Jon Allen
Jon Allen studied painting and illustration and has been drawing comics since 2009. He has exhibited his work at comics festivals for over a decade, including SPX, MICE, MoCCA, TCAF, CAB, and more. He makes a living as a UX designer in Brooklyn, New York.
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https://www.ohioisforsale.com/
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Matthew Allison
Mattew Allison has been self-publishing his comics Cankor and Sweet Sepulcher since 2012. He has also illustrated stories for Heavy Metal and Creepy as well as pin-ups for The Humans, Copra, Bloodstrike and Sabertooth Swordsman. Recently, he illustrated a variant cover for The Saga of Swamp Thing that was also used for a Mondo poster.
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https://matthewallison.bigcartel.com/
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Ryan Andrews
Ryan Andrews lives in the Japanese countryside, with his wife, two kids, their dog, and a few noisy chickens. A friendly Kodama or two have been known to take up residence in the giant acorn tree that shades the house. He works at his drawing desk in the early morning hours, often to the sound of rummaging wild boar and badgers, who come from the surrounding forest seeking out shiitake mushrooms and fallen chestnuts.
His online comics Sarah and The Seed and Our Bloodstained Roof have both been nominated for Eisner Awards in the Best Digital Comic category. His graphic novel This Was Our Pact has also received an Eisner nomination.
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Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel’s comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For became a countercultural institution among lesbians and discerning non-lesbians all over the planet. And her more recent, darkly humorous graphic memoirs about her family have forged an unlikely intimacy with an even wider range of readers.
Bechdel self-syndicated Dykes to Watch Out For for twenty-five years, from 1983 to 2008. The award-winning generational chronicle has been called “one of the pre-eminent oeuvres in the comics genre, period.” (Ms. magazine)
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In 2006 she published Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. Time magazine named it the Best Book of 2006. It was adapted into a musical by the playwright Lisa Kron and the composer Jeanine Tesori. It opened on Broadway at the Circle in the Square Theater on April 19, 2015, and won five Tony Awards, including “Best Musical.”
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In her work, Bechdel is preoccupied with the overlap of the political and the personal spheres, the relationship of the self to the world outside. Her 2012 memoir Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama delved into not just her relationship with her own mother, but the theories of the 20th century British psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott. Her most recent book, The Secret to Superhuman Strength (May 2021), continues her investigation of the relationship between inside and outside, in this case the outside where she skis, bikes, hikes, and wanders in pursuit of fitness and, incidentally, self-transcendence.
Alison’s comics have appeared in The New Yorker, Slate, McSweeney’s, The New York Times Book Review, and Granta. She has been awarded Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships. She lives up a hill in Vermont.
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https://dykestowatchoutfor.com/
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Remy Boydell
Remy Boydell is a comic book professional whose early works include Tender Objects, Victim Pheromone, Death Paradise, and Recovery Blogger. Boydell’s debut graphic novel THE PERVERT was featured prominently in the award-winning comics magazine ISLAND. Their solo debut graphic novel 920London was published through Image Comics in 2020.
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Caroline Cash
Caroline Cash is an Eisner Award winning cartoonist. Her debut graphic novel Girl in The World was published by Silver Sprocket in 2019, and she has since become well known for her solo anthology series Peepee Poopoo, also published through Silver Sprocket. She is currently working on a full-length graphic novel to be published with Drawn & Quarterly.
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Shawn Daley
Shawn Daley is a two-time Ringo Award winning cartoonist, and has been working in comics full time for about ten years. Shawn has released books and stories with IDW (Better Place, CANTO, TMNT) and has been self-publishing (ILLÜMON, Samurai Grandpa, Lost Souls, TerraQuill, Bridgebuilder’s Creed) for about eight years.
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A.C. Esguerra
A.C. Esguerra (a.k.a. blueludebar) is an award-winning cartoonist and illustrator who works in a bold, intricate ink and watercolor style. Their storytelling blends history and fantasy while centering people of color and queer characters and perspectives.
Their first book was Eighty Days, an original graphic novel about pilots, romance and rebellion in an alternate-1930s. Their next comics were Amelia Earhart (written by Melanie Gillman) and the City of Poets public art series. They have exhibited their work internationally and spoken on panels at San Diego Comic-Con, Toronto Comic Arts Festival and West Hollywood Pride.
Born in Manila, Philippines, they now live in Los Angeles with their partner and pets.

