Stephen Tunney, professionally known as Dogbowl, is an American psychedelic rock singer, guitarist, painter, and novelist. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Parsons School of Design in 1982 and later earned a Master of Fine Arts from the City College of New York in 1991. He was a founding member of the avant-garde band King Missile, also known as Dog Fly Religion. As a solo artist, he released several albums including Tit! An Opera (1989), Cyclops Nuclear Submarine Captain (1991), and Flan (1992). He also collaborated with the musician Kramer on the albums Hot Day in Waco (1994) and Gunsmoke (1996). His subsequent solo albums include Project Success (1993), The Zeppelin Record (1998), Fantastic Carburetor Man (2001), Songs for Narcisse (2005), and Zone of Blue (2015). In addition to his musical career, Tunney wrote the surreal novels Flan (1992) and One Hundred Percent Lunar Boy (2010), the latter of which received the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Series recognition.
