In addition to comics, Larson has worked as a freelance illustrator for various clients, including the New York Times. She has also worked as a letterer on such books as Chynna Clugston's Blue Monday: Painted Moon. In June 20, the Four Points duology (titled Compass South and Knife's Edge), written by Larson with art by Rebecca Mock, was published by Macmillan Press's Square Fish and FSG Books for Young Readers imprints. In March 2016, it was announced she would be the new writer for DC Comics's new Batgirl series, a run that saw the character go on back packing trip through China on a voyage of self-discovery. She has released several minicomics and prints through the Tulip Tree website the only book released under the Tulip Tree name was House of Sugar, an award-winning collection of Rebecca Kraatz's comic strip, released in November 2006. Īlso in 2006, Larson launched her own publishing imprint, Tulip Tree Press. The first book under this deal, Chiggers (released June 18, 2008, under the Atheneum Books Ginee Seo imprint), is a graphic novel for the middle grade (ages 9-12) audience about "nerdy teenaged girls" who meet at summer camp. In 2006, Larson signed a two-book contract with New York publishing house Simon & Schuster. This eventually became her first full-length book, published by AdHouse Books in September 2005 she moved to Oni Press for her second graphic novel, Gray Horses (released March 2006). She contributed to comics anthologies Flight, True Porn 2, and You Ain't No Dancer, while working on a web-serialized graphic novel, Salamander Dream. Afterwards, Larson concentrated on a number of small, hand-made minicomics, combining her interests in comics, screenprinting, and bookmaking.Īfter college, she moved to Toronto with her then-husband, Canadian cartoonist Bryan Lee O'Malley over the years they moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia and Asheville, North Carolina, before settling in California in 2010. Soon after, she was invited to the webcomics anthology site Girlamatic and produced her first professional comic, a web serial entitled I Was There & Just Returned. While Larson was still in college, Scott McCloud took an interest in her illustrations, encouraging her to create comics. She later transferred to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she graduated with a BFA in 2004. Upon graduation from Carolina Day School, she matriculated at Rochester Institute of Technology. Larson was born in September 1982 and grew up in Asheville, North Carolina, and attended Carolina Day School. 3.3 Selected short stories and minicomics.
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