Lucy Knisley

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Lucy is an illustrator, comic artist and author. Occasionally she is a puppeteer, ukulele player and amateur food/travel writer. Her first published book, French Milk, is a drawn journal about living (and eating) in Paris with her mother. (From Touchstone Publishing from Simon and Schuster), August of 2008. She also has a number of self-published works, and has contributed to a wide variety of comic anthologies. Many of these are available in the "buy stuff" section. Miss Knisley (the K is silent) is a graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she went to study painting, and ended up making comics. She then studied at the Center for Cartoon Studies, where she received a scholarship to pursue her MFA (completed in June, 2009). Beginning with a love for Archie comics, Tintin and Calvin and Hobbes, she has been making comics in some form or another since she could hold a pencil. Now most of her work is drawn with Faber-Castell black PITT pens or a Pentel pocket brush pen on smooth bristol board or cheap computer paper, and colored on the computer. She was born in 1985 in New York City, and raised by a family of foodies. She now lives in Chicago, where she's working on her second major graphic novel project (a book about food, from First Second Publishing). She also teaches a weekly comics class at a local elementary school, ages 8 to 11, where she can be among her peers in maturity. During her years at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she ed

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