Sarah McIntyre

Sarah McIntyre
Born Seattle, Washington, US
Occupation Illustrator, writer
Genre children's books, picture books
Website
www.jabberworks.co.uk

Sarah McIntyre (born 1975) is a British-American illustrator and writer of children's books and comics. She graduated in 1999 from Bryn Mawr College with a degree in Russian and a minor degree in History of Art and earned her Master's Degree in Illustration at Camberwell College of Arts in 2007. She works with other artists in The Fleece Station studio in Deptford, South London.

Sarah was awarded the Sheffield Children's Book award for Best Picture Book and Overall Winner for her illustrations in the book Morris the Mankiest Monster in 2010,[1] which also won the Bishop's Stortford Picture Book Award 2010.[2] She also won the Leeds Graphic Novel Award 2011 for Vern and Lettuce,[2] which ran originally as a weekly comic strip in The DFC and in The Guardian newspaper.[3]

Her projects include designing Monsterville at Discover Children's Story Centre[3] in Stratford, London and participation in its online StoryCloud project.[4] She curated The Comics Big-Top of Awesome at the 2012 Pop Up Festival[5] in London.

Books

References

  1. "Your 2010 Winners!". Sheffield Children's Book Award. December 2011. Retrieved September 3, 2012.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Sarah McIntyre wins book prize". Forbidden Planet International. February 2012. Retrieved September 3, 2012.
  3. 3.0 3.1 "How I Make Comics". Guardian (London). Retrieved September 3, 2012.
  4. Chilton, Martin (June 18, 2012). "Olympic StoryCloud project is flying high". Telegraph (London). Retrieved September 3, 2012.
  5. Flood, Alison (June 20, 2012). "Pop Up Festival of Stories makes a noise about children's books". Guardian Books (London). Retrieved September 3, 2012.

External links