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Harry Saxon           Illustrator / Designer / Colourist


Harold (Harry) Saxon is a versatile graphic artist with a broad portfolio of illustrative work for international clients in addition to his own practice as a cartoonist.  He has been employed by and collaborated with numerous publishing houses, national newspapers and periodicals. His work has appeared in anthologies and been exhibited in Greece, Italy, Serbia, Cyprus and the UK.
Born in Piraeus, Greece and based in Lancaster, he is working as a comics colourist, illustrator and a designer for event & performance publicity.
He is also a columnist writing about trans men’s issues for the Greek LGBT magazine Antivirus and he is volunteering for cultural and community projects in his adopted city.


Employment History


Projects (excluding private commission work)

Currently working on:
AMERICAN MALEVOLENCE comic series [UK]
SLASHERMANIA graphic novel (Freaktown Comics) [UK/US/Int’l]
RAINBOW KILLERS comic series (Bondage Bunny Comics) [CAN/Intl]
THE LEPER comic series [UK/DE/Intl]
THE DARK SIDE OF THE LUNE Lancaster based event organizers (identity) [UK]
ILL SNOW motion comic [US/Int’l]

2013-present

LOVE IS LOVE comics anthology for the victims of Orlando (IDW) [Int'l]
OLILOVES - FRANCE comic (You None) [GR]
PROUD PARENTS
Athens based LGBT charity (identity) [GR]
EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL "POW!!!" retrospective (promotional material) [UK]
RAINBOW FAMILIES GREECE Athens based LGBT charity (posters) [GR]
NESS comic series (promotional material) [UK]

B RHESUS animatic [GR/Int'l]

METAL MADE FLESH - THE FINAL PIECE OF ME comics anthology (Subversive Comics) [UK]
PROUD SENIORS GREECE Athens based LGBT charity ("Human rights and the elderly in LGBTqia spaces" posters, "Athens Pride Week Alzeheimers action" posters) [GR]
THE ROBERT GILLOW Lancaster based public house (suspended coffee scheme design, promotion posters) [UK]
VAPOCHEM (RESEARCH AND RETAIL) LIMITED Lancaster based e-cigarettes company (identity) [UK]
THE ROSE COMPANY Lancaster’s all-female theatre company (identity, CORIOLANUS posters) [UK]
LANCASTER PEOPLE’S CAFÉ community charity project (identity, posters) [UK]
LANCASTER FUN PALACE 2015 Free Arts and Sciences festival held at the Lancaster Library (designer, project manager) [UK]

