Cartoonist Ellen Forney is the author of the bestselling graphic memoir, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me (2012) and its companion book, Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice From My Bipolar Life (2018). Her other books include I Love Led Zeppelin, Lust, and Monkey Food: The Complete “I Was Seven In ‘75” Collection. She collaborated on the National Book Award-winning novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, and has been awarded residencies from Civitella Ranieri, MacDowell, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Hedgebrook.
Ellen curated “Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived & Well-Drawn," a traveling exhibition about comics and health for the National Library of Medicine, and as a visual artist she was selected to create two permanent large-scale murals for Seattle’s Capitol Hill light rail station. She teaches comics at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle.
Portrait by Jacob Peter Fennell
