BRAD TEARE

Utah artist Brad Teare maintains a career as both illustrator and fine arts painter. Clients include The New York Times, Fortune and Random House, where he has created book covers for authors such as James Michener, Ann Tyler, and Rafael Yglesias. Teare’s comics creations have appeared in Heavy Metal and the Big Book series from Paradox Press. His "silent" adaptation of The Star appears in Graphic Classics: H.G. Wells. Brad is currently Senior Designer at The Friend magazine. He is now turning his graphic novel Cypher (excerpted in Rosebud 20 ) into a screen play. You can check out more work at www.st45.com/cypher.

“I was intrigued by the H.G. Wells story The Star mostly for its dissimilarities to my storytelling style,” Brad says. “That which Wells tends to elaborate, I abbreviate. I wanted to take his story and compress it into its minimal shape creating a black hole to pull the viewer through the experience quickly. Controlling the viewer’s rate of information assimilation is very important to me. A novel demands a fixed amount of time. A painting is assimilated instantly. The comics medium fluctuates between these two poles of time and space.”