Faith Erin Hicks
| Faith Erin Hicks | |
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| Nationality | Canadian |
| Area(s) | Writer, artist |
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Notable works
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Demonology 101 Zombies Calling |
| Awards | 2003 Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards 2004 Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards |
Faith Erin Hicks is a Canadian webcomic and comic artist and writer 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".
Biography
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 began work on a zombie-movie inspired comic called Zombies Calling,[3][4] as well as the dystopian comic Ice (originally published on Modern Tales).[5]
As part of her day job she has also contributed backgrounds to the George of the Jungle animated series[4] and created Jenny’s Brothers, a comic strip to the Halifax Chronicle-Herald.[6] She is currently drawing her original comic series, The Adventures of Superhero Girl, which is run weekly in Halifax's local free paper, The Coast, as well as on her own website.[7] Faith's most recently finished full-length graphic novel is Friends With Boys, which was published in February 2012 from First Second. She was also the co-writer for the graphic novel The Last of Us: American Dreams, along with Neil Druckmann.
Hicks' most recent convention attendance was the anime/video game convention, Animinitime, in Halifax, Nova Scotia; as an artist and speaker at Halifax's science fiction convention, Hal-Con, and as a special guest at New York Comic Con 2010.
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] On July 25, 2014, Hicks won the 2014 Eisner Award for Best Publication for Kids for her work on The Adventures of Superhero Girl.[9]
Bibliography
- Demonology 101 (webcomic, August 1999 - June 2004)
- Ice (webcomic, Modern Tales)
- Zombies Calling (graphic novel, Slave Labor Graphics, November 2007, ISBN 1-59362-079-9)
- The War at Ellsmere (graphic novel, Slave Labor Graphics, December 2008, ISBN 1-59362-140-X)
- Brain Camp, written by Susan Kim and Laurence Klavan (graphic novel, First Second, August 3, 2010, ISBN 1-59643-366-3)
- Friends with Boys (graphic novel, First Second Books, February 2012, ISBN 1-59643-556-9)
- Into the Woods (Bigfoot Boy), written by J. Torres (graphic novel, Kids Can Press, September 1, 2012, ISBN 1554537126)
- The Adventures of Superhero Girl (graphic novel, Dark Horse, February 2013, ISBN 978-1616550844)
- Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong, written by Prudence Shen (graphic novel, First Second, May 2013, ISBN 9781596436596)
- The Last of Us: American Dreams, written by Neil Druckmann (graphic novel, Dark Horse, November 2013, ISBN 1-61655-212-3)
- The Nameless City, Faith Erin Hicks, Color by Jordie Bellaire (graphic novel, First Second, April 2016, ISBN 9781626721562)
Awards
- 2003: Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards, for Demonology 101:
- Won "Outstanding Writing" Award
- Won "Outstanding Black and White Art" Award
- Nominated for "Outstanding Art" Award
- Nominated for "Outstanding Character Development" Award
- Nominated for "Outstanding Long Form Comic" Award
- Nominated for "Outstanding Dramatic Comic" Award
- 2004: Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards, for Demonology 101:
- Won "Outstanding Dramatic Comic" Award
- Won "Outstanding Long Form Comic" Award
- 2008, for Zombies Calling:
- Won the "Favourite Canadian Comic Book Creator - English-Language Publications" Joe Shuster Award[10]
- Nominated for the "Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Cartoonist (Writer/Artist)" Joe Shuster Award[11]
- 2014, for The Adventures of Superhero Girl:
- Won the "2014 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award - Best Publication for Kids"[12]
References
- ↑ Demonology 101 — Faith Erin Hicks, Sequential Tart
- ↑ A Distant Faith
- ↑ Zombies Calling first graphic novel for Hicks, Milton Canadian Champion, December 21, 2007
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Faith Erin Hicks on Zombies Calling, Newsarama, May 1, 2008
- ↑ The Future on Ice, January 2008, archived on the Internet Archive.
- ↑ Watch out for Jenny (cached), Halifax Chronicle-Herald, April 12, 2008.
- ↑ The Adventures of Superhero Girl
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- Other sources
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- Faith Erin Hicks at Lambiek
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- Faith Erin Hicks at DeviantArt[dead link]
- Zombies Calling preview at Slave Labor Graphics
- Faith Erin Hicks at Library of Congress Authorities, with 3 catalogue records
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