20 Facts About Paul Madonna

Paul Madonna was born on 1972 and is an American artist and author.

In 2003, Paul Madonna created "All Over Coffee", which was picked up by the San Francisco Chronicle in 2004.

Paul Madonna has served as "cartoonist-in-residence" artist in residence at San Francisco's Cartoon Art Museum, and was the recipient of the Northern California Book Award's Recognition Award for Best Book of the Year, 2011, for his second book, Everything is its own reward.

Paul Madonna has gone on to do large-scale public art, and launch a series of mystery novels.

Paul Madonna's work is exhibited internationally in galleries and museums, and his books continue to sell around the world.

Paul Madonna is an artist and author with a background in painting.

Paul Madonna is best known for his series "All Over Coffee," which he called a 'strip,' a comic strip without the comic, which feature detailed ink-on-paper drawings of urban cityscapes paired with flash fiction stories.

Paul Madonna began all his drawings for the series on site, and straight to ink.

Paul Madonna began with rendering his home town of San Francisco but has gone on to draw many US cities including New York and Los Angeles, as well as international locations such as Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, Shanghai, Beijing, and Tokyo.

In 2015 Paul Madonna ended the series with a story known as The Eviction Series, which is an absurdist short story about the tech boom in the San Francisco Bay Area.

In 2016 Paul Madonna released his first illustrated novel, Close Enough for the Angels, as a limited edition book at the Dryansky Gallery in San Francisco.

On November 6,2022, while finishing up The Commissions, Paul Madonna was involved in a major life-threatening auto accident.

Paul Madonna suffered multiple internal injuries, a brain bleed, a nicked carotid artery, lung collapse, and a shattered heel.

Paul Madonna is a prolific gallery artist, showing his original work internationally.

Paul Madonna's work has been shown in the Oakland Museum of California, the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, and the William Blake Association in France.

In 2022 Paul Madonna completed his first permanent public art project, a forty foot permanent glass installation at the San Francisco International airport.

In 2018 Paul Madonna partnered with Bay Area historian Gary Kamiya, whose Cool Gray City of Love was a best-seller.

Paul Madonna was supposed to work on Cool Gray City but had to pass because of other commitments.

Paul Madonna had been producing the series Quotable City for the Nob Hill Gazette, then invited Kamiya to launch a new series Spirits of The Bay.

Paul Madonna produces the comic strip "Small Potatoes" for Universal syndication.