Faith Erin Hicks | |
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Born | British Columbia |
Area(s) | Writer, artist |
Notable works | Demonology 101 Zombies Calling The Nameless City trilogy |
Awards | Two Eisner Awards 2003 Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards 2004 Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards |
Faith Erin Hicks is a Canadian cartoonist and animator living in Vancouver, British Columbia.
She has created a number of graphic novels, both as sole creator (such as Zombies Calling! and Friends with Boys) and as a collaborator (Nothing Could Possibly Go Wrong and Buffy: The High School Years), as well as serialized works like Demonology 101 and The Adventures of Superhero Girl.
After studying animation at Sheridan College, Faith Erin Hicks came to prominence with her long-running webcomic Demonology 101 (D101). [1]
Since the beginning of Demonology 101, Hicks has completed a spinoff of the D101 character Sachs entitled A Distant Faith. [2] She also created a zombie-movie inspired comic called Zombies Calling , [3] [4] as well as the dystopian comic Ice (originally published on Modern Tales). [5]
She drew backgrounds for the George of the Jungle animated series [4] and created Jenny’s Brothers, a comic strip to the Halifax Chronicle-Herald . [6] Her original comic series The Adventures of Superhero Girl ran weekly in Halifax's local free paper, The Coast, as well as on her own website. and was collected into a book by Dark Horse Comics. [7]
Her graphic novel Friends with Boys was published in February 2012 from First Second. She was also the illustrator and co-writer for the graphic novel The Last of Us: American Dreams , along with Neil Druckmann.
On January 30, 2014, it was announced that Hicks would illustrate the first of two graphic novels written by young adult author Rainbow Rowell. [8] This book would be published as Pumpkinheads on August 27, 2019. [9]
On October 26, 2020, Hicks announced she was working on Ride On, her upcoming graphic novel, to be published by First Second. [10]
Hicks has won two Eisner Awards. In 2014, she won for Best Publication for Kids for The Adventures of Superhero Girl. [11] Then in 2019 Eisner Award for Best Publication for Kids (ages 9–12) for The Nameless City: The Divided Earth. [12]
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