Theo Ellsworth
Theo Ellsworth is a self-taught artist and comics creator. In 2010, he was a recipient of the Best Art Vinyl award.
Ellsworth first book Capacity was published in 2008 by Secret Acres. It is made up of material from his mini comics produced between 2005 and 2007 plus 100 pages of addition material created specifically for this publication to tie all the stories together.
Sleeper Car is a 32 page comic that came out in 2009. The story Norman Eight's Right Arm from Sleeper Car was chosen for The Best American Comics 2010.[1]
Book One of his The Understanding Monster trilogy came out in 2012 and won the 2013 Lynd Ward Honor Book prize given out by Penn State. Book two of the Understanding Monster is due out in the fall of 2014, and book three is still being drawn.
His work has been described as "a cross between cartooning and art, poetry and the nonsensical ramblings of a writer emerging from a dream."[2]
Published works
- Ellsworth, Theo. Sleeper Car, Secret Acres, 2009. ISBN 978-0-9799609-6-3
- Ellsworth, Theo. Capacity, Secret Acres, 2010. ISBN 978-0-9799609-2-5
- Ellsworth, Theo. The Understanding Monster, Secret Acres, 2012. ISBN 978-0-9831662-4-5
References
- ↑ Neil Gaiman, ed., The Best American Comics 2010 (Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010), 323
- ↑ Martin J. Kidston, "An hour with ... Theo Ellsworth," Independent Record, October 1, 2005, http://helenair.com/lifestyles/article_b3e08005-2c07-5cd3-8f41-ee14f1fc88a3.html