Whit Taylor

Whit Taylor is an American cartoonist.

Taylor grew up in New Jersey and is based in New York. She has a background in public health, having earned a MPH and then worked in public health. She pursued film before turning to comics after attending a number of comics conventions and shows. She has contributed to The Comics Beat, The Comics Journal, and other comics news outlets, including The Nib. In 2014 she was a juror for the Ignatz Awards.

Recognition

+ Awards and nominations for Whit Taylor Year Organisation Award Work Result 2012 Glyph Comics Awards Rising Star Award Watermelon 2013 Ignatz Awards Best Series Madtown High 2014 Glyph Comics Awards Best Writer Boxes 2014 Glyph Comics Awards Fan Award for Best Work Boxes 2015 Best American Comics 2015 Notable Comic Boxes 2016 Slate Slate Cartoonist Studio Prize Short List for Best Web Comic of the Year The Fabric of Appropriation

Works

Watermelon (2011, self-published) Relics (2012, self-published) Madtown High (2013, self-published five-issue series) Stethoscope Microphone (2013, self-published) Boxes (2013, self-published) The Anthropologists (2014, Sparkplug Books) Berries (2014, self-published) Up Down Clown (2015, Ninth Art Press) Ghost (2015, self-published) Wallpaper (2016, Self-published) Ghost Stories (2018, Rosarium Press) Ley Lines No. 17: Smile (Czap Books/Grindstone Press, 2019) Fizzle Series (2017-, Radiator Comics) Montana Diary (2021, Silver Sprocket)