Robert Sergel was born in 1982 in Boston. In 2005, he graduated from New York University with a degree in photography. You can view some of his photos on his website robertsergel.com. His comics often, beautifully, contain evidence of photo referencing.
He’s drawn a weekly online comic since 2005 for the Transplant Comics collective, and recently self-published the first issue of his book, Eschew. Sergel continues to update his comics site idiotcomics.com and is working on the second issue of Eschew which will be published by Sparkplug Comic Books. He currently lives in Cambridge, MA, and recently contributed to the Boston Comics Roundtable’s anthology In Bound #3.
His books are available for purchase through his online store or in the Secret Acres Emporium.
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Guest Strip | smorean May 22, 2009 | 
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Danny Dutch
by David King
Sparkplug Comic Books
David King has created a book in which the art and dialogue unite almost at random. It’s a kind of comics poetry, and it’s done well.
The “av” elements spend most of their time on the page like twins separated at birth — alike and related, but with personalities completely informed by their disparate environments and experiences.
The art is g-g-g-gorgeous. King’s little characters, with their miniature limbs and classic, but over-the-top hairstyles and outfits, are easy to spend time with.
There’s no real plot, just a current of ache that moves through the book. The characters wear bewildered expressions, lack confidence, and almost treat each other like objects in a room passing time rather than as friends or lovers. It lays a strange mood on the reader, and even though I’ve re-read this book enough times to know what that mood is, I can’t quite put a finger on it. It’s really unique.
I’ve seen people try without success to reach this level of dull malaise, but in Danny Dutch, King is the first cartoonist I’ve seen in awhile who really nails it.
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