About the Author

Tony Fitzpatrick is a Chicago-based artist best known for his multimedia collages, printmaking, paintings, and drawings. Fitzpatrick's works are inspired by Chicago street culture, cities he has traveled to, children's books, tattoo designs, and folk art. Fitzpatrick has authored or illustrated eight books of art and poetry, and, for the last three years, has written a column for Newcity. Fitzpatrick's art appears in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the National Museum of American Art in Washington DC. The Neville Brothers' album Yellow Moon and Steve Earle's albums El Coraz�n and The Revolution Starts Now also feature Fitzpatrick's art. In 1992, Fitzpatrick opened a Chicago-based printmaking studio, Big Cat Press, which exists today as the artist exhibition space Firecat Projects. Before making a living as an artist, Fitzpatrick worked as a radio host, bartender, boxer, construction worker, and film and stage actor.

Reviews

Praise for Dime Stories:
Two sides of Chicagoan Fitzpatrick's incandescent creativity, the visual and the literary, are on display in this live-wire volume. Dozens of his intricately patterned, layered, tattoo-like collages, drawings, and paintings pulse with energy, tough romanticism, and wry wit, works shaped by Fitzpatrick's evocative lexicon of birds, flowers, pinups, constellations, dogs, numbers, logos, and cartoon characters.
--Booklist This brilliant view into the wild world of Tony Fitzpatrick will move you. His art is astounding and relevant, his writing gutsy, funny, and unafraid. In the tradition of the the great Chicago and Illinois icons--Terkel, Twain, Royko, and Sandberg--Tony Fitzpatrick takes on the phonies and con men and elevates the humanity in us all. From beautiful birds to bar room brawls, Dime Stories exemplifies the work of a true renaissance man. Grab this book and cherish it.
--Andrew Davis, director of The Fugitive, Code of Silence, and Holes

Praise for Dime Stories:
Two sides of Chicagoan Fitzpatrick's incandescent creativity, the visual and the literary, are on display in this live-wire volume. Dozens of his intricately patterned, layered, tattoo-like collages, drawings, and paintings pulse with energy, tough romanticism, and wry wit, works shaped by Fitzpatrick's evocative lexicon of birds, flowers, pinups, constellations, dogs, numbers, logos, and cartoon characters.
--Booklist This brilliant view into the wild world of Tony Fitzpatrick will move you. His art is astounding and relevant, his writing gutsy, funny, and unafraid. In the tradition of the the great Chicago and Illinois icons--Terkel, Twain, Royko, and Sandberg--Tony Fitzpatrick takes on the phonies and con men and elevates the humanity in us all. From beautiful birds to bar room brawls, Dime Stories exemplifies the work of a true renaissance man. Grab this book and cherish it.
--Andrew Davis, director of The Fugitive, Code of Silence, and Holes