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Troy Little (born 7 March 1973〔) is a Canadian cartoonist working in comic books and animation. He is known for ''Chiaroscuro'', a graphic novel whose first volume (out of three) was developed between 2000 and 2005 under his Meanwhile Studios imprint. After winning two grants (Xeric〔 and P.E.I. Council of the Arts〔) and being praised by Dave Sim,〔 ''Chiaroscuro'' vol. 1 was released in 2007 by IDW Publishing. ==Biography== Troy Little was born on 7 March 1973 in Prince Edward Island, Canada.〔See Troy Little, "About".〕 In 1994, he graduated from the Interpretive Illustration program of Sheridan College, and has since worked as an animator. After living eight years in Ottawa, he moved back to Kensington, Prince Edward Island,〔See Journal Pioneer (2007-11-06).〕〔See CBC News (2007-09-07).〕 Canada. He is the father of twins girls, Alicen and Hayden.〔〔 In parallel to his daytime job in animation,〔〔 he writes and draws his own graphic novels. In September 2000,〔See Troy Little (October 2002).〕 he started work on his self-published black & white comic series ''Chiaroscuro'' with which he was awarded in 2001 a Xeric Grant.〔See Xeric Foundation (September 2001).〕 The comic was published bi-monthly and ran for seven issues ending prematurely in 2003 (both Little and his then wife having lost their jobs and having twins to raise〔). Little eventually continued to draw the missing issues #8-10 to conclude the first volume. In 2005, he was awarded a P.E.I. Council of the Arts Grants to enable him to continue work on the series.〔 In late 2005, he had completed his first storyline as the graphic novel ''Chiaroscuro: Patchwork Book 1'' (collecting issues #1-10), and started sending out a 100-copy POD run〔 to publishers. In 2007, this first volume of ''Chiaroscuro'' received an excellent review by independent comics legend Dave Sim (creator of Cerebus) written on his Blog & Mail.〔See Dave Sim (2007-01-17).〕 This review brought the book to the attention of Ted Adams, President of IDW Publishing in San Diego.〔〔〔See Dave Sim (2007-07-12).〕 IDW published a hardcover edition of the graphic novel in October 2007, and its trade paperback edition in October 2008. In January 2009, Troy Little released ''Angora Napkin'', a standalone graphic novel from IDW Publishing. ''Angora Napkin'' is also being developed into an animated pilot for Teletoon's late night program "Teletoon at Night" which was broadcast on Halloween night, 2010. He later created a second Angora Napkin graphic novel, ''Harvest of Revenge'', as well as the online serial ''Angora Napkin: The Golden McGuffin''. From 2013-2014 he wrote and drew the comic book series ''The Powerpuff Girls'', published by IDW and based on the Cartoon Network animated series. 2015 brought the news that Little had created the authorized graphic novel adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's book ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'', published in late October / early November by Top Shelf Productions. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Troy Little」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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