Sarah Graley Explained

Birth Name:Sarah Graley
Birth Date:3 October 1991
Birth Place:Northampton, England
Nationality:British
Spouse:Stef Purenins
Cartoonist:y
Write:y
Art:y
Website:official website

Sarah Graley (born 3 October 1991) is a British cartoonist, best known for the ongoing webcomic, Our Super Adventure, and for their work on comic series such as Kim Reaper, Glitch, Minecraft and Donut The Destroyer.

Career

Graley graduated from the University of Wolverhampton with a BA (Hons) in Visual Communication (Illustration).[1] During their studies, Graley started the webcomic series Our Super Adventure and self-published three small printed collections of comic strips between 2013 and 2015.

In 2015, Graley ran a Kickstarter project for a hardcover collection of 200 Our Super Adventure comics.[2] It raised 450% of its goal.[3] They have since gone on to publish four main volumes of Our Super Adventure comics, and three shorter travel comic collections.

Their first published comic work was the Oni Press miniseries Rick and Morty: Lil' Poopy Superstar (2016), a five-issue spin-off of the main Rick and Morty comic book series, of which Graley was the writer and illustrator.[4]

Graley's original comic series Kim Reaper was released by Oni Press in 2017.[5]

Their first middle grade graphic novel Glitch was released by Scholastic Graphix in 2019.[6] [7]

Graley was the artist on the first official Minecraft graphic novel, Minecraft Vol. 1, which was published by Dark Horse Comics in 2019.[8] They were also the artist on two sequels; Minecraft Vol. 2, published in 2020,[9] and Minecraft Vol. 3, published in 2021. [10] Minecraft Vol. 1 was Dark Horse Comics' best selling graphic novel in 2020, [11] 2021, [12] 2022, [13] and 2023 [14] according to BookScan.

Graley's second middle grade novel Donut the Destroyer was co-created with their partner Stef Purenins, and it was released in 2020 by Scholastic Graphix.[15]

Graley and Purenins co-created a webcomic called Bite + Subscribe! which was released online through webcomic app Tinyview from 2021 to 2023 [16] and a print edition was self-published in 2022 which was titled Bite + Subscribe Volume 1.

The duo also wrote a five-issue arc of the IDW comic book series, Marvel Action Spider-Man, which was released in 2021. [17]

In 2022, Graley and Purenins started a YouTube channel dedicated to simple animated versions of Our Super Adventure comic strips. As of June 2024, the channel has over 300,000 subscribers, and total video views of over 126 million. [18]

Music

In 2012, Graley and their partner Stef Purenins formed a band which they named Sonic the Comic, after the UK's official Sega comic of the 1990s.[19] The band is still together and their last album, "Stabatha EP", was released in July 2016. The band's albums were only ever released physically in an extremely limited quantity but they are still available to listen to digitally.

The band's four available albums are titled: Pixel (November 1, 2013), [20] Reveries EP, (August 5, 2014), [21] Atoms, (May 4, 2015), [22] and Stabatha EP (July 4, 2016).[23] The band's genre is a mixture of indie-pop and pop-punk.

Awards

Bibliography

Graphic novels

Comic collections

Comic books

Other publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: News - Illustration graduate's career taking off - University of Wolverhampton. www.wlv.ac.uk. en. 2018-04-12. 13 April 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180413043353/https://www.wlv.ac.uk/about-us/our-schools-and-institutes/faculty-of-arts/wolverhampton-school-of-art/news/illustration-graduates-career-taking-off.php. dead.
  2. Web site: Our Super Adventure. Kickstarter. en-US. 2018-04-12.
  3. Web site: Our Super Adventure. www.kicktraq.com. 2018-04-12.
  4. News: Oni Press Announces Rick And Morty Spinoff Lil'. 2016-02-19. Bleeding Cool News And Rumors. 2018-04-12. en-US.
  5. Web site: Oni Celebrates Queer Supernatural Adventure With 'Kim Reaper' #1. ComicsAlliance. 17 January 2017 . en. 2018-04-12.
  6. News: Book Deals: Week of May 8, 2017. PublishersWeekly.com. 2018-04-12. en.
  7. Book: Graley, Sarah. Glitch. 2019. 9781338174526. 1st. New York. 1100422564.
  8. Web site: Minecraft Volume 1 TPB :: Profile :: Dark Horse Comics. www.darkhorse.com. 2019-08-18.
  9. Web site: Minecraft Volume 2 TPB :: Profile :: Dark Horse Comics . 2024-06-25 . www.darkhorse.com.
  10. Web site: Minecraft Volume 3 TPB :: Profile :: Dark Horse Comics . 2024-06-25 . www.darkhorse.com.
  11. Web site: Staff . Beat . 2021-08-18 . Tilting at Windmills #285: Looking at NPD BookScan: 2020 . 2024-06-25 . The Beat . en-US.
  12. Web site: Staff . Beat . 2022-04-06 . Looking at NPD BookScan 2021 - and it's a doozy . 2024-06-25 . The Beat . en-US.
  13. Web site: Staff . Beat . 2023-04-05 . Tilting at Windmills #294: Looking at NPD BookScan 2022 . 2024-06-25 . The Beat . en-US.
  14. Web site: Staff . Beat . 2024-04-11 . Bookscan 2023: comics sales sag but Scholastic was a powerhouse . 2024-06-25 . The Beat . en-US.
  15. Web site: Rights Report: Week of February 11, 2019. PublishersWeekly.com. en. 2019-08-18.
  16. Web site: Bite+Subscribe! . 2024-06-25 . tinyview.com . en.
  17. Web site: MARVEL ACTION SPIDER-MAN #1 (SEP200502) . 2024-06-25 . www.previewsworld.com . en.
  18. Web site: Our Super Adventure . 2024-06-25 . YouTube . en.
  19. Web site: Sonic the Comic . 2020-11-02 . sonicthecomic.bandcamp.com . en.
  20. Web site: Pixel . 2020-02-22 . Band Camp . en-US.
  21. Web site: Reveries EP . 2020-02-22 . Band Camp . en-US.
  22. Web site: Atoms . 2020-02-22 . Band Camp . en-US.
  23. Web site: Stabatha EP . 2020-02-22 . Band Camp . en-US.
  24. Web site: British Comic Awards 2015 Shortlist. www.brokenfrontier.com. 5 October 2015 . en-US. 2018-04-12.
  25. News: DC And Boom Are Diamond's Comics Publishers Of The Year - The 2016 Gem Awards Results (UPDATE). 2017-01-19. Bleeding Cool News And Rumors. 2018-04-12. en-US.
  26. Web site: The kids have chosen their favorites! . 2024-06-25 . Ann Arbor Comic Arts Festival . en.
  27. News: Invader Zim #26. 2017-12-11. CBR. 2018-04-12. en-US.
  28. Web site: Marvel Action Spider-Man (2021) #1 Comic Issues Marvel . 2024-06-25 . www.marvel.com . en.
  29. Web site: Marvel Action Spider-Man (2021) #2 Comic Issues Marvel . 2024-06-25 . www.marvel.com . en.
  30. Web site: Marvel Action Spider-Man (2021) #3 Comic Issues Marvel . 2024-06-25 . www.marvel.com . en.
  31. Web site: Marvel Action Spider-Man (2021) #4 Comic Issues Marvel . 2024-06-25 . www.marvel.com . en.
  32. Web site: Marvel Action Spider-Man (2021) #5 Comic Issues Marvel . 2024-06-25 . www.marvel.com . en.

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