Hi, I'm Gordon.
I'm a fast, meticulous print production artist, retoucher and illustrator with over 10 years of experience.
I'm a bit of a perfectionist — but that wouldn't matter if I couldn't work quickly enough to meet your tight deadlines. So it's a pretty good thing that I know InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop inside-out: my artistic background helps me make the cleanest, most accurate die lines and masks you've ever seen, and my technical expertise ensures that your printed piece as your designer intended — or better.
All work and no play? No way.
I have written articles, film and book reviews, and interviews for a variety of web and print publications, including Gapers Block; Bookslut; PISTIL Magazine, a “Best New Title” nominee in 2005’s Utne Independent Press Awards; and Comic Book Galaxy.
Not content to simply write about books, movies and comics, I also wrote and drew (with a little help, on occasion) the book-centric non-fiction comic strip Stripped Books, from October 2004, to April 2006, originally for Bookslut and then later its own site. Since July, 2005, I have written and drawn Multiplex, a twice-weekly humor comic strip about the staff of a movie theater; its first print collection, Multiplex: Enjoy Your Show was published in September 2010.
I have contributed comics features to Memoir (and), PISTIL Magazine and Barrelhouse. From 2007 to early 2010, I co-hosted The Triple Feature, a weekly, live talkcast about movies, with two other movie-loving cartoonists, and from 2008–2010, I edited (and co-wrote) the movie news blog Movie Make-out. And I like to take photos, too.
What can I do for you?
If you have any opportunities you'd like to discuss with me, call me at 773-710-6632 or e-mail me <at> gordonmcalpin <dot> com.