Tillie Walden (born May 4, 1996) is an up-and-coming American comic writer and artist, a two-time winner of both Ignatz and Eisner awards (she was one of the youngest people to ever win an Eisner at just 22). She cites Yoshihiro Togashi (creator of Hunter × Hunter) and Studio Ghibli as her primary storytelling influences, with other indie graphic novelists like Alison Bechdel, Craig Thompson, and David Small also shaping her approach. She later graduated from The Center for Cartoon Studies in Hartford, Vermont, and currently teaches there.
Her stories often have a dreamlike quality to them, and she is well known for her inventive, fantastical visuals and copious usage of open space to demonstrate a characters state of mind. Walden is gay, and many if not most of her characters usually are as well.
She and her wife Emma live in Vermont with their two cats.
Works include
- The End of Summer (writer & artist, 2015; 2016 Ignatz Award-winner for Outstanding Artist)
- I Love This Part (writer & artist, 2015; 2016 Ignatz Award-winner for Promising New Talent)
- A City Inside (writer & artist, 2016)
- Spinning (writer & artist, 2017; 2018 Eisner Award-winner for Best Reality-Based Work)
- On a Sunbeam (writer & artist, 2017; 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner)
- Are You Listening? (writer & artist, 2019; 2020 Eisner Award-winner for Best Graphic Album-New)
- Wonder Woman: Black and Gold: "Homecoming" (writer & artist)
- The Walking Dead: Clementine (writer & artist)
