Tim Fish

Tim Fish
Born	1970 (age 53–54) New Hampshire
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Writer, penciler, inker
Notable works	Cavalcade of Boys Liebestrasse Saved by the Bell: Freshman Year

Tim Fish (born 1970) is a comic book author and artist, known for the comics Cavalcade of Boys and its spin-off graphic novels; short stories for various anthologies; and the original graphic novel Liebestrasse, which has been nominated for both a Tripwire Award for Best Graphic Novel as well as a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book.

Early life

Fish was born in 1970 and attended the University of New Hampshire, where he had a twice-weekly comic strip running in the college newspaper, The New Hampshire, and started a 100-issue superhero comic called Arche-Lady. Tim began drawing strip comics at a young age, eventually evolving to mini comics and short graphic novels. His inspiration includes comics from the 1950s -early 1980s (specifically works of Alex Toth, Jack Kirby, Hugo Pratt, and Walt Simonson).

Career

Fish, who is openly gay, is known for his slice-of-life/romance print comic, Cavalcade of Boys. Cavalcade has been released in trade paperback format . Comics by Fish appeared regularly in Boston LGBT newspaper Bay Windows and in Brazilian magazine DOM from 2007-2008. Fish ran the daily webcomic anthology Young Bottoms in Love, which was published by Poison Press in graphic novel form in 2006 and features work by comic artists such as Howard Cruse, Paige Braddock, Abby Denson, Robert Kirby and Jack Lawrence.

Fish has contributed to several anthologies, and adapted an excerpt of Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights for Seven Stories Press. For Lionforge, he was an artist on an officially licensed comic series based on the NBC TV series Saved by the Bell from 2014-2015. In 2019, Comixology published Liebestrasse the graphic novel he co-created with Greg Lockard.

Personal life

Fish has lived in St. Louis, San Diego, and (currently) Somerville, MA.

Works

Books

• Boys in Love, H&O Éditions, 2006, ISBN 978-2-84547-141-2
• Cavalcade of Boys, Poison Press, 2006 ISBN 978-0-9762786-6-5
• Liebestrasse, Comixology Originals, 2019
• Love Is the Reason, Poison Press, 2008 ISBN 978-0-9762786-8-9
• Something Fishy This Way Comes, Poison Press, 2006 ISBN 978-0-9762786-5-8
• Strugglers, Poison Press, 2006 ISBN 978-0-9762786-3-4
• Trust/Truth, Poison Press, 2009 ISBN 978-0-9762786-9-6
• Saved by the Bell: Freshman Year, Roar (Lionforge Press), 2016 ISBN 978-1941302187

Anthologies

• Young Bottoms in Love, Poison Press, 2007 ISBN 978-0-9762786-7-2

Contributions

• The Book of Boy Trouble 2: Born to Trouble, edited by Robert Kirby and David Kelly, Green Candy Press, 2008 ISBN 978-1-931160-65-0
• Boy Trouble, edited by Robert Kirby and David Kelly, Boy Trouble Press, 2004 ISBN 0-9748855-0-9
• Happy Boys and Girls, Coniglio Editore, 2006 ISBN 88-6063-008-8
• Inbound #4, edited by Dave Kender, Dan Mazur, and Shelli Paroline, Boston Comics Roundtable, 2009 ASIN B00377AK58
• Nation X, Marvel Comics, 2010 ISBN 978-0-7851-3873-0
• Iron Man: Titanium, Marvel Comics, 2010
• Hopeless Savages Greatest Hits, volume 1, Oni Press, 2010 ISBN 978-1934964484
• The Graphic Canon, volume 2, Seven Stories Press, 2012 ISBN 978-1609803780
• No Straight Lines, Fantagraphics, 2013 ISBN 978-1606997185
• Strange Sport Stories, Vertigo, 2015 ISBN 978-1401258641
• Where We Live: Las Vegas Shooting Benefit Anthology, Image Comics, 2018 ISBN 978-1534308220

External links

• TimFishWorks.com
• "Tim Fish's comics navigate the stormy seas of romance". March 2009 Daily News (New York)