Wayne Hogan is a self-taught artist and writer. His first drawings were mostly left-profiles of Hitler, Mussolini, and Tojo on the blackboard during recess at the one-room Hill Grade School lcoated three and a half miles southwest of Newalla, Oklahoma during WWII. His first "writing" took the form of Lincolnesque speeches he concocted and recited as he roamed alone through the rural woods surrounding his home. Hogan began doing art seriously in about 1980. His first sale was a series of photo essays to Country Living Magazine. Shortly after that, his cartoons and illustrations, poems and essays began to appear in various literary and commercial publications, including numerous acceptances by The Christian Science Monitor.
Wayne counts as one of his all-time most notable accomplishments an advance and contract with Alfred A. Knopf to publish a book of his cartoons in the early 1990s, although it did not come to full fruition. Being paid the advance was a success of its own. Another of Hogan's accomplishments in Art and Writing is a more than twenty-five year track record of seeing at least one of his cartoons, poems or essays published in every issue of the venerable literary journal, Abbey. And, for the past fifteen years, Hogan has been the resident-artist-in-absentia for the equally venerable Kings Estate Press.
Currently, Hogan exhibits his art at local galleries, contributes artwork and writing to several literarly journals, and writes, illustrates and publishes his own chapbooks under the little books press imprimatur. You are invited to see more of his work at www.waynehogan.com.
