Tula Lotay Last updated July 28, 2025 Biography Lotay grew up in Batley , West Yorkshire. [ 6] She was adopted[ citation needed ] when she was a young child and had dyslexia . [ 6] She attended Dewsbury College and the University of Bradford . [ 6]
In 2007, while an employee of the local comics and board game retailer Travelling Man, [ 7] she founded the annual Thought Bubble Festival to promote comic books to the general public, especially children with reading difficulties. [ 5] [ 6] Before becoming a comics artist, she was on the British Comic Awards Committee but resigned in 2013 to pursue a full-time art career.[ citation needed ]
Her first work was the cover art for Elephantmen No. 5 (2012), and in American Vampire : Anthology No. 1 (2013). She has also contributed to Red Sonja . [ 2]
Lotay at WonderCon 2022 She illustrated issue No. 13 of The Wicked + The Divine , which was published in 2015 [ 2] and nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book. [ 8]
Lotay and her Supreme collaborator Warren Ellis announced in 2015 that they were working on a new comic, Heartless . As of early 2018, Heartless has yet to be released, but work was in progress. [ 9]
In early 2022, Lotay stepped down as manager of the Thought Bubble Festival to concentrate on her art career and family. [ 7]
Awards In 2019, in recognition for her work in creating the Thought Bubble Festival , Lotay was awarded the Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award [ 10] [ 11] at San Diego Comic-Con 's Eisner Awards . Upon receiving the award, Lotay said:
"It's such an honour to be awarded the Bob Clampett Award by Comic-Con International. Although given in my name, this award is really for everyone who works tirelessly to make Thought Bubble what it is; a lot of whom are volunteers, who work so hard for the love of the medium of comics. I feel I'm accepting this award on behalf of them. For Clark, Martha, Bis, Amy, Steve, Pete, Nabil, Mikey, Chloe and Billie, and the hundreds of volunteers, exhibitors and guests who've supported us over the years and helped make the show what it is. We are so excited to continue our outreach programme and make it bigger and better than ever." [ 12]
In 2023, Lotay won the Eisner Award for Best Digital Comic for her work on Barnstormers: A Ballad of Love and Murder with writer Scott Snyder .
In 2024, Lotay won the Eisner Award for Best New Series [ 13] for her work with Becky Cloonan on Somna: A Bed Time Story published by DSTLRY .
Bibliography Interior art DC Comics/Vertigo ComicsAll Star Batman No. 7 (2017) American Vampire : Anthology No. 1 (2013)Bodies #1–8 (2014)The Witching Hour: One Shot (2013)Dynamite Entertainment Legends of Red Sonja #3 (2014)Image Comics Elephantmen #45 (2012)Supreme: Blue Rose #1–7 (2014)Thought Bubble Anthology #1: The Hound (2011)Thought Bubble Anthology #2: A Significant Portraiture (2012) The Wicked + The Divine No. 13 (2015)Zero No. 18 (2015)Comixology Originals Barnstormers: A Ballad of Love and Murder #1-5 (2022–2023)Cover art Archie Comics Archie: Volume 2 #17C (2017)Betty & Veronica #1O (2016)Josie and the Pussycats #2C (2016)Jughead: Volume 3 #12C Boom! StudiosCurb Stomp #1A (2015)Fiction #1C (2015)Grass Kings #4B (2017)Joyride #1B (2016)Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #3E (2016)Dark Horse Comics Briggs Land #1–6 (2016)Briggs Land #3B NYCC Exclusive (2016)Rebels #1–10 (2015 -2016)Tomb Raider:Volume 3 #7–12 (2016–2017)Night of the Ghoul #1B (2022)Barnstormers: A Ballad of Love and Murder #1–3 (2023)Darryl Makes Comics DMC #1.5 Thought Bubble 2nd Print Variant (2015) DC Comics/VertigoAll Star Batman #7A, #7C (2017)Black Canary: Volume 4 #1B (2015)Everafter: From the pages of Fables #1–10 (2016–17)Hellblazer #11 – 12A (2017)Shade the Changing Girl #1BSlash and Burn #1–6 (2015 -2016)The Wildstorm #1B (2017)Dynamite Entertainment Blackcross #1B, #2A-6A Regular Covers (2015)Blackcross #1M, #2E-6E Virgin Art Covers (2015)Dejah Thoris #1C (2016)James Bond: Moneypenny #1A (2017)Miss Fury #1A-5A Regular Covers (2016)Miss Fury #1E-2E Virgin Art Covers (2016)Red Sonja: Volume 3 #1C (2016)Swords of Sorrow #1F, 2A-6A Regular Covers (2015)Swords of Sorrow #1Q, 2D-6D Virgin Art Covers (2015)Vampirella: Volume 4 #1C (2016)Great Beast Blood Blokes #3 Rear Cover (2013)IDW Publishing Archangel #1–5 (2016–2017)Jem and the Holograms #7C (2015)Image Comics Codename Baboushka: Conclave of Death #1BElephantmen #29 Flip Cover (2010), #54 (2013)Intersect #3BSouthern Cross #1C Ghost Variant (2016)Supreme: Blue Rose #1–7 (2014)Supreme: Blue Rose #1 Travelling Man Exclusive (2014)Supreme: Blue Rose #1 SDCC Exclusive (2014)Wayward #14B (2016)The Wicked +The Divine #13B (2015)Zero #18A (2015)Independent North Bend #1B (2016) - Kickstarter ProjectGirl With No Name (2019) [ 14] Legion M Marvel Comics The Amazing Spider-Man: Volume 4 #9E Women of Power Variant (2016)Black Widow: Volume 7 #1C (2016)Captain America: Sam Wilson #12B (2016)Civil War II: Choosing Sides #6B (2016)Gamora #1E (2016)Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 4 #16C (2017)Star Wars: Han Solo #2C (2016)Vision: Volume 3 #2C (2015)Titan Books Penny Dreadful #4A (2016)Vikings #1E Fried Pie Variant (2016)World War Tank Girl #2C (2017)Valiant Comics 4001 A.D. #1B-4B (2016)Bloodshot Reborn #10E, #11D, #12D, #13C (2016)Divinity II #2D, #4D (2016)Faith: Volume 2 #2F (2016)References ↑ . Image Comics https://imagecomics.com/creators/view/tula-lotay . Retrieved 27 March 2017 . 1 2 3 Kross, Karin L. (17 July 2015). " "Working in a Cupboard" — An Interview with Comic Artist Tula Lotay" . Tor.com . Retrieved 27 March 2017 . ↑ Wood, Lilith (5 March 2015). "State of the Art: Tula Lotay on Communicating Emotion and Confusion in Supreme: Blue Rose" . Paste Magazine . Retrieved 27 March 2017 . ↑ "Thought Bubble: Thousands of people in Leeds attend UK's largest comic book festival" . Yorkshire Evening Post . Retrieved 17 October 2013 . 1 2 "Leeds comic book queen is picture perfect" . Yorkshire Evening Post . 14 August 2014. Retrieved 27 March 2017 . 1 2 3 4 Freeman, Sarah. "Bubble rap: How comic books changed our lives: Struggling to read as a child, Lisa Wood found escape through comic books. Now an artist, she tells Sarah Freeman about the Thought Bubble festival which is devoted to comic art," The Yorkshire Post (16 November 2014). 1 2 Lomax, Claire. "Ilkley comic artist Tula Lotay steps down from Thought Bubble convention," The Telegraph and Argus (3 Feb. 2022). ↑ "Outstanding Comic Book" . GLAAD Media Awards . Retrieved 27 March 2017 . ↑ "The Image Comics Expo Announcements That Went Missing In Action, Lost And Found..." Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movie, TV News . 13 May 2016. Retrieved 19 February 2017 . ↑ "Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award" . 5 December 2012. Archived from the original on 24 March 2023. Retrieved 6 August 2019 . ↑ "Newsarama | GamesRadar+" . 24 November 2023. Archived from the original on 24 May 2019. ↑ "Thought Bubble Founder, Lisa Wood, honoured with Humanitarian Award" . 31 May 2019. ↑ Puc, Samantha (26 July 2024). "SDCC '24: Announcing the 2024 Eisner Award winners" . Comics Beat . ↑ "Female Western 'Girl With No Name' in the Works" . The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 6 October 2018 . External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to
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