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Leo Fox
Leo Fox is a UK-based award winning cartoonist and painter. He is best known for his books published by Silver Sprocket: Procaryote Season, My Body Unspooling, and Boy Island.
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Charles Glaubitz
Charles Glaubitz is an illustrator and designer who currently lives in Tijuana, Mexico. His work has been displayed in several museums, including the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, Museo Carrillo Gil Mexico City, and the Museo de Arte Zapopan. Illustration clients include Rolling Stone, Nickelodeon magazine, and many more.
His debut graphic novel, Starseeds, was published by Fantagraphics in 2017. Fantagraphics has since published Starseeds 2 and Starseeds 3.
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Maria Capelle Frantz
Maria Capelle Frantz is a cartoonist and illustrator based out of Portland, Oregon. Her debut graphic novel, The Chancellor and The Citadel, was published by Iron Circus Comics in 2019. Her most recent book, Who Was the Girl Warrior of France?: Joan of Arc was published in 2021 as part of a series of comics released by WhoHQ. She is currently working on her third graphic novel, Megrez, to be published by Harper Alley.
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Alex Graham
Alex Graham is an award winning painter and cartoonist from Denver, Colorado, currently residing in Seattle. Her graphic novel Dog Biscuits was published by Fantagraphics in 2022, as well as her most recent book The Devil’s Grin: Book One .
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https://www.alexngraham.com/index.html
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Nicole Goux
Nicole Goux (she/her) is an Eisner Award nominated illustrator and cartoonist from Los Angeles. She's the artist of DC's Shadow of the Batgirl and co-creator of Fuck Off Squad at Silver Sprocket. Her other books include Everyone Is Tulip, Forest Hills Bootleg Society, and Pet Peeves. She has been published by DC, Dark Horse, IDW, and Oni. Her work often explores the themes of coming of age, interpersonal drama, and learning how to be a human.
Broken Frontier Awards 2023: Best Artist
Society of Illustrators LA Silver Medalist
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M.S. Harkness
M.S. Harkness is an American cartoonist known for her graphic memoirs Time Under Tension (Fantagraphics, 2023) Desperate Pleasures (Uncivilized, 2020) and Tinderella (Kilgore Books, 2018) and various self-published mini-comics. Her cartooning is rendered in stark black & white, tending toward forceful graphics that blend contemporary animation and traditional cartooning styles.
Born in Carney, Oklahoma, Harkness currently resides in Columbus, Ohio where she occasionally teaches at the Columbus College of Art & Design. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Comics from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2017, studying under Kevin Huizenga. A weightlifter for many years, Harkness is also an NASM CPT and works part-time as a Personal Trainer.
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Sam Grinberg​​​
Sam Grinberg is a cartoonist originally from New Jersey now based in Los Angeles. He is currently working as a character designer on The Simpsons while also working on various illustration & comic projects. He creates and publishes his own comics, zines, stickers, and prints, and exhibits at festivals around the country. He also creates artwork & flyers for bands and venues. His most recent self-published work is Scumburbia: Mega Sized Mall Issue.
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Kevin Huizenga
Kevin Huizenga (HIGH zing guh) grew up in a suburb of Chicago, South Holland, which is a small town of Dutch immigrants. He is the son of an accountant and a nurse. In high school he started reading minicomics and quit playing baseball. He attended Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he started drawing the influential mini-comic Supermonster.
He moved to St. Louis where he drew the comic book series Or Else as well as the strip Leon Beyond with Dan Zettwoch. Eventually, he also created his series Ganges. Huizenga taught in the Comic Art program at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design from 2015-2019, and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2023.
His graphic novels include The River at Night, Curses, The Wild Kingdom, and Gloriana. His work has been translated into six languages, including Dutch; he won five Ignatz awards and has been nominated for Harvey and Eisner awards.
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https://www.kevinhuizenga.com/
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Jonathan Hill
Jonathan Hill is an award-winning cartoonist, illustrator, and educator living in Portland, OR.
He graduated in 2003 as valedictorian of the Savannah College of Art & Design with a degree in Sequential Art. Some of his graphic novels include Science Comics: Wild Weather, Odessa, Tales of a Seventh-Grade Lizard Boy, and Lizard Boy 2: The Most Perfect Summer Ever.
His books have been published by First Second, Oni Press, and is currently working on books for Walker Books US. His books have been featured at ABC New Voices, YALSA and JLG selections, and won awards - Americus won the 2012 Carla Cohen Free Speech Award and Odessa won the 2021 Believer Book Award for Graphic Literature.
