Mandy Ord

{{Short description|Australian artist (born 1974)}}

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| birth_date = 1974

| birth_place = Sydney, NSW

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| nationality = Australian

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| field = Illustrator/Cartoonist

| training = Bachelor of Visual Arts, Australian National University (ANU) Canberra School of Art, Canberra, ACT

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Mandy Ord (born 1974) is a Melbourne-based comic artist. Her work has appeared in The Age, Meanjin, The Australian Rationalist magazine, Voiceworks, Tango, Going Down Swinging and Red Leaves / 紅葉.{{cite web |url=http://www.mwf.com.au/2009/content/mwf_2009_standard.asp?name=OrdM |title=Mandy Ord | Melbourne Writers Festival |accessdate=2009-09-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090830144049/http://www.mwf.com.au/2009/content/mwf_2009_standard.asp?name=OrdM |archivedate=2009-08-30 }} Since 2009 Ord has also had a regular comic strip published in Trouble (magazine). In 2004, she was nominated for the Ledger Award for Small Press Title of the Year for her comic Dirty Little Creep.Ledger Award{{Cite book|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/23314928|title=Dirty little creep|last=Ord|first=Mandy|date=2004|publisher=[Eltham, Vic. : Mandy Ord]|language=English}}

Ord's earliest published work was in her own book Wilnot in 1994.{{Cite web|url=http://www.daao.org.au/main/read/4910|title = Mandy Ord :: Biography at :: At Design and Art Australia Online}} Her first graphic novel was a collaboration with Amber Carvan, Brick Dog and Other Stories 2002,{{Cite book|url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/672803|title=Brick dog and other stories|last1=Carvan|first1=Amber|last2=Ord|first2=Mandy|date=2002|publisher=Pluto Press|isbn=978-1-86403-190-4|location=Annandale, N.S.W}} followed by her first solo graphic novel Rooftops 2007, published by Findlay Lloyd.{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/archived/bookshow/rooftops-mandy-ords-graphic-novel/3256290|title=Rooftops: Mandy Ord's graphic novel|date=2008-04-03|website=Radio National|language=en-AU|access-date=2019-04-26}}{{Cite book|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/46365650|title=Rooftops : a graphic novel|last=Ord|first=Mandy|date=2007|publisher=Braidwood, N.S.W. : Finlay Lloyd|isbn=978-0-9775677-2-0|language=English}} Ord is also the author of minicomics Ordinary Eyeball (2006){{Cite book|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/23237541|title=Ordinary eyeball|last=Ord|first=Mandy|date=2006|publisher=[Melbourne] : Mark Selan|language=English}} and Sensitive Creatures (2004).{{Cite book|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/23150129|title=Sensitive creatures|last=Ord|first=Mandy|date=2005|publisher=[Eltham, Vic.] : Mandy Ord|language=English}}

Ord's book, When One Person Dies the Whole World Is Over, was longlisted for the 2020 Stella Prize.{{Cite web|url=https://www.booktopia.com.au/blog/2020/02/06/see-the-2020-stella-prize-longlist/|title=See the 2020 Stella Prize longlist!|date=2020-02-06|website=The Booktopian|language=en-AU|access-date=2020-02-06}}