Sarah Glidden
Glidden in 2010
BornSarah Glidden
1980
Massachusetts, U.S.
sarahglidden.com

Sarah Glidden (born in 1980) is an American cartoonist known for her nonfiction comics and graphic novels.

Biography

Glidden was born in Massachusetts,[1] to a family of Jewish background.[2] Glidden studied painting at Boston University.[1] She began making comics in 2006 when she was living at the Flux Factory artist collective in Queens, New York.[3] She visited Israel as part of a Birthright Israel tour in 2007.[4][5][6][7] The self-published minicomics she made about that experience won her a 2008 Ignatz Award for "Promising New Talent".[8] In 2010, Glidden wrote and illustrated the graphic novel How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less, a full-length exploration of her 2007 trip. The book has subsequently been translated into five languages.

From 2010 to 2012, Glidden was part of Pizza Island, a studio consisting of cartoonists Julia Wertz, Lisa Hanawalt, Domitille Collardey, Karen Sneider, Kate Beaton and Meredith Gran.[9]

Since the publication of How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less, Glidden has been working in comics journalism. Her 20-page comic on Iraqi refugees in Syria was published on the website Cartoon Movement in 2011, and she also did work for the comics journalism publication Symbolia.[10][11]

Glidden spent a year in Angoulême, France, as an artist in residence at the Maison des Auteurs.[12]

In October 2016, Drawn & Quarterly published Glidden's Rolling Blackouts, the nonfiction story of her travels in 2010 through Turkey, Syria, and Iraq with a small team of journalists. Rolling Blackouts won the 2017 Lynd Ward Prize for Graphic Novel of the Year, sponsored by Penn State University Libraries and administered by the Pennsylvania Center for the Book.[13][14][15]

Glidden lives in Seattle, Washington.[16]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ a b "Sarah Glidden". Drawn & Quarterly. Retrieved 2021-01-03. Sarah Glidden was born in 1980 in Massachusetts and studied painting at Boston University.
  2. ^ "How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less". sarahglidden.com. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
  3. ^ "Flux Factory". Sarah Glidden. 2014-03-29. Archived from the original on 2014-03-29. Retrieved 2019-03-06.
  4. ^ Nirit Anderman (November 5, 2010). "How One U.S. Jew Stopped Worrying, Began Drawing, and Started Loving Israel". Haaretz. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
  5. ^ Cavna, Michael. "Sarah Glidden discusses 'How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less'". The Washington Post.
  6. ^ "Sarah Glidden Explains 'How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less' [Interview]". ComicsAlliance. 2010-11-02. Retrieved 2019-03-06.
  7. ^ "24 Hours of Women's Cartooning: Sarah Glidden". 29 March 2013.
  8. ^ "2008 Ignatz Award Recipients". Small Press Expo. 2008.
  9. ^ "To the Comic Drawn". NYMag.com.
  10. ^ Weinberg, Jessica. "Hello to Symbolia: New iPad-only comics journalism magazine launches today", Columbia Journalism Review website (Dec. 3, 2012).
  11. ^ "Sarah Glidden's 'The Waiting Room' Documents Iraqi Refugees in Syria". ComicsAlliance. 2011-04-13. Retrieved 2019-03-06.
  12. ^ sarahglidden (2012-01-22). "A Walk Around Angoulême". Sarah Glidden – comics, essays, illustration. Retrieved 2019-03-06.
  13. ^ "'Rolling Blackouts' wins 2017 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize | Penn State University". news.psu.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-07.
  14. ^ "Glidden's 'Rolling Blackouts' Wins 2017 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2020-11-07.
  15. ^ Cahoy, Ellysa (21 September 2017). "BookMark: "Rolling Blackouts" By Sarah Glidden". radio.wpsu.org. Retrieved 2020-11-07.
  16. ^ Sears, Kelton (2016-10-05). "Seattle Comics Journalist Sarah Glidden's New Graphic Novel Isn't Afraid to Admit Journalism Is Weird". Seattle Weekly. Retrieved 2019-03-06.

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