About

HANG DAI Editions was founded in the Fall of 2013 in NYC by Gregory Benton, Dean Haspiel, and Seth Kushner over their mutual dedication to comix art. The imprint focuses on limited edition comix, graphic novels, and art books, with an emphasis on personal interaction at events, conventions, and signings. Josh Neufeld joined HDE in 2014.

HANG DAI Editions – creator owned, independently-produced signature works.

Read an interview with Benton, Haspiel and Kushner about the new imprint at Bleeding Cool, by Hannah Means-Shannon

Email us at: HangDaiEditions@gmail.com

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Gregory Benton has been making comix since 1993. He cut his teeth on the political anthology World War 3, moving on to writing and drawing stories for Nickelodoeon, Vertigo, DC Comics, Disney Adventures, Watson-Guptil, Entertainment Weekly, as well as contributing to numerous alternate-press comix anthologies. A graphic novel, Hummingbird, was published by Slave Labor Graphics in 1996. Gregory has also produced numerous limited-edition mini-comix. Hopefully you have some. His illustrations have appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice and Fortune, among others. Most recently, his book B+F was awarded the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art’s inaugural Award of Excellence at MoCCAFest 2013. An expanded version of B+F has been released through Adhouse Books (USA) and Editions ça et la (France). GregoryBenton.com

Emmy award winner and Eisner Award nominee Dean Haspiel created Billy Dogma, The Red Hook, illustrated for HBO’s “Bored To Death,” was a Master Artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, is a Yaddo fellow, a playwright, helped pioneer personal webcomics with ACT-I-VATE, and TripCity.net, and is the co-founder of Hang Dai Editions in Brooklyn, NY. Dino has written and drawn many comicbooks, including The Fox, Spider-Man, Batman, X-men, The Fantastic Four, Wonder Woman, Deadpool, Godzilla, Mars Attacks, and literary collaborations with Harvey Pekar, Jonathan Ames, Inverna Lockpez, Jonathan Lethem, and Stan Lee. Look out for his latest graphic novels, FEAR, MY DEAR: A Billy Dogma Experience, his semi-autobiographical, BEEF WITH TOMATO, and his upcoming webcomic series, The Red Hook on LINE WebToons. For more info, visit DeanHaspiel.com

Seth Kushner’s photography appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Time, Newsweek, L’Uomo Vogue, The New Yorker and others and is a founding member of Hang Dai Studios. He published three books: The Brooklynites (with Anthony LaSala) in 2007. Leaping Tall Buildings: The Origins of American Comics (with Chris Irving) in 2012 (both published by powerHouse Books), and Schmuck (with various artists), a semi-autobiographical graphic novel from Hang Dai Editions in 2015. His posthumous superhero, The Brooklynite (co-created & illustrated by Shamus Beyale), will debut at LINE Webtoons in 2016. Seth battled cancer for a year and passed away in May of 2015, leaving behind his wife Terra and son Jackson.  For more info, visit SethKushner.com.

Josh Neufeld is known for his graphic narratives of political and social upheaval, told through the voices of witnesses.  He is the author of A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge (Pantheon). In addition, he is the illustrator of The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media (W.W. Norton). He was a 2013 Knight-Wallace fellow in journalism at the University of Michigan. Neufeld won the Xeric Award for his first book, a collection of autobiographical travel stories called A Few Perfect Hours. He lives in Brooklyn. JoshComix.com