History
The comic strip made its first appearance in 1992 in the Seattle-based Hype magazine.
Over the course of the years, it was also published in other printed media, such as the Spy magazine, Flagpole Magazine, the Village Voice, UTNE Reader, The Baffler, Rolling Stone, and Entertainment Weekly.
In 1994, the US rock band R.E.M. chose Fiering to create the album cover for their album titled "Monster", after lead singer Michael Stipe saw Migraine Boy in the Flagpole magazine. This ultimately resulted in Flagpole introducing Stipe and Fiering to each other, and Migraine Boy being featured in the album's inside booklet.
A year later, in 1995 a 64-page book, called "Migraine Boy's Fairweather Friends" (ISBN 0312143699, 9780312143695), was published in the US by St. Martin's Griffin, featuring an introductory text written by Stipe.
In 1996, animation studio GreenHead Media produced a series of twelve thirty-second short clips for MTV, animated by James Dean Conklin, which were aired as fillers over the duration of that year.
Later, in year 2000, a second book, titled "I Don't Love You!: The Best of Migraine Boy" (ISBN 0943151910, 9780943151915) was published by Slave Labor Graphics.
In 2001, Fiering and Conklin independently produced an animated short film called "Migraine Boy: The Bet", technically superior to those aired on MTV, which featured colored 3D graphics.
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