Faith Erin Hicks Explained

Birth Place:	British Columbia
Area:	Writer, artist
Notable Works:	Demonology 101 Zombies Calling The Nameless City trilogy
Awards:	Two Eisner Awards 2003 Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards 2004 Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards

Faith Erin Hicks is a Canadian cartoonist and animator living in Vancouver, British Columbia.

She has created a number of graphic novels, both as sole creator (such as Zombies Calling! and Friends with Boys) and as a collaborator (Nothing Could Possibly Go Wrong and Buffy: The High School Years), as well as serialized works like Demonology 101 and The Adventures of Superhero Girl.

Biography

After studying animation at Sheridan College, Faith Erin Hicks came to prominence with her long-running webcomic Demonology 101 (D101).^[1]

Since the beginning of Demonology 101, Hicks has completed a spinoff of the D101 character Sachs entitled A Distant Faith.^[2] She also created a zombie-movie inspired comic called Zombies Calling,^{[3] [4]} as well as the dystopian comic Ice (originally published on Modern Tales).^[5]

She drew backgrounds for the George of the Jungle animated series and created Jenny’s Brothers, a comic strip to the Halifax Chronicle-Herald.^[6] Her original comic series The Adventures of Superhero Girl ran weekly in Halifax's local free paper, The Coast, as well as on her own website. and was collected into a book by Dark Horse Comics.^[7]

Her graphic novel Friends with Boys was published in February 2012 from First Second. She was also the illustrator and co-writer for the graphic novel , along with Neil Druckmann.

On January 30, 2014, it was announced that Hicks would illustrate the first of two graphic novels written by young adult author Rainbow Rowell.^[8] This book would be published as Pumpkinheads on August 27, 2019.^[9]

On October 26, 2020, Hicks announced she was working on Ride On, her upcoming graphic novel, to be published by First Second.^[10]

Hicks has won two Eisner Awards. In 2014, she won for Best Publication for Kids for The Adventures of Superhero Girl. Then in 2019 Eisner Award for Best Publication for Kids (ages 9–12) for The Nameless City: The Divided Earth.^[11]

Bibliography

• Demonology 101 (webcomic, August 1999 – June 2004)
• Ice (webcomic, Modern Tales 2003 - February 14, 2010)
• Zombies Calling (graphic novel, Slave Labor Graphics, November 2007,)
• The War at Ellsmere (graphic novel, Slave Labor Graphics, December 2008,)
  • One Year at Ellsmere (graphic novel reissue in full color with new lineart, First Second, July 7, 2020,)
• Brain Camp, written by Susan Kim and Laurence Klavan (graphic novel, First Second, August 3, 2010,)
• Friends with Boys (graphic novel, First Second Books, February 2012,)
• Bigfoot Boy, written by J. Torres
  • Into the Woods (graphic novel, Kids Can Press, September 1, 2012,)
  • The Unkindness of Ravens (graphic novel, Kids Can Press, September 1, 2013,)
  • The Sound of Thunder (graphic novel, Kids Can Press, September 1, 2014,)
• The Adventures of Superhero Girl (graphic novel, Dark Horse, February 2013,)
• Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong, written by Prudence Shen (graphic novel, First Second, May 2013,)
• , written by Neil Druckmann (graphic novel, Dark Horse, November 2013,)
• The Nameless City Trilogy
  • The Nameless City, colors by Jordie Bellaire (graphic novel, First Second, April 2016,)
  • The Stone Heart, colors by Jordie Bellaire (graphic novel, First Second, April 2017,)
  • The Divided Earth, colors by Jordie Bellaire (graphic novel, First Second, September 2018,)
• Comics Will Break Your Heart (novel, Roaring Brook Press, February 2019,)
• Pumpkinheads, written by Rainbow Rowell (graphic novel, First Second, August 2019,)
• Avatar: The Last Airbender: Imbalance trilogy, art by Peter Wartman
  • Part One, colors by Ryan Hill (graphic novel, Dark Horse, December 2018)
  • Part Two, colors by Adele Matera (graphic novel, Dark Horse, May 2019)
  • Part Three, colors by Adele Matera (graphic novel, Dark Horse, October 2019)
• Avatar: The Last Airbender: Katara and the Pirate's Silver, art by Peter Wartman, colors by Adele Matera (graphic novel, Dark Horse, October 2020)
• Avatar: The Last Airbender: Toph Beifong's Metalbending Academy, art by Peter Wartman, colors by Adele Matera (graphic novel, Dark Horse, February 2021)
• Ride On (graphic novel, First Second, forthcoming August 2022)^[12]