Jonathan also teaches comics and visual narrative. He was an associate professor in the Illustration Department at the Pacific Northwest College of Art for just shy of a decade, building the comics curriculum from the ground up, taught comics and illustration classes for youth programs at the Oregon College of Art and Craft, and was Writer in Residence through Literary Arts' Writers in the Schools program. He currently serves as vice-chair on the Board of Directors of Literary Arts also frequently partners with OK You on projects.
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https://www.oneofthejohns.com/
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Emma Hunsinger
Emma Hunsinger is a cartoonist from Connecticut. She started her career making New Yorker gags before getting her MFA at the Center for Cartoon Studies. Her short comic "How To Draw a Horse" appeared in pages of the New Yorker and was nominated for an Eisner.
Her recent books include My Parents Won’t Stop Talking! (which she co-created with her wife Tillie Walden) and How It All Ends released in 2024 with Greenwillow Books.
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https://www.emmahunsinger.com/
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Lee Lai
Lee Lai is an Australian cartoonist living in Tio’tia:ke (colonially known as Montreal, Canada). In 2021, she was selected as one of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 for her debut graphic novel, Stone Fruit, which went on to win several awards, including the Lambda Literary Award for Graphic Novel, the Cartoonist Studio Prize, the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize, and two Ignatz Awards. Her comics have appeared on the New Yorker, McSweeney’s, The New York Times, Granta Magazine, and the Museum of Modern Art Magazine. Her newest graphic novel, Cannon, will be published by Drawn & Quarterly in 2025.
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Alex Krokus
Alex Krokus is a cartoonist working in comics and animation. The collection of his webcomics, Loudest & Smartest was released by Silver Sprocket in 2022 and his upcoming debut graphic novel, Talking to My Father’s Ghost will be published by Chronicle Books in 2025.
His comic work can be found on VICE, Buzzfeed and The New York Times.
Alex has also directed animation work for clients including 23&Me, Skittles and the FDA.
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Trung Le Nguyen
Trung Le Capecchi-Nguyen (Trung Le Nguyen, professionally) is an award-winning Vietnamese American cartoonist, artist, and writer from Minnesota.
Trung’s first original graphic novel, The Magic Fish, was published in 2020 through Random House Graphic, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
He has also contributed work both as an author and as an artist for a variety of comics publishers, including DC Comics, Oni Press, Boom! Studios, Image Comics, and Marvel.
Trung has been nominated for an Eisner, a prize at Angoulême (France), a GLAAD award, and has won two Harvey Awards and a Romics (Italy). Trung has also contributed work for DC Comics, Oni Press, Boom! Studios, Image Comics, and Marvel.
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Tom Manning
Tom Manning is a graphic novelist and designer based in Oakland, CA.
Tom has written, illustrated, and lettered graphic novels for over 20 years. His works include the critically acclaimed books Bering Strait (2020), Eric (2018), and Runoff (2015).
He has collaborated as a writer, illustrator, and designer on a number of books including Eating Animals with Jonathan Safran Foer, and When It Rains, It Pours with Jan Chipchase; and art directed such magazines as Filter, Mean, and frog design’s Design Mind.
Tom has taught at Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, CCA’s graphic design undergraduate program, and CCA’s graduate design research program.
Manning has a BFA in Art History and the Visual Arts from Occidental College and an MFA in Graphic Design from the Yale School of Art.
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Rosemary Valero-O'Connell
Rosemary Valero-O’Connell is a cartoonist and illustrator born in Minneapolis, raised in Zaragoza, and currently residing in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BFA in Comic Art from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2016, and has been making comics full time ever since. Her work has received 2 Eisner awards, 4 Ignatz awards (including “Outstanding Artist” two consecutive years), a Harvey, a Prism, a Society of Illustrators Gold Medal, and a Printz Honor.
Some of her best known works include Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me (2019) and Golden Record (2023).
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https://www.hirosemaryhello.com/
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Casey Nowak
Casey Nowak is a multiple Ignatz Award-winning and Eisner-nominated cartoonist best known for their popular graphic story collection Girl Town (2018). Their work focuses on the delicacy and power of human thought, mystery, identity and intimacy. They are currently writing and illustrating two different sci-fi epics, one titled Bodyseed, the other, Bravo.
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Nate Powell
Nate Powell is a National Book Award-winning cartoonist who began self-publishing comics as an Arkansas teenager in 1992.
