James Kochalka
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James Kochalka is a comics artist and rock musician.
Kochalka is highly prolific in his comics work, which has earned him two Ignatz awards and nominations for the Firecracker Alternative Books award and the Will Eisner award. His work is characterized by a simple drawing style, bright colors, and frequent appearances by robots, elves, and monkeys. He currently keeps a webcomic, American Elf.
American Elf was released as a large collected edition by Top Shelf Productions in Summer, 2004, compiling five years of the daily diary strips and other supplemental material.
In his musical work, Kochalka's band, James Kochalka, Superstar, has released the albums:
- Carrot Boy the Beautiful
- The True Story of James Kochalka, Superstar
- Kissers
- Monkey Vs. Robot
- Don't Trust Whitey
- Hotchocolate Superstar (Internet-only, available from Dangerfive Records)
- Dangerforce Five Singles Club (A collaboration with Colin Clary)
Kochalka's best-known musical works are probably the songs "Pizza Rocket" and "Hockey Monkey", whose music videos were shown on Nickelodeon's animation showcase series Kablam!. Rykodisc is expected to release a Greatest Hits CD of Kochalka's music in 2005, with an album of new material, "Spread Your Evil Wings and Fly," expected to follow that release.
External links
- American Elf (http://www.americanelf.com/) - Kochalka's webcomic
- Dangerfive Records (http://www.dangerfive.com/) - Kochalka's record labelpt:James Kochalka