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| - Though Sandlin's interest in graphic arts arose in Belfast as he pored over the now classic comic book art of Jack Kirky and Will Elder, his expertise in printmaking developed in Birmingham, where he completed a bachelor's degree in fine arts at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, in 1979. He moved to New York a year later and found employment printing artists lithographs at Styria Studio before taking a teaching position at the School of Visual Arts. His acquaintance with another instructor at SVA, Art Spielgelman, facilitated his push into bookmaking. Sandlin's earliest titles include Land of 1,000 Beers (self-published 1989), Burning Ring of Fire (Nexus Press, 1993), and Rapture of the Deaths of Desire (self-published, 1994). In 1995, he began his current series of books, A Sinner'
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| - Though Sandlin's interest in graphic arts arose in Belfast as he pored over the now classic comic book art of Jack Kirky and Will Elder, his expertise in printmaking developed in Birmingham, where he completed a bachelor's degree in fine arts at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, in 1979. He moved to New York a year later and found employment printing artists lithographs at Styria Studio before taking a teaching position at the School of Visual Arts. His acquaintance with another instructor at SVA, Art Spielgelman, facilitated his push into bookmaking. Sandlin's earliest titles include Land of 1,000 Beers (self-published 1989), Burning Ring of Fire (Nexus Press, 1993), and Rapture of the Deaths of Desire (self-published, 1994). In 1995, he began his current series of books, A Sinner's Progress. His comic art and illustrations have appeared in Blab!, The Ganzfeld, Harper's, MTV Publications, the New York Times, The New Yorker, Raw, Spin, Strappazin, Zero Zero, and many others. He is a recipient of grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Penny McCall foundation, among others. He currently lives in New York where he teaches printmaking and bookbinding at the School of Visual Arts. For the 2007/2008 academic year Sandlin was the Lamar Dodd Professorial Chair at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia.
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