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Gabriel Mason Howell<\/span> is a trans male cartoonist, illustrator, and printmaker. Howell was born in a small rural town in northern North Carolina in 1996 and spent his childhood in Virginia, but only ever considered Chicago home. In 2018, he received his BFA from School of the Arts Institute of Chicago with a focus on comics and printmaking. While living in Chicago, he began making comics by self-publishing his work which was met with love and enthusiasm within the alternative comics community. Howell has since been published by Bred Press, Lumpin Magazine<\/em>, Bad at Sports Sunday Comics<\/em>, Pallor Pink, Cow House Press, the Bridgeport Lathe<\/em> and others he\u2019s tricked into thinking he is a good artist. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his well-known pop musician wife, mostly doing design and illustration work for music acts such as Phoebe Bridgers, 100 gecs, Perfect Hair Forever and PC Music, and he has an ongoing relationship working with WKND skateboards.<\/p>\n

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\nIN PRAISE OF GABRIEL HOWELL<\/span><\/p>\n

Like<\/span> a cherished keepsake rebelling against the cruelties of an online auction, the wayward waifs of Howell\u2019s porcelain landscape are forced to fight their way through splintered selfhood in a broken world. Vulnerable and scrappy, wistful and ferocious, Forget Me Not<\/em> is a sharp pinch in a tender place<\/p>\n

– Edie Fake, author of Gaylord Phoenix<\/span><\/p>\n

I feel understood by Gabriel’s work. We both have lives that require us to be hyper-visible without giving away so much that we hurt ourselves. Forget Me Not<\/em> captures the painful balance of nakedness, shame, dread, loneliness, and anger that drives those of us who make our living from the curiosity and hunger of the public.<\/p>\n

– Carta Monir, author of Secure Connect<\/span><\/p>\n

Honest, unsettling, made with a tremendous amount of skill (all the while remaining stunningly unique), this is a comic to contend with\u2026 \u2026Themes of art, family, failure and fear all creep around the edges in a work that breathes thought and honed execution.<\/p>\n

– Austin English, author of Gulag Casual<\/span><\/p>\n

MORE PRAISE FOR GABRIEL HOWELL<\/span><\/a>\n