Sarah Graley

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Sarah Graley
Sarah Graley Book Signing 2019.jpg
Graley at a book signing event in 2019
BornSarah Graley
(1991-10-03) 3 October 1991 (age 32)
Northampton, England
NationalityBritish
Area(s) Cartoonist, Writer, Artist
Notable works
  • Our Super Adventure
  • Glitch
  • Kim Reaper
Spouse(s)Stef Purenins
official website

Sarah Graley (born 3 October 1991) is a British cartoonist, best known for the ongoing webcomic, Our Super Adventure, and the Kim Reaper comic series. However, they are also known as one part of the band duo Sonic the Comic; they also livestream on their twitch channel named after their webcomic "our super adventure". They also have a podcast which is named after a twist on their webcomic "Our Super Podcast".

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Career

Graley graduated from the University of Wolverhampton with a BA (Hons) in Visual Communication (Illustration). [1] During their studies, Graley started the webcomic series Our Super Adventure and self-published three small printed collections of comic strips between 2013 and 2015.

In 2012, Graley and their partner Stef Purenins formed a band of which they named Sonic the Comic, after the UK's official Sega comic of the 1990s. [2] The band is still together and their last album, "Stabatha EP", was released in July 2016. Since the bands formation they have released many albums and singles, of which four are still available on the bands website. [3] The bands albums where only ever released physically in an extremely limited quantity however can still be bought digitally at a "pay as you feel" price. The bands four available albums where titled: Pixel (November 1, 2013) [4] Reveries EP, (August 5, 2014) [5] Atoms, (May 4, 2015) [6] Stabatha EP (July 4, 2016) [7] and where usually in a pop-punk style.

In 2015, Graley ran a Kickstarter project for a hardcover collection of 200 Our Super Adventure comics. [8] It raised 450% of its goal. [9] they self-published a shorter travelogue comic collection called Our Super American Adventure in 2017.

Their first published work was the Oni Press miniseries Rick and Morty: Lil' Poopy Superstar (2016), a five-issue spin-off of the main Rick and Morty comic book series, of which Graley was the writer and illustrator. [10]

Graley's original series Kim Reaper was released by Oni Press in 2017. [11]

Their first middle grade novel Glitch was released by Scholastic Graphix in 2019. [12] [13]

They were the artist on the first official Minecraft graphic novel, Minecraft Vol. 1, which was published by Dark Horse Comics in 2019. [14]

Their second middle grade novel Donut the Destroyer released in 2020 by Scholastic Graphix. [15]

Awards

Bibliography

Graphic novels

Comic collections

Comic books

Other publications

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