I’M SO POPULAR: Comics by Glynnis Fawkes
So popular and the biggest pants: #winning. Glynnis Fawkes draws comics about her children and their daily exploits. She is up for an Ignatz this weekend at the Small Press Expo for a prior MUTHA Comic, “Just Doing My Job.” Get yourself to SPX and please VOTE FOR GLYNNIS, rah-rah MUTHAs!
About the Author
Glynnis Fawkes is a cartoonist and archaeological illustrator. Her comics for MuthaMagazine were nominated for an Ignatz Award at the Small Press Expo in 2016. Recently her work has appeared on The New Yorker.com and in the magazine. Here latest book, Reign of Crumbs, is available from Kilgore Books. Her Greek Diary was shortlisted webcomics for the Slate Cartoonist Studio Prize and won a silver medal at the Society of Illustrators MoCCA Arts Festival in 2017. In April 2016, her book (in progress) Alle Ego also won the MoCCA Arts Festival Award for Excellence. She has illustrated several academic books (Three Stones Make a Wall, Kinyras the Divine Lyre) and worked extensively as illustrator on archaeological projects in Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Lebanon, and Israel. A Fulbright Fellowship to Cyprus allowed her to publish Archaeology Lives in Cyprus (Hellenic Bank, Nicosia 2001), a book of paintings, and Cartoons of Cyprus (Moufflon Publications, Nicosia, 2001). She was named among the Best American Comics Notables in 2012 and 2013 and she won a Sequential Artists Workshop grant in 2013. She lives in Burlington with her music archaeologist/classics professor husband and two children. Her work may be seen at GlynnisFawkes.com.