OLILOVES comic series (You None) [GR]
STURGEON’S LAW  Lancaster based theatre company (PORTAL 2 BY TWO poster) [UK]
REMADE IN THE ROUGH HOUSE comic one-shot (Torsobear 2 comics anthology) [UK/Int'l]
FREAK-OUT SQUARES 3# comic series (Unthank Comics) [UK/Int'l]
TRANSREALITIES graphic novel [UK]
ANDREW JACKSON IN SPACE 1# comic series (Multiversity Comics) [US/Int'l]
TOMS GREECE shoe brand (promo illustrations) [GR/Intl]
JOSH COATES theatre maker (PARTICLES production's tour identity, poster, flyers) [UK]
KISS, KISS, BANG, BANG, a HALLOWEENMAN comic one-shot (Monsterverse Entertainment) [US/Int’l]
STURGEON’S LAW  Lancaster based theatre company (identity, M.A.I.R.O.U.L.A. 2015 tour poster and flyers) [UK]
JUST A FLESH WOUND comic one-shot (Steampunk Originals vol 8, Arcana Productions) [US/Int’l]
BURNING SUN comic one-shot (Unlawful Good comics anthology, Dude What? Comics) [US/UK/Int'l]
KNEE DEEP comic one-shot (Unlawful Good comics anthology, Dude What? Comics) [US/UK/Int'l]
RAISIN & WILLOW artists (Morecambe Winter Gardens SEA BREEZE identity, poster, limited edition promotional material, package labelling) [UK]
HOVÉLO Hove based cycling club (club top design) [UK]
FREAK-OUT SQUARES 2# comic series (Unthank Comics) [UK/Int'l]
PALMYRA graphic novel [UK/Int’l]
SH*T FLINGERS graphic novel [UK/Int'l]
LANCASTER FUN PALACE 2014 Free Arts and Sciences festival held at the Lancaster Library (designer, project manager) [UK]
THE DARK SIDE OF THE LUNE Lancaster based event organizers (monthly event posters) [UK]
THE JOURNEY AND OTHER SHORT STORIES (Neon Sky Books) [UK]
HOME INVASION comic one-shot (Torsobear - Yarns From Toyburg comics anthology) [UK/Int'l]
SHE SANG FOR BUTTONS, SHE UNSTITCHED MY HEART comic one-shot (Torsobear - Yarns From Toyburg comics anthology) [UK/Int'l]
FREAK-OUT SQUARES 1# comic series (Unthank Comics) [UK/Int'l]
HALLOWEENMAN comic series (Monsterverse Entertainment) [US/Int’l]
SLASHERMANIA graphic novel (Freaktown Comics) [UK/US/Int’l]
MORE MUSIC Morecambe based music charity company (FRONTIERLAND identity, poster, flyers and online banners) [UK]
THE ROSE COMPANY Lancaster’s all-female theatre company (identity, IPHIGENIA tour posters, leaflets, web banners, I HAVE A SPEECH OF FIRE posters) [UK]
OUT IN THE BAY LGBT group for Lancaster, Morecambe and surrounding areas (posters and flyers, online banners) [UK]
LEAP (LANCASTER EMERGING ARTS PLATFORM) production company/curators (M.A.I.R.O.U.L.A. production’s poster and flyers, LEAPING OUT identity, poster and flyers, FRONTIERLAND identity, poster, flyers and online banners) [UK]
MANCSTER CON ANTHOLOGY Manchester’s Mancster Con’s 1st Comic Anthology [UK]
HUMAN RESOURCES comic series (Arcana Productions) [US/Int’l]
THE INSOMNIAC comic series (Arcana Productions) [US/Int’l]
KAIJUU ONMYOJI comic one-shot (Steampunk Originals vol 4, Arcana Productions) [US/Int’l]
STURGEON’S LAW  Lancaster based theatre company (identity, M.A.I.R.O.U.L.A. 2013 production’s poster and flyers) [UK]
INNOCENT IN THE AFTERLIFE novel [Int'l]
THE UNDERCOVERED AGENT online comic series [US/Int’l]
ALL OUR YESTERDAYS book series (Neon Sky Books) [UK]
THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF GREECE – PIERCE DEREE ALBA Sociology Society [GR]

1999-2012
UNDERGROUND indie bookstore [GR]
JEMMA BOOKS publications and bookstores [GR]
MISTRESS comics anthology (Giganto) [GR]
SAPILLA comics anthology [GR]
BIG BANG comics anthology [GR]
PANTOUFL comics anthology  [GR]
ABOUT… comic series (SpoudaZO magazine) [GR]
HAPPY REVOLVER magazine [GR]
ASAPHEIES comic series (comicdom.gr ) [GR]
2 SPOONFULS OF GIRLYTHING FOR EVERY MALADY comics anthology (personal album) [GR]
CHRONICLES OF THE PALM TREE comic series (Chronicles Of The Dragonphoenix comics magazine, Soul Twinkles) [GR]
MYTH comics magazine (Soul Twinkles)  [GR]
SYNDROME comic series (Comicdom Press)  [GR]
ZINIOL Polish comics anthology  [PL]
PC MASTER magazine (Compupress) [GR]
24 ΗOUR COMICS DAY HELLAS 2010 comics anthology (Comicworld) [GR]
KIRIKO comic series (Eleftherotipia newspaper’s “9” comics magazine, Labrakis)  [GR]
MOUFA comic series (Eleftherotipia newspaper’s “9” comics magazine, Labrakis) [GR]
COMICS and STUFF* comics anthology (personal album, Comicdom Press) [GR]
CHORISSU magazine (Umi To Sora) [GR]
THE ATHENS VOICE newspaper [GR]
HILLSIDE PRESS children’s books editions [GR/Int’l]
ΜcMILLAN children’s books editions [GR/Int’l]
MOOK N’ ME comic one-shot (Womanthology: Heroic, IDW) [US/Int’l]
AND YOU SHALL KNOW THEM BY THE RAKES OF THEIR HATS comic one-shot (Womanthology: Heroic, IDW) [US/Int’]
MOOK N’ ME comic one-shot (Womanthology: Heroic  Greek Division) [GR]
THE CONSTITUTION OF GREECE FOR CHILDREN ( Legal Bookcase)  [GR]
FTM comic one-shot (Antivirus magazine) [GR]
FIGHT THE VIRUS comic series (Antivirus magazine) [GR]
THESS RAINBOW YOUTH, LGBTqia youth support group (posters and flyers, online banners) [GR]


