Trevor Alixopulos - 90s Mini-Comics Oral History Archives Project
Trevor Alixopulos' comics began from an obscure place, employing idiosyncratic characters and settings that resonate with some unusual significance to him, and the journey of the work is in how they become knowable. He starts a strip hoping to search and inhabit unfamiliar perspectives.
He tries to create comics that are superficially straightforward cartoons, with a smooth read, that nonetheless on completion leave the reader a bit confounded, with a different story told by the sum than by the parts. The language of the cartoon makes a deal with the reader as to how it will be "read" and what it represents, with terms always subject to change.
His limited edition collection of nightlife comics, Lipstick Traces was listed among the top comics of 2021 by the contributors of The Comics Journal and his graphic novel The Hot Breath of War was nominated for Outstanding Graphic Novel in the 2008 Ignatz Awards and featured on tcj.com's "Top 100 Comics of the Decade."
