Moriarity, Pat

Current

• Teacher at Art Institute of Seattle
• Graphic artist / illustrator / cartoonist at home

Past

• Art Director at THE COMICS JOURNAL
• Art Director at Fantagraphics Books
• Production Artist at Fast Graphix

• Museum Guard at Walker Art Center

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Education

• Iowa State University
• SouthWestern Community College

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Connections

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Industry

Graphic Design

Websites

• My Website
• My Company
• My Company

Moriarity, Pat’s Summary

Design, Illustration, Cartooning, Animation for clients like NICKELODEON, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC KIDS, WONGDOODY, the documentary DERAILROADED, UNIVERSITY OF IOWA ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT, CANOE & KAYAK magazine, WILD records, ESTRUS records, CRUSTACEAN records, ARTIST ACID TEST, WFMU, SEATTLE WEEKLY, SASQUATCH BOOKS and others. Read all about it at www.PatMoriarity.com

Moriarity, Pat’s Specialties:

Humorous illustration, logo design, cartooning, story telling

Moriarity, Pat’s Experience

• Teacher

  Art Institute of Seattle

  (Educational Institution; Education Management industry)

  July 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

  Night School Teacher of cartooning, comics, sequential storytelling, storyboards, etc.

• Graphic artist / illustrator / cartoonist

  home

  (Graphic Design industry)

  1985 — Present (24 years )

  FULL TIME (as of 1998)- These days, I mostly draw “beautiful“ pictures for people and organizations, and design packages, posters and editorial cartoons....and the occasional animation. I've posted some of them on youtube.

• Art Director

  THE COMICS JOURNAL

  (Arts and Crafts industry)

  1995 — 1998 (3 years )

  Art Director of THE COMICS JOURNAL, the (monthly) magazine of comics news and criticism, whilst drawing the (bi-weekly) strip LOOP-DE-LOOP for THE ROCKET magazine (R.I.P. to my favorite Seattle paper, still)

• Art Director

  Fantagraphics Books

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)

  January 1991 — June 1998 (7 years 6 months)

  FULL TIME- I designed logos, book covers and supervised production artists as they assembled books by the world's greatest cartoonists. I also moonlighted as comic book artist for Fantagraphics, drawing BIG MOUTH COMICS.

• Production Artist

  Fast Graphix

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Graphic Design industry)

  1986 — 1990 (4 years )

  FULL TIME- a sleazy, corrupt, defunct business that went into chapter 11. After I got laid off, I freelanced there, and later found out I was the only one who got paid, while the actual employees got ripped off.

• Museum Guard

  Walker Art Center

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Museums and Institutions industry)

  1985 — 1990 (5 years )

  PART TIME- On the job, I met and spoke with Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein and Frank Gehry, among many other giants.
  I once told Walter Mondale, "Please don't touch the art".

Moriarity, Pat’s Education

• Iowa State University

  B.A. , Graphic Design , 1981 — 1985

  Actually graduated

  Activities and Societies:

  While a full-time student, also worked at COOP records and Tapes, and later at Ye Olde Print Shoppe in Ames, Iowa, burning plates and stripping negatives

• SouthWestern Community College

  art history 1980 — 1980

  drew naked people, threw pots and pumped iron

  Activities and Societies:

  studied fine art

Additional Information

Moriarity, Pat’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company
• My Company

Moriarity, Pat’s Interests:

politics, computers, animation, cartooning, illustration, fine art, running, hacky sac, Sasquatch

Moriarity, Pat’s Groups:

I agree with Groucho Marx about this topic.

•    Animation Army
•    Factsheet Five Alumni, Zine Publishers, and Friends
•    Cryptarchy VFX
•    Nickelodeon Employees & Alumni

Moriarity, Pat’s Honors:

Grand Prize Winner of Twin Cities Reader's first annual cartoon contest, 1988, out of over 300 entries
Harvey Award nominee 1994, for a comic book called BIG MOUTH
Rolling Stone Magazine "Hot Cartoonist" 1996
2 Print Magazine design certificate awards 1998, for book cover designs
Appeared in BEST OF NICKELODEON magazine, 2000
Winner of the esteemed GAP award from ARTIST TRUST of $6,000, based on my general career as a graphic artist, 2002
3 pieces honored in SOCIETY of ILLUSTRATORS MUSEUM of AMERICAN ILLUSTRATION, 2003
Juror for the SOCIETY of ILLUSTRATORS, NYC 2004
Illustration finalist, 2007 Toonie Awards
Cartoonist of the Year, for 2007, Cartoonists Northwest
Winner of the coveted "Golden Toonie" award, March 2008
Several cartoons appeared in BEST OF NICKELODEON EVER, 2009

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