bret

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About Me

My name is Bret M. Herholz. I am a freelance illustrator and Youth Art Instructor. I am the author of Diary of the Black Widow published by Alterna Comics and a member of the The Undercoverfish Group . I teach youth art for the Worcester Art Museum, Pincushion Hill Montessori School and the New Jewish Academy. You can check out more of my work on my website:
Diary of the Black Widow and Confessions of a Peculiar Boy... and Other Stories are available for purchase from the fine folks at Alterna Comics! Click on the covers below to purchase your copy today!Diary of the Black Widow is also available from these fine online retailers:Black Widow t-shirts, prints, mugs, totes, baby apparel and beer steins are available for purchase. Click on the banner to visit the Black Widow Store:

My Interests


Art, writing, family, friends, cats, old movies, beer, absinthe (on occassion) and UNO. I am obsessed with Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, British wit, the Marx Brothers and Mabel Normand.

I'd like to meet:

Bjork.

Music:

Regina Spektor and Rori Shapiro!!

Movies:

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, the Ruling Class, Being There, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Bedazzled, Withnail and I and nearly anything with the Marx Brothers or Monty Python in it.

Television:

Doctor Who, House, Family Guy, Jonathan Creek, TMC, Homestarrunner.com and Red Sox Baseball.

Books:

Lewis Carroll, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde, P.G. Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh, Spike Milligan and Stephen Fry.

Heroes:

Groucho Marx, Spike Milligan and Peter Cook.

My Blog

My Black Widow interview is back up on WICN

WICN has just reformatted their website and has started archiving all the interviews done on Mark Lynch's program Inquiry. So, if you would like to get the chance to hear and download the interview I ...
Posted by Bret on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:31:00 PST

Batman: The Killing Joke is online!!!

The Killing Joke and The Dark Knight Returns is what got me into both Batman and comic books!! I remember first reading both around the time Tim Burton's Batman came out in 1989. That was the summer r...
Posted by Bret on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:41:00 PST

The Bishops Lounge and Tunnel Bar all in one night!!

Up way past my bedtime but so worth it. My buddy Josh and I decided that we would make a trip out to the Bishops Lounge out in Northampton MA yesterday afternoon. The weather was gorgeous yester...
Posted by Bret on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:11:00 PST

Take an art class!!

There's still ample time (well a week actually) to sign up for April Art Classes. To check them out, click on the link below: April Art Classes Click on the link below to check out the classes I will ...
Posted by Bret on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:51:00 PST

Come on out and see some Faculty Art!!

The Worcester Art Museum is displaying some of the Faculties ART IN PROGRESS and you all should come out to see it!! There are some really great pieces in the show displaying either works in progress ...
Posted by Bret on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:34:00 PST

Just watched the first new episode of Doctor Who last night :-)

I just couldn't wait till it aired on Sci-Fi next week. I HAD TO watch Partners in Crime last night on Youtube. It feels like ages since I saw Last of the Timelords, so I have been itching for the new...
Posted by Bret on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 08:19:00 PST

New Glasses Day!!!

I’m all excited because I will be getting new glasses today. Yes, it doesn’t take much anymore. I was finally able to go for an eye exam last week. I’ve been meaning to go for one si...
Posted by Bret on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:50:00 PST

Graphic Novel Program at Emerson

Andy Fish is a great guy, he’s done a lot of really terrific comic art classes at the Worcester Art Museum and is probably the best person suited to spearhead this Graphic Novel progra...
Posted by Bret on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:56:00 PST

I have entered the world of MAC

I just got a three or four year old MAC for free recently!! Which means I can start doing more of my graphic work from the comforts of my own home rather than driving out to the Art Museum on a Sunday...
Posted by Bret on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 11:39:00 PST

Another project in the works...

On top of Polly and Handgraves, Representation and the graphic novel I’m working on with Josh I have just started work on a fourth project. What’s it about? Well... I’m not telling!!...
Posted by Bret on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:59:00 PST