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Podcast: Comics In Motion
Episode: Indie Comics Spotlight: David Cowles/The Escape Team
Description: This week, Tony is joined by Mr. David Cowles to discuss They Might Be Giants concept album/comic book The Escape Team
David Cowles was born in Rochester, N.Y. in 1961, the last of six children. His father, Hobart, was a Professor of Ceramics at Rochester Institute of Technology, and his mother, Barbara, was manager of Shop One, a Rochester gift shop heavy on the crafts.
Cowles landed a job at the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester in 1983, and began his freelance career two years later, leaving the paper to work freelance full-time in 1991. Cowles' work has appeared in Entertainment...