Richard Sala

Richard Sala's work has been appearing for more than ten years in a wide variety of newspapers, books and magazines, as well as on toy packaging, greeting cards, on the Internet and in corporate reports. After debuting with a self-published magazine, 'Night Drive,' Richard Sala gradually became (as he puts it himself) the "king of the bad anthologies".

Once Sala appeared in Raw magazine, he became a regular feature in many different types of magazines, including Buzz, Twist, Escape, Drawn & Quarterly, and Rip Off Comix. He and Charles Burns even found their way into the mainstream by way of MTV's animation showcase 'Liquid Television'. Sala's animated serial, 'Invisible Hands' appeared on MTV, and his work can also be found on the CD-ROMs 'Freak Show' and 'Bad Day on the Midway'.

But Sala liked his horror-noir material best, so he concentrated on doing comics for magazines. His "magnum opus", 'The Chuckling Whatsit', was serialized over seventeen issues of the Fantagraphics 'Zero Zero' magazine. Several collections of his comics have been published and his comic book 'Evil Eye', a series in the tradition of horror-noir, received a rave review in Details magazine. Richard's paintings and prints have been exhibited internationally.