Tillie Walden

Tillie Walden
Born 1996 (age 21–22)
Occupation Cartoonist, author
Residence Austin, Texas
Nationality American
Education Center for Cartoon Studies
Genre Graphic novel
Notable works Spinning
Notable awards
Website
tilliewalden.com

Tillie Walden (born 1996)[1] is an American cartoonist who has published four graphic novels and a webcomic.[2] Walden won the 2018 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work for her graphic novel Spinning, making her one of the youngest Eisner Award winners ever.

Early life

Tillie Walden grew up in New Jersey and Austin, Texas. She was a competitive ice skater.[3] Walden is named after her paternal grandmother, an artist who died before Walden was born. Walden's first comic was a black-and-white comic "about never knowing her [grandmother] but following in her footsteps." Walden began putting her comics and drawings on her website, and was discovered while still in high school by British publisher Avery Hill Publishing, who worked with Walden to publish her first graphic novel, The End of Summer.[4]

Career

Walden's debut graphic novel, The End of Summer, was published by Avery Hill in June 2015. It is told from the viewpoint of Lars, a feeble boy who lives in a fantastical palace and has a giant cat named Nemo.[4] Walden won the 2016 Ignatz Award for outstanding artist for The End of Summer.[5] Her second graphic novel, I Love This Part, was published by Avery Hill in November 2015 and tells the story of two teenage girls who fall in love.[4] Walden won the 2016 Ignatz Award for promising new talent for I Love This Part.[5] The novel was also nominated for the 2016 Eisner Award for Best Single Issue/One-Shot.[6] Walden's third graphic novel, A City Inside, was published by Avery Hill in 2016.[7] It won the 2016 Broken Frontier Award for Best One-Shot.[8]

Spinning, Walden's first graphic novel memoir about her years coming-of-age as a competitive ice skater, was published by First Second Books in September 2017.[9] It won the 2018 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work, making Walden one of the youngest Eisner Award winners ever at 22.[10] Walden has also published On a Sunbeam, a science fiction webcomic[1] that was nominated for the 2017 Eisner Award for Best Digital Comic.[11] The webcomic has been adapted into a graphic novel[1] and will be released in October 2018 by First Second Books.[12] To commemorate International Women's Day, Walden's piece "Minutes" was featured as a Google Doodle on March 8, 2018.[13]

Personal life

Walden knew she was a lesbian since she was 5.[9][14] Before she came out, Walden avoided including queer characters in her stories, feeling that she "couldn't draw openly gay characters if [she] was still scared to be openly gay".[4]

Walden is a graduate of the Center for Cartoon Studies.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "The Next Frontier: Tillie Walden's Webcomic On a Sunbeam Will Be Adapted to a Graphic Novel". Bookish. October 2, 2017.
  2. ↑ Micheline, JA (September 19, 2017). "Tillie Walden: young graphic novelist breaks the ice with memoir Spinning". The Guardian.
  3. ↑ Wong, Alex (October 4, 2017). ""Everything I Had to Say about My Life Is in That Book": An Interview with Tillie Walden". The Comics Journal.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Landsbaum, Claire (November 16, 2015). "Tillie Walden on the Queer Characters and Emotional Turmoil of Her New Comic, I Love This Part". Vulture.com.
  5. 1 2 Cavna, Michael (September 18, 2016). "Small Press Expo: Here are your 2016 Ignatz Award winners, including new talent Tillie Walden". The Washington Post.
  6. ↑ Cavna, Michael (April 19, 2016). "2016 Eisner Awards: 'The Oscars of comics' announces record number of nominations for women". The Washington Post.
  7. ↑ "Comics Book Review: A City Inside by Tillie Walden". Publishers Weekly. July 25, 2016.
  8. ↑ Russell, Ally (June 12, 2017). "A City Inside – Tillie Walden Secures Her Place as One of the Leading Voices in Comics Today". Broken Frontier.
  9. 1 2 "Spinning - Kirkus Review". Kirkus Reviews. July 17, 2017. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
  10. ↑ Cavna, Michael (July 23, 2018). "Women make history, and receive overdue recognition, at 2018 Eisner Awards". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 5, 2018.
  11. ↑ Schedeen, Jesse (May 2, 2017). "THE 2017 EISNER AWARD NOMINEES REVEALED". IGN.
  12. ↑ "Kirkus Review: On a Sunbeam". Kirkus Reviews. August 20, 2018. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
  13. ↑ Mejia, Zameena (March 7, 2018). "Here's how Google is celebrating International Women's Day this year". CNBC. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
  14. ↑ Carr, Jan. "Spinning - Book review". Common Sense Media. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
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