Justin Green (cartoonist)

For other people with this name, see Justin Green (disambiguation).

Justin Green
Born	Justin Considine Green 1945
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Cartoonist, Editor
Notable works	Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary
Influenced Robert Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Jim Woodring

Justin Considine Green (born 1945) is an American cartoonist who pioneered autobiographical comics. He is best known for his 1972 comic book Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary.

Green was a key figure in the 1970s generation of underground comics artists who appeared in Art Spiegelman's and Bill Griffith's anthologies Arcade and Young Lust. His artistic output slowed in the 1980s as he pursued a career as a professional sign painter (which he later described in his comic strip The Sign Game). Green claims that he is a first cousin to Hollywood film director William Friedkin. In the 1990s he returned to comics and has since produced mostly one- or two-page pieces for a variety of magazines, alternating slice-of-life stories with surveys of history and popular culture.

He lives in Cincinnati, and is married to the cartoonist Carol Tyler.

Bibliography (collections)

• 1994 - Justin Green's Sign Game. Last Gasp. ISBN 0-944094-14-7
• 1995 - Binky Brown Sampler. Last Gasp. ISBN 0-86719-332-8
• 2004 - Musical Legends (Monumental Musical Memories). Last Gasp. ISBN 0-86719-587-8

External links

• Justin Green biography
• Justin Green interview
• Memoirs of a Catholic Boyhood by Richard von Busack
• Pen Grenades: Justin Green's webcomic