About Justin Hall

Justin Hall is a cartoonist and the creator of the comics series Hard to Swallow (with Dave Davenport), True Travel Tales, and Glamazonia. He has stories in the Houghton Miflin Best American Comics, QU33R, Best Erotic Comics, and the SF Weekly, among others, and has exhibited his art in galleries and museums internationally.

Hall edited the Lambda Literary Award-winning, Eisner-nominated No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics, which he’s now producing as a feature-length documentary film. Most recently, he conceived and co-edited the anthology Theater of Terror: Revenge of the Queers. He curated the world’s first museum show of LGBTQ comics at the S.F. Cartoon Art Museum, as well as co-curated the largest such show at the Schwules Museum in Berlin.

Hall is the first Fulbright Scholar of Comics, an Associate Professor of Comics at California College of the Arts, the Co-Organizer of the Queers & Comics Conference, is on the boards of the non-profits Prism Comics (supporting LGBTQ comics) and Siewphewyeung/Our Books (supporting Cambodian comics), and has written chapters on both LGBTQ comics and erotic comics for the Routledge Companion to Comics and the Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel.

Hall spent years backpacking through over 70 countries and speaks decent Spanish, terrible French, and a smattering of other languages… just enough to get him in trouble. He lives in San Francisco with his husband and their pet python.

justinrobinsonhall@gmail.com