Tula Lotay Explained

Alt:Lutay standing with her arms crossed
Birth Name:Lisa Wood
Birth Place:West Yorkshire, U.K.
Artist:y
Notable Works:Supreme: Blue Rose
Thought Bubble Festival
Nationality:British
Awards:Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award (2019)

Tula Lotay is the pen name of Lisa Wood, an English comic book artist.[1] She is known for illustrating Supreme: Blue Rose, written by Warren Ellis for Image Comics,[2] [3] and for founding the Thought Bubble Festival, the UK's largest comics convention.[4] She was also an artist for Si Spencer's eight-part series Bodies, published by Vertigo.[5]

Biography

Lotay grew up in Batley, West Yorkshire.[6] She was adopted when she was a young child and had dyslexia. She attended Dewsbury College and the University of Bradford.

In 2007, while an employee of the local comics and board game retailer Travelling Man, she founded the annual Thought Bubble Festival to promote comic books to the general public, especially children with reading difficulties.[5] Before becoming a comics artist, she was on the British Comic Awards Committee but resigned in 2013 to pursue a full-time art career.

Her first work was the cover art for Elephantmen #5 (2012), and in American Vampire: Anthology #1 (2013). She has also contributed to Red Sonja.[2] She illustrated issue #13 of The Wicked + The Divine, which was published in 2015[2] and nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book.[7]

Lotay and her Supreme collaborator Warren Ellis announced in 2015 that they were working on a new comic, Heartless. As of early 2018, Heartless has yet to be released, but work was in progress.[8]

In early 2022, Lotay stepped down as manager of the Thought Bubble Festival in order to concentrate on her art career and family.[9]

Awards

In 2019, in recognition for her work in creating the Thought Bubble Festival, Lotay was awarded the Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award [10] [11] at San Diego Comic-Con's Eisner Awards. Upon receiving the award, Lotay said:In 2023, Lotay won the Eisner Award for Best Digital Comic for her work on Barnstormers: A Ballad of Love and Murder with writer Scott Snyder.

In 2024, Lotay won the Eisner Award for Best New Series[12] for her work with Becky Cloonan on Somna: A Bed Time Story published by DSTLRY

Bibliography

Interior art

DC Comics/Vertigo Comics

Dynamite Entertainment

Image Comics

Marvel Comics

Comixology Originals

Cover art

Archie Comics

Boom! Studios

Dark Horse Comics

Darryl Makes Comics

DC Comics/Vertigo

Dynamite Entertainment

Great Beast

IDW Publishing

Image Comics

Independent

Marvel Comics

Titan Books

Valiant Comics

Art books

Notes and References

  1. Web site: https://imagecomics.com/creators/view/tula-lotay. Image Comics. 27 March 2017.
  2. Web site: "Working in a Cupboard" — An Interview with Comic Artist Tula Lotay. Tor.com. Karin L.. Kross. 17 July 2015. 27 March 2017.
  3. News: State of the Art: Tula Lotay on Communicating Emotion and Confusion in Supreme: Blue Rose. Paste Magazine. Lilith. Wood. 5 March 2015. 27 March 2017.
  4. News: Thought Bubble: Thousands of people in Leeds attend UK's largest comic book festival . Yorkshire Evening Post . . 2013-10-17.
  5. News: Leeds comic book queen is picture perfect. Yorkshire Evening Post. 14 August 2014. 27 March 2017.
  6. Freeman, Sarah. "Bubble rap: How comic books changed our lives: Struggling to read as a child, Lisa Wood found escape through comic books. Now an artist, she tells Sarah Freeman about the Thought Bubble festival which is devoted to comic art," The Yorkshire Post (16 November 2014).
  7. Web site: Outstanding Comic Book. GLAAD Media Awards. 27 March 2017.
  8. Web site: The Image Comics Expo Announcements That Went Missing In Action, Lost And Found.... 2016-05-13. Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movie, TV News. 2017-02-19.
  9. Lomax, Claire. "Ilkley comic artist Tula Lotay steps down from Thought Bubble convention," The Telegraph and Argus (3 Feb. 2022).
  10. Web site: Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award. 5 December 2012.
  11. Web site: Newsarama | GamesRadar+. 24 November 2023 .
  12. Web site: Puc . Samantha . July 26, 2024 . SDCC ’24: Announcing the 2024 Eisner Award winners . Comics Beat.
  13. News: Female Western 'Girl With No Name' in the Works. The Hollywood Reporter. 2018-10-06. en.

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