Comic Feature – Mark Tatulli

Mark Tatulli is a comic strip writer/artist, animator, and television producer, known for his work on the cable reality television series Trading Spaces and A Wedding Story, for which he has won three Emmy Awards. Tatulli began drawing in elementary school, where his cartoons first appeared in the school’s newspaper.

After trying unsuccessfully to promote eight different strips over a decade, his first comic strip was Bent Halos, which features two angels named Harold and Mort who achieve little success in their attempted roles as guardian angels. Liō, which has been published since May 2006, is a “sweetly dark” pantomime cartoon without dialogue that was inspired by Tatulli’s love of the horror movies he watched while growing up as a child in the 1970s.

The title character is a “weird little boy” who inhabits a world occupied by aliens, monsters, robots, and other strange characters. According to Tatulli, he came up with the name “Lio” because he “wanted a simple name to go with the simple, wordless concept. Just three letters.” In 2012, Tatulli released Lio: There’s a Monster in My Socks, a book compiling comic strips from the first year that the cartoon was distributed, with a focus on those strips that would most appeal to children. In 2009 Tatulli was recognized as “Best Comic Strip” by the National Cartoonists Society

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