Cover illustration for Seattle Weekly WTO.
Michael Wayne Dougan was a Seattle-based cartoonist, originally from East Texas. From the late 1980s through the mid-1990s, he published his largely autobiographical stories in in anthologies such as Weirdo and Drawn & Quarterly. He also did commercial work for Entertainment Weekly, and contributed to Dennis Eichhorn's autobiographical comic book series 'Real Stuff'. Collections of his work, such as 'East Texas: Tales from behind the Pine Curtain' (1988) and 'I Can't Tell you Anything' (1993) are a showcase for Dougan's talent for storytelling. Among the stories included is the famous 'Chicken Trilogy', his ongoing war with vehicles, and a very weird but compelling tale about his job in an ice cream parlor. Michael Dougan also worked on an animated cartoon, 'The Dangwoods', for MTV's Liquid Television.
Dougan later moved to Yokohama, Japan, moving again to the town Tono. In 2023, Dougan passed away in Tono, Japan, from brain cancer. He was 64 years old. Dougan was a good friend of Matt Groening, who considered Dougan a strong influence on his own work.
Comic art by Michael Dougan.