| Ngozi Ukazu | |
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 Ukazu at the 2024 Texas Book Festival. | |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist, Writer |
Notable works | Check, Please! |
| Awards | "Digital Book of the Year" Harvey Award (2019) "Outstanding Comic" Ignatz Award (2019) |
| http://www.ngoziu.com | |
Ngozi Ukazu is an American cartoonist and graphic novelist. In 2013, she created the webcomic Check, Please!, which later became a New York Times-bestselling graphic novel.
Ngozi Ukazu grew up in Houston, Texas. [1] [2] She attended Bellaire High School, where she contributed to the school’s newspaper, The Three Penny Press, as the comics editor. She is the daughter of Nigerian parents. [2] She studied computer science, obtaining a degree in Computing and The Arts from Yale University in 2013 [3] and earned a masters degree in Sequential Art from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2015. [4]
Ukazu launched Check, Please! as a webcomic in 2013 after writing a screenplay about Eric "Bitty" Bittle, a gay college freshman and champion figure skater who joins a hockey team. [5] [6]
Ukazu created a Kickstarter campaign in 2015 to print the first volume of the comic; the campaign resulted in the highest-funded comics project in Kickstarter's history. [7] In 2018, the first installment, Check, Please!: #Hockey, was published by First Second Books. [1] The sequel, Check, Please!: Sticks & Scones, was a New York Times bestseller in May 2020. [8]
For DC Comics she created the graphic novel Barda in 2024, both writing and illustrating. [9]
Her latest graphic novel, Flip, is to be published in Fall 2025. [10]
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