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Kevin Bartelme

Kevin Bartelme
Born	1948
Died	2024 (Age 75) New York City
Occupation	Fiction writer, film screenwriter

Kevin Bartelme (1948-2024) was an American fiction writer, film screenwriter, cartoonist and painter. In both literary and artistic fields, Bartelme's humorous works edge towards satire.

Novels

O'Rourk another slop sink chronicle (2002)

The Great Wall of New York (2006)

The Great Red stone (2009)

The Instituto (2012)

Reich (2012)

Ain’t Life Swell (2018)

The Tin Hat (2019)

A Chart Too Far (2019)

Big Me (2020)

Twofer (2022)

Collection of Short Stories

Let Them Eat . . . Rubbish (2013)

Dreaming of Hokusai (2019)

Boku no Naka no Baka-Jin (2020) is Japanese translation of Dreaming Hokusai

The Phrenal Colony (2023)

Film Screenplays

Co-wrote the screenplay with director Robert Taicher for featuer film Inside Out (1986 film), an American drama about agoraphobia starring Elliott Gould, Haward Hesseman and Jennifer Tilly. Released 1987 Chicago Film Festival.

Original screenplay entitled Acting School for John Sheinberg, Lee Rich, Los Angels (1986)

Original screenplay entitled Babyface for Bill Teitler, Joel Silver, Los Angels (1987)

Story consultant for screenwriters of the film Eversmile, New Jersey, American-British comedy drama film, director Carlos Sorin and starring Daniel Day-Lewis(1989)

Original screenplay with commissioned rewrite entitled The Mummy of Canal Steet for Elliot Kastner, NYC (1989)

Co-wrote the screenplay for the feature film Dreamland (Released in 1996), an ironic fairy tale, director Susi Graf and starring Lisa Lawley, Zoë Lund and Eric Mitchell. (1994)

Original screenplay entitled Dead Already co-written with Michael Kasino, NYC (1995)

Original screenplay entitled Ayn and Nate NYC (2002)

Original screenplay entitled The Hide Behind for Kasino Prod., NYC (2004)

Commissioned screenplay entitled Transgression for Lech Kowalski, Paris (2007)

Original screenplay entitled Shumatsu co-written with Steve Monroe, NYC (2013)

Original story Fogmade into the short film Fog by Sebastian Piras, NYC (2012)

Original story Escape made into the short film Happy Hours by Michael Kasino, NYC (2016)

Early Life in San Francisco =

Kevin Bartelme was born as the oldest of the three children of Kenwood Bartelme and Em-Marie Bartelme. His father was a professor at San Francisco States University for over 40 years and his mother was a painter. Kevin's two siblings are Scott Bartelme and Jane Bartelme. He won the Junior Art competition of San Francisco Chronicle seven times when he was 6-7 years old. He studied Art and English at University of California, Berkeley. As a teenage, he was organizing an anti war protests. At an early age, deeply committed to exposing the corruption and hypocrisy he observed in the world he cultivated his wit and humor to expose the truth in the stories for all to see.

Life in New York City

Moving to New York City from San Francisco when Bartelme was 23 years old, he studied film at New York University and at State University of New York taking his Master’s degree in Communication Theory. He lived in SoHo where he continued his creative activities, writing film screenplays and novels including his first novel O'Rourke he chronicles the hilarious escapades and misadventures of a pair of tile setters. At his favorite watering hole Fanelli Café in SoHo, he met Stewart Hitch, Gorge Kokines and many other artists. The people and hustle and bustle of New York inspired him to write many works.

Life in Mexico and Japan

Since 2012, Bartelme had expanded the base of his works by living in not only New York but also Mexico and Japan. The novel Instituto (2012) is the story about the art institution in Mexico City. Bartelme traveled around Japan and wrote Dreaming of Hokusai in 2019. Somewhat like Katsushika Hokusai, who walked around all over the place and made drawings of the people's everyday lives, Bartelme was inspired by peoples encountered during his travels. Dreaming Hokusai is a collection of short stories and translated into Japanese as 僕の中のバカジン Boku no Naka no Baka-jin (The Fool Inside of Me). The novel Ain't Life Swell (2018) is a generational family saga was written in response to the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011. The film screenplay Shumatus is co-written with Steve Monroe in 2013, a romantic farce set in Tokyo one year after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

Paintings and Drawings

Kevin Barthelmes' novels are filled with many unique characters, and his paintings often feature unique characters as well.

Greenmen by Kevin Bartelme

Pipe Dream