About


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Hello! I’m Laura Terry, cartoonist, illustrator and expert in tomfoolery. My proudest achievement yet is the creation of my new graphic novel, Adorable Empire, coming August 2025 and currently available for presale.

I’m also the author and illustrator of the graphic novel, Graveyard Shakes and illustrator of Anna Strong and the Revolutionary War Culper Spy Ring. As a child, I spent my days in rural Texas raising livestock, playing in the woods, and discovering an intense love for art and books. I studied painting at Pratt Institute, then got my very fancy Masters in Cartooning from the Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont. Now, I work (and play) as an illustrator and cartoonist in Brooklyn with my tiny poodle Muffin. I especially love drawing adorable woodland creatures and fantasy stories involving ghosts.


Press


Awards

Junior Library Guild Selection
Graveyard Shakes was honored by the Junior Library Guild as one of their 2016 selections.
Best American Comics, Notable Comic
Overboard was chosen as one of the Best American Comics Notable books of 2013.
Ignatz Nomination
Morning Song was nominated for an Ignatz Award for outstanding mini-comic.
Xeric Grant Winner
Overboard won a Xeric Grant in 2012, for self-published comics.