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BIOGRAPHY
Oliver Gaspirtz, born in Aachen, Germany, is a cartoonist and web designer who currently resides in New York with his wife Debbie.
After immigrating to the US in 1993, he worked as art director for a newspaper in Manhattan. After the publication of his first book, The Truth About Cinderalla in December of 1993, Gaspirtz turned to single panel gag cartooning.
His cartoons have appeared in most major magazines across the United States, including the Saturday Evening Post, The National Times, American Legion, National Enquirer, SUN, and niche magazines such as Physician, The Medical Post, Hippocrates, Nutrition and Health Review, American Police Beat, The Police Officer's Journal, Teacher in Focus, and international humor publications like America's Funny Times, England's Punch, and Germany's Eulenspiegel magazine.
From 1993 to 1997, Gaspirtz was a contributing artist for King Features' syndicated daily comic strip The New Breed.
Between 1993 and 1998 Gaspirtz' cartoons were distributed by Deike Press, one of Germany's largest press services, as well as by PR Service Scherlinzky.
Gaspirtz's cartoons can be found in over a dozen books, published in Germany, England, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. Some of them include the best-selling Chickensoup for the Country Soul, A 5th Portion of Chickensoup for the Soul, and A Treasury of Veterinary Humor.
His work has been on display in over 20 major cartoon exhibitions around the world, including exhibitions in Germany, Belgium, Italy, Turkey, Poland, Lithuania, Iran, Japan, and The United States. The International Museum of Cartoon Art in Boca Raton, The Okhotsk Museum of Cartoon Art in Japan, The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco, The Ludwig Forum (Museum of Modern Art) in Aachen, Germany, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran, Iran, are just a few of the many museums that have added his work to their collections.
In 2000 he decided to publish his cartoons and comics exclusively online, and has since become one of the most ubiquitous cartoonists on the Internet. Many of his award-winning cartoons can be seen on his homepage at Gaspirtz.com.
Gaspirtz is also the creator of the game Bubble fun. Frustrated by a seemingly endless flood of clones of archetypal games like Pacman, Space Invaders, Tetris, and Asteroids, he successfully created a unique game concept that had never been done before.