Colin Upton

Colin Upton (born April 2, 1960) is a Canadian cartoonist and artist who was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. Many of his comics are self-published in the minicomic format, although he has also had his work issued by commercial publishers such as Fantagraphics Books and included in anthology collections such as Drippytown Comics & Stories. He is a co-host of the Inkstuds radio program, broadcast on CITR-FM at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

Since the mid-1980s, Upton has performed numerous times as a member of GX Jupitter-Larsen's noise band/performance art troupe The Haters. Upton's Happy Hater minicomics are based on the group's concepts and ideas.

Bibliography (selected) Colin Upton's Big Thing (Ed Varney, 1990) Colin Upton's Other Big Thing (Fantagraphics, 1991) Colin Upton's Big Black Thing (Starhead Comix, 1994) Buddha on the Road (Aeon Publications, 1995–1997) The Totimorphous (Side-Show News & Co, 2006) 9-11 Colin Upton Comics Famous Bus Rides The Granville Street Gallery The Happy Hater Happy Ned Real Rubbie Comix Self-indulgent Comics Socialist Turtle Colin Cthulhu Diabetes Funnies Post-Modern Mini-Comics Two-Fisted Tales of Tea Confessions of a Tabletop General Canadian History Mini-Comics