| Alex Hallatt | |
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Alex Hallatt (born c. 1970/1971) is a cartoonist.
Hallatt grew up in Dorset, England.[1] She has a degree in biochemistry from the University of Kent at Canterbury.[2]
One of her first comic strips was for her university newspaper. The comic was about a student who was half man and half mosquito who was fly-swatted at the end. Once she obtained her degree, worked as a waitress at a restaurant in New Jersey while developing her comic Polar Circle, later named Arctic Circle. Hallatt also went on to work in clinical research[3] for seven years before becoming a full-time cartoonist in 1999 where she landed a job working for Brighton's daily newspaper. In 2003, she moved to Lyttelton, New Zealand, before moving to Australia in 2008.[4] [5] In 2012, she returned to England. The American syndicate King Features distributes her comic Arctic Circle. Her webcomic, Human Cull, appears on GoComics.com.[1]
Hallatt writes and illustrates books for children. Her first chapter book, FAB (Friends Against Bullying) Club, was published in 2016.