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Phillip Kennedy Johnson is an Eisner-nominated writer and musician living in the Washington, DC/Baltimore region. His comics work has been published by DC, Marvel, BOOM! Studios, Archaia, IDW, Aftershock, and Scout Comics. He is the creator of comic series The Last God from DC Black Label, Last Sons of America (currently in development at Netflix), Warlords of Appalachia, Smoketown, and many more.

Outside of writing, Johnson has a full-time career as a soldier, trumpet player, composer, arranger, and teacher. As a Sergeant First Class in the United States Army, he regularly tours the continental United States with The U.S. Army Field Band and the Federal Brass of Washington, DC. Prior to joining the Army Field Band, he toured the world with the Glenn Miller Orchestra from 2004-2005, and has performed with the Moscow Ballet, the Dallas Opera, Washington Symphonic Brass, the Lexington Philharmonic, and the Benny Goodman Orchestra.

Johnson is a devoted lover of American art forms, especially jazz, comic books, and mixed martial arts. He will fight anyone w

Philip Johnson

American architect (1906–2005)

For other people named similarly, see Phillip Johnson (disambiguation).

Philip Johnson

Johnson aged 95, with a model of a privately commissioned sculpture (2002)

Born

Philip Cortelyou Johnson


(1906-07-08)July 8, 1906

Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.

DiedJanuary 25, 2005(2005-01-25) (aged 98)

New Canaan, Connecticut, U.S.

Alma materHarvard Graduate School of Design
OccupationArchitect
AwardsPritzker Prize (1979)
AIA Gold Medal (1978)
PracticeJohnson/Burgee Architects (established 1967)
BuildingsGlass House, Seagram Building's 2 restaurants, 550 Madison Avenue, IDS Tower, PPG Place, Crystal Cathedral

Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an American architect who designed modern and postmodern architecture. Among his best-known designs are his modernist Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut; the postmodern 550 Madison Avenue in New York City, designed for AT&T; 190 South La Salle Street in Chicago; IDS Tower in downtown Minneapolis; the Sculptur

Philip C. Johnson

What were you like as a young man in Ohio?

Philip Johnson: A twerp. I was a spoiled brat. I was insufferable, very unpopular at school, very unpopular with the girls. Couldn’t dance, couldn’t mix. I was a loner and family practically gave up on me, wanted to give up on myself. You know the usual, “Oh goodness, what good am I?” bit, that every young person goes through, but I thought it naturally was unique and that I alone suffered. I read books on suffering, The Sorrows of Werther and so on. I was a lousy kid. It was when architecture hit me that I became more sensible.

What kind of a student were you?

Philip Johnson: Good. Amazing. I was a patchy student. Sometimes I couldn’t do something like write. That was a writer’s block kind of thing, exaggerated up to a disease. So I flunked everything to do with writing or any expression in writing. Of course, it seems funny later that I did produce a book or two, but at that time, it was an unbelievable hurdle. There were no psychiatrists in those days, so I finally went to

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