Geoffgrogan.com Geoff Grogan has been an independent cartoonist for more than 25 years and a working artist for much longer. His most recent comics are two issues of “Captain Daquiri Jones and the Space-Rockettes” a political satire disguised as a 1950’s style sci-fi adventure comic, the second of which, “Captain Daiquiri Jones & The Space-Rockettes: The Sunday Adventures” features old-school style Sunday adventure strips in a tabloid newspaper format. In 2024, he also published another political piece, “Donut & The Cheeseburger: Race for the White House”, successfully funded on Kickstarter. In 2025 Grogan completed a short animated film, “Johns” about the impact one artist’s work (Jasper Johns) can have upon another’s and which was awarded “Best Short Film” at the 2025 “Feedback Animation Film & Screenplay Festival”. https://youtu.be/uGJRGWILpGk?si=13hNCPczW_ok0A7B As a side-project, in 2018 Grogan began a podcast called “Blockhead: Cartoonists talk Comics” on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Pandora, where he has been fortunate enough to have great conversations with many of his favorite cartoonists, including: Ray Billingsley, Lynn Johnston, Brian Walker, Seth, Mike Allred, Joe Staton, John Rose,Will Henry, Tauhid Bondia and many others. He was a Xeric award winner (Look Out! Monsters; 2007), and cartoonist of two comic strips formerly at GoComics.com (Plastic Babyheads from Outer Space and Jetpack Jr.). Before, in and around that time, he self-published four issues of a slightly tongue-in-cheek super-hero adventure, Dr. Speck, serialized a graphic novel (Nice Work) on the late-lamented website, ModernTales.com, and produced an over-sized mixed-media comic book, fandancer, identified as a “notable comic” by Houghton-Mifflin’s America’s Best Comics series(2011). In 2010-11, he co-published (with Kevin Mutch of Fantagraphics’ The Rough Pearl) an oversize broadsheet newspaper of alternative comics; “pood” featuring his own work alongside award-winning creators such as Mutch, Jim Rugg, Bisakh Som and Joe Staton, among many others. In 2018-20, he worked on a humor-adventure comic book series, “GreenScreen”, the first two issues of which were successfully funded on Kickstarter. He is an Associate Professor of Art and Art History at Adelphi University, where he teaches a variety of classes on comics and animation His comics-oriented collages and paintings have been exhibited nationally and internationally, most prominently at the prestigious Drawing Center in lower Manhattan. He lives happily in a country home near his hometown of Endicott ,NY, with his wife, two dogs and four cats, on a sprawling 20+ acres.

Areas of Expertise

• Animated media • Comic Book • Gag Cartoon • Online Comics: Short Form