Eric Millikin is an American artist and activist based in Detroit, Michigan.
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25 Facts About Eric Millikin
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Eric Millikin is known for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence art, augmented and virtual reality art, conceptual art, Internet art, performance art, poetry, post-Internet art, video art, and webcomics.
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Eric Millikin's work is often controversial, with political, romantic, occult, horror and black comedy themes.
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Eric Millikin is a descendent of Mary Eastey, who was executed for witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials.
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Eric Millikin began drawing horror art by age one-and-a-half, and by second grade, he was making teachers profane birthday cards showing his school burning down.
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Eric Millikin began posting comics and art on the internet using CompuServe in the early 1980s, and began publishing on the World Wide Web in the early 1990s.
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Eric Millikin attended art school at Michigan State University in their Honors College.
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Eric Millikin paid his way through school by working in the school's human anatomy lab as an embalmer and dissectionist of human cadavers.
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Eric Millikin earned a Master of Fine Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in 2021.
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In 2002, Eric Millikin was an editor and contributing artist of the online alternative comics anthology Serializer.
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In 2005, Eric Millikin was one of the artists in the Clickwheel collective that published on the video iPod.
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Eric Millikin has had group exhibitions with Marilyn Manson and HR Giger.
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Eric Millikin's work is published in major daily newspapers like The Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, The Courier-Journal, The Des Moines Register, The Tennessean and USA Today.
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Eric Millikin is known for his political and social activism, with his artwork often tackling controversial issues.
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Eric Millikin has championed Barack Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as "Obamacare".
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Eric Millikin has used his artwork to raise money for causes like helping Hurricane Katrina victims, fighting diseases like muscular dystrophy, and granting wishes to terminally ill children through the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
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Eric Millikin has created posters campaigning to raise money for programs to improve adult literacy, auctioned artwork to support soup kitchen efforts to feed the hungry, and created artwork to help people in the city of Flint who had lead-contaminated water during the Flint water crisis.
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Eric Millikin's artwork has won many awards from organizations including the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, Associated Press, Society of Professional Journalists, Investigative Reporters and Editors, National Association of Black Journalists, Online Journalism Awards, and the Society for News Design.
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Eric Millikin's work has been nominated for multiple Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards, including their top honor of "Outstanding Comic".
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Eric Millikin has been a panelist and guest at webcomic conventions, including the inaugural New England Webcomics Weekend, the first convention organized by and focusing on webcomic creators.
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Eric Millikin's artwork is given by Scott McCloud as an example of using the web to create "an explosion of diverse genres and styles" and is described as "mind-blowing" by Comic Book Resources.
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Eric Millikin is one of the few, and first, webcomic creators successful enough to make a living as an artist.
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Eric Millikin's work has been praised by ESPN's Mike Tirico during a 2011 Monday Night Football half time show.
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Since 2000, Eric Millikin has been the target of protest campaigns organized by the Catholic League for what they call his "blasphemous treatment of Jesus".
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