Lisa Swerling

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Lisa Swerling is a UK-based writer, artist and illustrator. Partnering with her husband Ralph Lazar, they are best known for their cartoon characters Harold's Planet, Vimrod and The Brainwaves.

Harold's Planet and Vimrod are amongst the UK's most prominent greetings cards series, and have been published in book form by Penguin Books, Harper Collins and Andrews McMeel. The Brainwaves are cartoon characters that populate Dorling Kindersley's children's reference titles, published in over a dozen languages. Their artwork appears weekly in The Financial Times and The Scotsman.

Swerling is also known for her Glass Cathedral sculptures which are showcased at a number of solo shows in London each year.

Awards and nominations include The Royal Society Prizes for Science Books (shortlist - 2008 ^[1]), Annecy International Animated Film Festival Grand Prix winner 1998 (International Project Competition), The Royal Society Prizes for Science Books (shortlist - 2007 ^[2]), The Washington Post Book of the Week (April 2007^[3]) and The US Parent's Choice Awards (shortlist non-fiction 2006^[4]).

Lisa Swerling was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1972, and has degrees in Politics and Philosophy from Oxford University. She formerly ran her own graphic-design business in London.

She lives with her husband and children in Muswell Hill (London). Swerling and Lazar hold an annual solo art exhibition at The Old Truman Brewery in London's East End as part of the London Design Festival.