Hope Larson

Larson grew up in Asheville, North Carolina, and attended Carolina Day School.Anne Fitten Glenn. [http://www.mountainx.com/ae/2008/happy_feet_sore_fingers "Graphic Insight"]. Mountain Xpress. Retrieved on December 24, 2008. Upon graduation from high school, she matriculated at Rochester Institute of Technology and then transferred to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2004. She then moved to Toronto with her husband, Canadian cartoonist Bryan Lee O'Malley. In 2005, they moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia.

From 2008 until 2010, Larson and O'Malley lived in Asheville, North Carolina, later moving to Los Angeles, California.{{cite web|url=http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=153858 |title=Hope Larson on Chiggers and More |work=Newsarama |author=Zack Smith |access-date=April 18, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081212221505/http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=153858 |archive-date=December 12, 2008 }} She and O'Malley divorced in 2014.{{cite web|url=http://www.macleans.ca/culture/books/scott-pilgrim-grows-up/ |title=Scott Pilgrim grows up |date=July 18, 2014 |first=Adrian |last=Lee |access-date=August 28, 2014 }} She returned to Asheville, where she currently{{when|date=November 2023}} lives.{{cite web|url=https://wncmagazine.com/feature/art_story |title=The Art of the Story: Graphic Novelist Hope Larson Weaves words and Images to Create New Worlds |date=July 2018 |first=Ali |last=McGhee |access-date=June 24, 2019 }}

While Larson was in college, Scott McCloud took an interest in her illustrations, encouraging her to create comics. 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.comicbookgalaxy.com/larson.html|title=The Hope Larson Interview|work=Comic Book Galaxy|author=Gordon McAlpin|access-date=September 20, 2006}} Afterwards, Larson concentrated on a number of small, hand-made minicomics, combining her interests in comics, screenprinting, and bookmaking.

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. 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).

In 2006, Larson signed a two-book contract with New York publishing house Simon & Schuster. The first book under this deal, Chiggers (released June 18, 2008, under the Atheneum Books Ginee Seo imprint),{{Cite news|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/hope-larson/chiggers/|title=CHIGGERS by Hope Larson & illustrated by Hope Larson|date=May 1, 2008|work=Kirkus Reviews}} is a graphic novel about "nerdy teenaged girls" who meet at summer camp. Chiggers is intended for a 9- to 12-year-old audience.{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6339176.html |title=Hope Larson Signs Two-book Deal with S&S |work=Publishers Weekly |author=Heidi MacDonald |access-date=September 20, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060618005302/http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6339176.html |archive-date=June 18, 2006 }}

In 2012, Larson adapted Madeleine L'Engle's work as A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel, published by Margaret Ferguson Books (a Farrar Straus Giroux imprint).{{Cite news|url=http://herocomplex.latimes.com/books/a-wrinkle-in-time-the-graphic-novel-hope-larson-inks-a-classic/|title='A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel': Hope Larson inks a classic|last=Clark|first=Noelene|date=2012-10-03|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=2017-11-13|language=en-US}}

In 2016, Larson became the new writer for DC Comics Batgirl,{{Cite news|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/batgirl-barbara-gordon-heading-japan-914736|title=New 'Batgirl' Writer Reveals Why She Moved the Superhero Out of Gotham|last=Johnston|first=George|date=July 27, 2016|work=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=2017-11-13|language=en}} a run that saw the character go on back-packing trip through Asia on a voyage of self-discovery.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bustle.com/articles/173493-hope-larson-talks-about-the-challenges-of-batgirl-1-and-reveals-her-favorite-comic-book-heroines|title=Hope Larson Talks About The Challenges Of 'Batgirl #1' And Reveals Her Favorite Comic Book Heroines|last=Ahlin|first=Charlotte|date=August 1, 2016|work=Bustle|access-date=2017-11-13}}

In addition to comics, Larson has worked as a freelance illustrator for various clients, including the New York Times.

She has worked as a letterer on such books as Brian Wood and Ryan Kelly's Local.

