Lars Martinson (born 1977) is an American cartoonist.
Life Lars Martinson was born in 1977 in Minnesota. From 2003 to 2006, he lived and worked in Japan as an assistant English teacher with the JET Program. In 2007, he received a Xeric Grant for Comic Book Self-Publishers that allowed him to work on his graphic novel Tōnoharu.J. Brophy-Warren, PAGES: Drawn to the Rising Sun. A Graphic Novelist's Tale of Japan, The Wall Street Journal MAY 16, 2008 He went back to Japan in 2008 to study East Asian calligraphy with a two-year research scholarship from the Japanese government.Sunyoung Lee, East Meets West In Martinson’s Tonoharu, PW Comics Week May 20, 2008 He returned to Japan in July 2011 again to work with the JET Program.Personal website
Work Tōnoharu is the story of Dan Wells, an American assistant English teacher in rural Japan. It is inspired by Martinson's experience. It is a self-deprecatory, tender and humorous description of the daily life of an isolated dull unimaginative foreigner in a country whose language he does not master.See review by D. Cozy, Hatching out some teaching blues, Japan Times March 30, 2008
Books Young Men of a certain Mind, self-published, 2003 Tōnoharu, Part One, Pliant Press, 2008 (Paperback edition: Top Shelf Productions, September 2014, ).Review by D. Elkin, Tonoharu: Part One. Paperback Edition, in Tiny Pages Made of Ashes 10/3/2014: Comix Don’t Take No Crap , Comics Bulletin 2014/10/03. Tōnoharu, Part Two, Pliant Press, 2010 Tonoharu (French translation of both volumes), Le lézard noir, 2011 Tōnoharu, Part Three, Pliant Press, November 2016, .
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