Exhibitions:
Untagged, Thessaloniki Rainbow Youth exhibition @ Thessaloniki Pride, 2016, Salonica, Greece
Anti-racism exhibition, Deport Racism Movement, 2016, Ksanthi, Greece
En Ethria comics exhibition 2016, Athens, Greece
Lancashire LGBT film festival exhibition @ The Bureau, 2015, Blackburn, UK
COM(gen)ICS phase 2, online academic project/multimedia exhibition, 2015
Artists In The Nude, online project/exhibition, 2015
COM(gen)ICS, online academic project/comics exhibition, 2015
En Ethria comics exhibition 2015, Athens, Greece
The Doctor's Universe, Doctor Who exhibition, 2015, Treviso, Italy
The Doctor's Universe, Doctor Who exhibition, 2014, Milan, Italy
Genders and Authority festival, 2014, Nicosia, Cyprus
En Ethria comics exhibition 2014, Ispra, Italy / Athens, Greece et al
comics and cartoon exhibition @ Diversity Fest, 2011, Athens, Greece
comics exhibition@ Athens Comicdom Con, 2010, Athens, Greece
La Antenna comics exhibition @ Microcosmos cinema, 2009, Athens, Greece
Combum Comics Festival, 2009, Egion, Greece
En Ethria comics exhibition 2008, Athens, Greece
Greek Comics and Cartoon Panorama, 2007, Beograd, Serbia
Annual Cartoon Exhibition of Lafisti, 2007, Levadia, Greece
nameless comics exhibition, 2007, Salonica, Greece
nameless comics exhibition, 2006, Komotini, Greece
Delta dairies’ comic exhibition, 2006, Salonica, Greece
6th comics exhibition of Aristotelion University of Salonica , 2006, Salonica, Greece
5th comics exhibition of Aristotelion University of Salonica, 2005, Salonica, Greece
comics exhibition @ Cofix, 2004, Salonica, Greece


Associations/Volunteering

Antivirus bimonthly magazine 2016 – Present
Columnist aiming in providing help and awareness for trans-masculine people

Lancaster People’s Café 2015 – Present
Trustee of volunteer community organizing team, designer
Antivirus magazine online 2014 – Present
Columnist aiming in providing help and awareness for trans-masculine people
Greek Comics Academy 2014 – Present
Graphic novel and visual publications awards judge committee
Lancaster Fun Palace 2014 – Present
Founding member of organizing team of the annual arts and sciences festival, designer, project manager
LGB & T Out In The Bay  2013 – 2015
Volunteer staff and member of Lancaster LGBT group, graphic designer
Thess Rainbow Youth  2012 – 2013
Member of LGBTqia youth support group, administrative assistant, designer, illustrator and graphic artist
1st Thessaloniki Pride parade  2012
Administrative assistant
Homophonia  2012 – 2013
Assistant and member of LGBT group, designer
Queer-Trans Athens  2010 – 2014
Member of trans/queer support group
Comicdom Awards Academy  2009 – 2014
Graphic novel and visual publications awards judge committee
Comicdom Press  2008 – 2014
Editor, letterer and artist
Comicdom Con Athens  2007 – 2012
Member of the organizer team of the annual comics convention Comicdom Con Athens a.k.a. CCA (small press/self- publishers floor manager, project manager)
comicdom.gr  2006 – Present
Associate, artist and columnist
Comicdom  2006 – Present
Promotion of comic book and visual culture in Greece


Awards & Achievements

Apr 2010
Comicdom Awards Best Cover nomination
Nomination for best cover concept and artwork
Apr 2009
Comicdom Awards Best Indie Comic nomination
Nomination for best independent/self-published work
Apr 2006
Delta Dairies’ Comic Contest
2nd place award in comic contest/exhibition


Additional Information
Gallery/work samples:
http://asaph.deviantart.com/gallery/
 
https://www.facebook.com/HarryAsaphSaxonART
Links/bio:
 
http://about.me/harryasaphsaxon
Contact:
mynameisthemaster@gmail.com

Mobile phone: (0)7731 580 168
18 Grasmere Road
LA1 3HE
Lancaster