Awards

• 2003

Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards, for Demonology 101:

• • Won "Outstanding Writing" Award
  • Won "Outstanding Black and White Art" Award
  • Nominated for "Outstanding Art" Award
  • Nominated for "Outstanding Character Development" Award
  • Nominated for "Outstanding Long Form Comic" Award
  • Nominated for "Outstanding Dramatic Comic" Award
• 2004

Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards, for Demonology 101:

• • Won "Outstanding Dramatic Comic" Award
  • Won "Outstanding Long Form Comic" Award
• 2008, for Zombies Calling:
  • Won the "Favourite Canadian Comic Book Creator - English-Language Publications" Joe Shuster Award^[13]
  • Nominated for the "Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Cartoonist (Writer/Artist)" Joe Shuster Award^[14]
• 2014

• • Won the "2014 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award - Best Publication for Kids" for The Adventures of Superhero Girl^[15]
  • Nominated twice the 2013 Shuster Awards both in the category The Dragon Award (Comics for Kids). One nomination was for her solo effort The Adventures of Superhero Girl, and the other was for her collaboration with J. Bone, Bigfoot Boy volume 2.^[16]
• 2019, for The Nameless City: The Divided Earth:
  • Won the "2019 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award - Best Publication for Kids"^[17]

References

Other sources

• News: Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2009: Q&A with Faith Erin Hicks . Medley . Mark . June 5, 2009 . The Afterword . .
• Faith Erin Hicks at Lambiek

Notes and References

1. http://www.sequentialtart.com/archive/june02/indy_0602.shtml Demonology 101 — Faith Erin Hicks
2. Web site: A Distant Faith . 2008-05-01 . 2016-11-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161101134508/http://faith.rydia.net/adistantfaith/index.html . dead .
3. http://www.miltoncanadianchampion.com/arts_and_entertainment/article/144834 Zombies Calling first graphic novel for Hicks
4. http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=155553 Faith Erin Hicks on Zombies Calling
5. http://comixtalk.com/index.php?q=node/8128 The Future on Ice
6. http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotia/1049470.html Watch out for Jenny
7. http://superherogirladventures.blogspot.com/ The Adventures of Superhero Girl
8. Brissey. Breia. Rainbow Rowell signs two-book deal with First Second -- EXCLUSIVE. Entertainment Weekly. 12 August 2014.
9. Canfield. David. Exclusive: Rainbow Rowell unveils cover for her first, Halloween-themed graphic novel. 2021-07-18. Entertainment Weekly. en.
10. Web site: Faith Erin Hicks Talks Her New Graphic Novel Ride On, Horses, Star Trek, and More. 2021-07-18. Comics. en.
11. Web site: 2012-12-02. 2010-Present. 2021-07-18. Comic-Con International: San Diego. en. 2014-02-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20140213024118/http://www.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-award-recipients-2010-present. dead.
12. Web site: Ride On. 2021-11-01. Macmillan Publishers. en.
13. http://joeshusterawards.com/story.asp?storyID=124 The 2008 Joe Shuster Award Results
14. http://joeshusterawards.com/story.asp?storyID=116 Nominees for the 2008 Joe Shuster Awards
15. Web site: Eisner Awards Gallery. 2014. San Diego Comic Con International. 12 August 2014. 1 April 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150401182733/http://www.comic-con.org/awards/gallery/2014-will-eisner-comic-industry-award-winners. dead.
16. Web site: 2014 Nominees and Winners . The Joe Shuster Awards . July 18, 2021.
17. Web site: SDCC '19: The Eisner Awards – LIVE!. 2019. Comics Beat. July 20, 2019.