Tim Fish


Tim Fish 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.

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 Somerville, MA.

Works

Books