Ansis Puriņš is a freelance illustrator and cartoonist based in Boston, MA. When he’s not immersed in the world of the Super Magic Forest, he’s making comics for Craft Beer and Brewing Magazine and working on other projects for clients. He has won grants from the Xeric Foundation as well as the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo (M.I.C.E.) for his work. Email him for your illustration, concept design, and character trademark needs.
Clients Include:
Businesses: A.D. Injection Labs, American Liver Foundation (New England chapter), the City of Boston, Cumberland Farms, Holgate Toys, Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo (MICE), Rockport Shoes, Ska Brewing Company, Wheelhouse Pickles.
Publications/TV: The Boston Globe, Boston Phoenix, Boston Weekly Dig, Comedy Central, Craft Beer and Brewing Magazine, Rocktober Magazine.
Bands: The Copacetics, Crazy Baldhead, Let's Go Bowling, Piebald, Skavoovie and the Epitones, Victor Rice.
Schools/Universities: Bancroft School, Brimmer and May School, Harvard Art Museums.
See examples of my illustration work for clients on my OTHER WORK page.
Exhibitions:
Harvard Staff Art Show, 2021, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Super Magic Forest (solo show), 2017, Washington Street Gallery, Somerville, MA
Resist!, 2017, Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA
Handbills of Subversion, 2016, MF Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Garamaniacal Too: Dreams and Death of a Meteor Monster, 2015, FOE Gallery, Northampton, MA
Nature Calls, 2012, Subtext Gallery, San Diego, CA
I... You... We... Robot: A Visual Homage To Our Inner Geek!, 2010, Space 242, Boston, MA
POP Euphoria!, 2008, Aurora Gallery, Worcester, MA
Ink & Steel: Ansis Purins and Skunk, 2008, Space 242, Boston, MA
Awards:
Solstice Literary Magazine’s inaugural Graphic Lit Award, 2021, for my comic “Inside” (Summer issue).
Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo (MICE), 2014, MICE Mini-Grant winner for Zombre #3.
Xeric Foundation, 2010, publishing grant for Zombre #2: The Magic Forest.
Print Magazine Regional Design Award, 2008, for client Wheelhouse Pickles.
Books:
Check out my COMICS page to see my publications.