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Mike Dawson

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born

October 04, 1975 in The United Kingdom

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website

http://www.mikedawsoncomic.com

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Comics & Graphic Novels, Biographies & Memoirs

member since

December 2008

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Mike Dawson was born in England, and emigrated to the United States in 1986, where his family settled in Red Bank, New Jersey. He studied painting at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.

Since 2005 Dawson's work has appeared in a number of comics anthologies, including AdHouse Books successful Project: Superior collection, and issue #1 of the spin-off series, Superior Showcase. His first graphic novel, entitled Freddie & Me, an epic and unabashedly autobiographical story about his lifelong obsession with Freddie Mercury and the rock band Queen, was published in 2008 by Bloomsbury in the USA and Jonathan Cape in Great Britain. Italian, Spanish, French, and Czech editions are all planned.

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Books by Mike Dawson

Average rating: 3.65 · 352 ratings · 75 reviews · 6 distinct works

	Freddie & Me: A Coming-of-Age (Bohemian) Rhapsody 3.63 avg rating — 178 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Troop 142 3.55 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Ace-Face: The Mod with the Metal Arms 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	True Porn 2 by Robyn Chapman (Editor), David Bessent (Contributor), Cameron Chesney (Contributor) 3.73 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Project: Superior by Chris Pitzer (Editor / Contributor), Scott Morse (Editor / Contributor), Dean Haspiel (Editor / Contributor) 3.82 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	ACT - I - Vate Primer by Dean Haspiel, Nick Bertozzi, Mike Cavallaro 3.08 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2009	My rating:

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The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925

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Mike Dawson is currently reading: The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925 by Herbert George Gutman	My rating:
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