1. Dean Haspiel is known for creating Billy Dogma, The Red Hook, and for his collaborations with writer Harvey Pekar on his American Splendor series as well as the graphic novel The Quitter, and for his collaborations with Jonathan Ames on The Alcoholic and HBO's Bored to Death.
Dean Haspiel has been nominated for numerous Eisner Awards, and won a 2010 Emmy Award for TV design work.
Later, Dean Haspiel attended the State University of New York at Purchase, first majoring in illustration and eventually switching to film.
In 1987, while still an undergraduate, Dean Haspiel inaugurated his professional comics career when he co-created The Verdict with Martin Powell.
Dean Haspiel went on to co-create the two-man comics anthology Keyhole with cartoonist Josh Neufeld.
Dean Haspiel was a long-time collaborator with Harvey Pekar on American Splendor.
In 2006 Dean Haspiel spearheaded the foundation of ACT-I-VATE, a webcomics collective which featured the works of founding members Dean Haspiel, Dan Goldman, Nick Bertozzi, Michel Fiffe, Leland Purvis, Nikki Cook, Tim Hamilton, and Josh Neufeld.
In 2008, Dean Haspiel serialized Street Code, a webcomic for Zuda Comics, after editing the webcomics anthology Next-Door Neighbor for SMITH Magazine.
That same year, Dean Haspiel illustrated Inverna Lockpez's Cuba: My Revolution, published by Vertigo.
Also in 2010, Dean Haspiel won an Emmy Award for outstanding main title design for the HBO show Bored to Death.
Since 2016, Dean Haspiel has been writing and drawing the serialized webcomic The Red Hook, about a master thief living in the "New Brooklyn Universe," for Webtoon.