Walt Holcombe - ProfilesArchive

About Me

"Things Just Get Away From You" is the 216 page, hardcover collection of my work, published by Fantagraphics Books. You can buy a copy directly from Fantagraphics by clicking on the cover image below. The book is also available through Amazon.
"Holcombe is largely to blame for enticing me to the medium. His work is a cartoon Trojan horse that lures the reader with bouncing whimsical brush lines and then unleashes the most lonely and brutal sentiments. Musical, poetic, and ornamental, a blend of Victorian novels and Dr. Seuss."
- Craig Thompson
"Walt Holcombe is a true original: his jazzy drawings and mellifluous prose (to say nothing of his partiality for pathetic nebbishes, marine adventures, and 'the exotic') concoct a personal, perfectly-timed viand redolent of 1920's humorists, Cliff Sterrett, and more than anything, of Walt himself. I should also add that a big-hearted compassion backs his work like a stretched canvas behind paint."
- Chris Ware
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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

The Courtship of Sniffy LaPants
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTR563d8w1I

And here's an animated short I did a few years back, "The Courtship of Sniffy LaPants". The animation's a little sketchy, but the voices and music are fantastic! Yehudi Mercado is high-larious as the voice of Sniffy. Music performed by brilliant musicians from Austin's tango orchestra, Tosca.

Music:

Classical, old-timey, soundtracks, jazz, some rock (I'm still catching up, due to a rock-deficient adolescence).

Movies:

The Forbidden Zone, Life Aquatic, The Nights of Cabiria

Television:

The Rockford Files, Mr. Show, Venture Bros, Battlestar Galactica, Stargate Atlantis, 30 Rock

Books:

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Confederates in the Attic, Mysteries, The Neurotic Personality of Our Time, Breakfast of Champions, White Jacket