His work includes the new graphic novel Fall Through and a comics adaptation of James Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me, as well as Save It For Later, civil rights icon John Lewis' March trilogy and its follow-up Run, viral comics essay About Face, and graphic novels Come Again, Two Dead, Any Empire, and Swallow Me Whole. He has published nonfiction comics and writing for The Washington Post, The Nib, In These Times, Scholastic magazines, Popula, Lit Hub, Booklist, CNN, and The Weather Channel.
Powell’s work has also received a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, multiple Eisner and Ignatz Awards, ALA and YALSA distinctions, the Comic-Con International Inkpot Award, and the CXC Transformative Work Award. He has discussed his work at the United Nations, as well as on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, CNN, NPR, PBS, and Free Speech TV.
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https://www.seemybrotherdance.org/
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Elizabeth Pich
Elizabeth Pich is a German-American comic artist. She writes Fungirl and co-writes War and Peas.
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https://www.elizabethpich.com/
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Conor Stechschulte
Conor Stechschulte is an artist, cartoonist, and screenwriter whose work investigates the outlines of human identity, the malleability of memory, and the unstable nature of our perceptions. He is the author most recently of the graphic novel Ultrasound, published by Fantagraphics, along with dozens of self-published comics. He adapted Ultrasound into the screenplay for a feature film directed by Rob Schroeder and released by Magnolia Films in March of 2022. He has exhibited his work internationally and published with Breakdown Press in London, Colorama Press in Berlin, Cambourakis in Paris, and Coconino Press in Rome, among others. Conor received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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https://www.conorstechschulte.com/
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J Webster Sharp
J Webster Sharp is a cartoonist and illustrator based in Yorkshire. Her comic The Scrapbook of Life and Death was published by Avery Hill Publishing in 2024.
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https://www.jwebstersharp.com/
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Noah Van Sciver
Noah Van Sciver is an Ignatz award-winning cartoonist whose work has appeared in the Best American Comics series, the Fantagraphics anthology series NOW, and Mad magazine. His many graphic novels include The Hypo, The Complete Works of Fante Bukowski, Johnny Appleseed, As A Cartoonist, and most recently Beat It, Rufus. He lives with his family in Columbia, SC.
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Mika Song
Mika Song makes children's books about sweetly funny outsiders. Henry, Like Always by Jenn Bailey and illustrated by Mika received the Schneider Family Award and a Geisel Honor from the American Library Association. Her graphic novel for early readers Donut Feed the Squirrels was nominated for an Eisner award.
She co-founded the weekly free kids comics collection Sundayhaha.com with Jen de Oliveira. She lives in Queens, NY in walking distance to all her favorite places to eat.
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K. Wroten
K Wroten is an illustrator, comics artist, and educator. They are originally from Kansas City but currently living in Brooklyn, NY.
K has several books published or in the works including Crimes (Pyrite Press, 2019) Cannonball (Uncivilized Books, 2019) Eden II (Fantagraphics, 2023) and Everyone Sux But You (Holt, 2025). They are currently working on a tarot deck project called Fool’s Wisdom which will be published by Llewellyn in 2026.
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Leslie Stein
Leslie Stein is the cartoonist of the LA Times Book Prize Award winning Present, as well as I Know You Rider, Bright-Eyed at Midnight, and the Eye of the Majestic Creature series. Her diary comics have been featured on The New Yorker, Vice, and in the Best American Comics anthology. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Sophie Yanow
Sophie Yanow is an award-winning artist and writer whose work has been published by The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Paris Review, The Nib, Drawn & Quarterly and more. Her comic The Contradictions won the Eisner Award for Best Webcomic. Her translation of Dominique Goblet’s Pretending is Lying won the Scott Moncrieff Prize for Translation from the French, and she is a MacDowell Fellow. Yanow’s work has been nominated for, among others, a Lambda Literary Award, a Publishers Triangle Award, an Ignatz Award and was longlisted for a Believer Book Award.
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Tillie Walden
Tillie  Walden  is a bestselling cartoonist and illustrator from Austin, TX. She is the creator of six graphic novels, including the Eisner award winning books  Spinning  and  Are You Listening?  She has been awarded an LA Times Book Prize as well as multiple Ignatz awards for her work. She graduated from the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont, where she now teaches. Her other books include On a Sunbeam, Tegan and Sara: Junior High, and My Parents Won’t Stop Talking! Which she co-created with her wife Emma Hunsinger.
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