Dime Stories

Featuring a foreword by Thomas Dyja, the sixty essays and corresponding full-color artwork in Tony Fitzpatrick'sDime Stories celebrate a life spent passionately devouring stories. Originally published in Chicago'sNewcity magazine, Fitzpatrick covers bird watching, tattoos, politics, and creating museum-collected art in the controversial style his lifelong fans have come to expect.

Tony Fitzpatrick is a Chicago-based artist best known for his multimedia collages, printmaking, paintings, and drawings. Fitzpatrick’s works are inspired by Chicago street culture, cities he has traveled to, children’s books, tattoo designs, and folk art. Fitzpatrick has authored or illustrated eight books of art and poetry, and, for the last two years, has written a column forNewcity. Fitzpatrick’s art appears in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the National Museum of American Art in Washington DC. The Neville Brothers’ albumYellow Moon and Steve Earle’s albums El Corazon and The Revolution Starts Now also feature Fitzpatrick’s art. In 1992, Fitzpatrick opened a Chicago-based printmaking studio, Big Cat Press, which exists today as the artist exhibition space Firecat Projects. Before making a living as an artist, Fitzpatrick worked as a radio host, bartender, boxer, construction worker, and film and stage actor.