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Faith Erin Hicks
Hicks in March 2018
BornBritish Columbia
Area(s)Writer, artist
Notable works
Demonology 101
Zombies Calling
The Nameless City trilogy
AwardsTwo 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.

Biography

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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]

Bibliography

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Awards

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  • 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:
  • 2014:
    • Won the "2014 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award - Best Publication for Kids" for The Adventures of Superhero Girl[11]
    • Nominated twice the 2013 Shuster Awards both in the category The Dragon Award (Comics for Kids). One nomination was for her solo effort The Adventures of Superhero Girl, and the other was for her collaboration with J. Bone, Bigfoot Boy volume 2.[16]
  • 2019, for The Nameless City: The Divided Earth:
    • Won the "2019 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award - Best Publication for Kids"[17]

References

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  1. ^ Demonology 101 — Faith Erin Hicks, Sequential Tart
  2. ^ "A Distant Faith". Archived from the original on 2016-11-01. Retrieved 2008-05-01.
  3. ^ Zombies Calling first graphic novel for Hicks, Milton Canadian Champion, December 21, 2007
  4. ^ a b Faith Erin Hicks on Zombies Calling[permanent dead link‍], Newsarama, May 1, 2008
  5. ^ The Future on Ice, January 2008, archived on the Internet Archive.
  6. ^ Watch out for Jenny[permanent dead link‍] (cached), Halifax Chronicle-Herald, April 12, 2008.
  7. ^ The Adventures of Superhero Girl
  8. ^ Brissey, Breia. "Rainbow Rowell signs two-book deal with First Second -- EXCLUSIVE". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
  9. ^ Canfield, David. "Exclusive: Rainbow Rowell unveils cover for her first, Halloween-themed graphic novel". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2021-07-18.
  10. ^ "Faith Erin Hicks Talks Her New Graphic Novel Ride On, Horses, Star Trek, and More". Comics. Retrieved 2021-07-18.
  11. ^ a b "Eisner Awards Gallery". San Diego Comic Con International. 2014. Archived from the original on 1 April 2015. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
  12. ^ "2010-Present". Comic-Con International: San Diego. 2012-12-02. Archived from the original on 2014-02-13. Retrieved 2021-07-18.
  13. ^ "Ride On". Macmillan Publishers. Retrieved 2021-11-01.
  14. ^ The 2008 Joe Shuster Award Results
  15. ^ Nominees for the 2008 Joe Shuster Awards
  16. ^ "2014 Nominees and Winners". The Joe Shuster Awards. Retrieved July 18, 2021.
  17. ^ "SDCC '19: The Eisner Awards – LIVE!". Comics Beat. 2019. Retrieved July 20, 2019.
Other sources
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