Larson's book All Summer Long was released by Farrar Straus Giroux in the spring of 2018.{{Cite magazine|url=http://ew.com/books/first-second-spring-2018-cover-reveal/june-26-2018all-summer-long-by-hope-larson|title=First Look at First Second's Spring 2018 Graphic Novels|last=Clark|first=Noelene|date=2017-08-09|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=2017-11-13|language=en-US|archive-date=2017-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171113165534/http://ew.com/books/first-second-spring-2018-cover-reveal/june-26-2018all-summer-long-by-hope-larson/|url-status=dead}}

In 2006, Larson launched her own publishing imprint, Tulip Tree Press. She has released several minicomics and prints through the Tulip Tree website;{{Cite web |url=http://www.tuliptreepress.net/ |title=www.tuliptreepress.net is Expired or Suspended |access-date=2006-09-21 |archive-date=2021-01-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126091547/http://www.tuliptreepress.net/ |url-status=dead }} the only book released under the Tulip Tree name was House of Sugar, an award-winning collection of Rebecca Kraatz's comic strip, released 15 November 2006.{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6343184.html |title=Fans Look for Books at MoCCA 2006 |work=Publishers Weekly |author=Douglas Wolk |access-date=September 21, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061230100814/http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6343184.html |archive-date=December 30, 2006 }}

Larson was nominated for the 2006 Kim Yale Award for Best New Female Talent, and won the 2006 Ignatz Award in the category Promising New Talent.{{cite web|url=http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/10/15/2006-ignatz-award-winners/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120713042327/http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/10/15/2006-ignatz-award-winners/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 13, 2012 |title=2006 Ignatz Award Winners |work=The Beat |author=Heidi MacDonald |access-date=November 10, 2006 }} In 2007, Larson won the Eisner Award for Special Recognition (formerly known as "Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition").{{cite web|url=http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/07/28/2007-eisner-award-winners/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120713051936/http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/07/28/2007-eisner-award-winners/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 13, 2012 |title=2007 Eisner Award Winners |work=The Beat |author=Heidi MacDonald |access-date=August 29, 2007 }} She won the Eisner Award again in 2012 for her A Wrinkle in Time adaptation.{{Cite news|url=http://herocomplex.latimes.com/comics/hope-larson-on-bitter-orange-film-four-points-with-rebecca-mock/|title=Hope Larson on 'Bitter Orange' film, 'Four Points' with Rebecca Mock|last=McIntyre|first=Gina|date=2013-08-21|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=2017-11-13|language=en-US}}

Rebecca Kraatz's House of Sugar, Larson's first publishing venture, won the 2007 Doug Wright Award for Best Emerging Talent.{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/artists-honoured-for-comics-hailing-nostalgia-everyday-life-1.683885|title=Artists honoured for comics hailing nostalgia, everyday life|work=CBC.ca|access-date=August 29, 2007 | date=August 18, 2007}}

All Summer Long was a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018.{{Cite web|url=https://us.macmillan.com/author/|title=Hope Larson {{!}} Authors {{!}} Macmillan|website=US Macmillan|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-14}}

• Batgirl, DC Comics, 2016–2018, with Rafael Albuquerque

• Salamander Dream. AdHouse Books, 2005
• Gray Horses. Oni Press, 2006
• Chiggers. Atheneum Books, 2008
• Mercury. Atheneum Books, 2010
• A Wrinkle in Time. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012
• Who is AC with Tintin Pantoja. [Athenum Books], 2013
• Four Points series
• Compass South, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016
• Knife's Edge, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017
• Goldie Vance with Brittney Williams. Boom! Studios, 2016
• Eagle Rock series
• All Summer Long, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018
• All Together Now, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020
• All My Friends, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20071225055349/http://www.hopelarson.com/sxrbw/ "Sex Rainbow,"] March 2004 (originally printed as a deck of cards)
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928164954/http://www.hopelarson.com/compound-eye/ "Compound Eye,"] April 2004
• "Weather Vain," August 2004 (originally printed in Flight Vol. 2)
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928164924/http://www.hopelarson.com/mud/ "Mud,"] February 2005 (originally printed in You Ain't No Dancer #1)
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928164936/http://www.hopelarson.com/illo/nytcomic.gif "Little House in the Big Woods,"] August 2006 (originally printed in the New York Times)
• "When I Was A Slut," March 2006 (published in Project: Romantic)
• [https://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/07/25/opinion/20070725_OPART_1.html "Henry and Elizabeth,"] July 2007 (printed in the New York Times, and later expanded to a minicomic)
• "Cosplay," February 2018 (published by Dark Horse Books in Secret Loves of Geeks)

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• [http://www.hopelarson.com Hope Larson's website]
• [http://www.tuliptreepress.net/ Tulip Tree Press] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126091547/http://www.tuliptreepress.net/ |date=2021-01-26 }}, Larson's publishing imprint
• [http://exhib.hinah.com/larson/ Hope Larson] on hinah exhibitions
• [https://gulfcoastmag.org/index.php?n=2&si=52&s=3271 "Thinking in Comics: A Roundtable on the Present and Future of the Graphic Novel featuring Matt Kindt, Hope Larson, Nate Powell, Dash Shaw, James Sturm, Jillian Tamaki, and Will Wilkinson" in Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts (26.1)]

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