Sarah Glidden
{{short description|American cartoonist (born 1980)}}
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Sarah Glidden (born in 1980) is an American cartoonist known for her nonfiction comics and graphic novels.
Biography
Glidden was born in Massachusetts,{{cite web |url=https://drawnandquarterly.com/author/sarah-glidden |title=Sarah Glidden |publisher=Drawn & Quarterly |accessdate=2021-01-03 |quote=Sarah Glidden was born in 1980 in Massachusetts and studied painting at Boston University.}} to a family of Jewish background.{{cite web |url=http://sarahglidden.com/how-to-understand-israel-in-60-days-or-less/ |title=How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less |website=sarahglidden.com |accessdate=2021-01-03}}
Glidden studied painting at Boston University. She began making comics in 2006 when she was living at the Flux Factory artist collective in Queens, New York.{{cite web | title=Flux Factory | website=Sarah Glidden | date=2014-03-29 | url=https://www.fluxfactory.org/fluxers/sarah-glidden/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140329075852/http://www.fluxfactory.org/fluxers/sarah-glidden/ | archive-date=2014-03-29 | access-date=2019-03-06}}
She visited Israel as part of a Birthright Israel tour in 2007.{{cite web |url=https://www.haaretz.com/1.5135425 |title=How One U.S. Jew Stopped Worrying, Began Drawing, and Started Loving Israel |author=Nirit Anderman |date=November 5, 2010 |publisher=Haaretz |accessdate=2021-01-03}}{{cite news|last=Cavna|first=Michael|title=Sarah Glidden discusses 'How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less'|newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/sarah-glidden-discusses-how-to-understand-israel-in-60-days-or-less/2011/03/23/ABNUD9KB_story.html}}{{cite web | title=Sarah Glidden Explains 'How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less' [Interview] | website=ComicsAlliance | date=2010-11-02 | url=http://comicsalliance.com/sarah-glidden-how-to-understand-israel-in-60-days-or-less-interview/ | access-date=2019-03-06}}{{cite web|url=http://comicsbeat.com/24-hours-of-womens-cartooning-sarah-glidden/|title=24 Hours of Women's Cartooning: Sarah Glidden|date=29 March 2013|publisher=}} The self-published minicomics she made about that experience won her a 2008 Ignatz Award for "Promising New Talent".{{cite web|title=2008 Ignatz Award Recipients|url=http://www.spxpo.com/2008-ignatz-award-recipients|publisher=Small Press Expo|year=2008}} In 2010, Glidden wrote and illustrated the graphic novel How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less, a full-length exploration of her 2007 trip. The book has subsequently been translated into five languages.
From 2010 to 2012, Glidden was part of Pizza Island, a studio consisting of cartoonists Julia Wertz, Lisa Hanawalt, Domitille Collardey, Karen Sneider, Kate Beaton and Meredith Gran.{{cite web|url=https://nymag.com/arts/books/features/pizza-island-2011-4/|title=To the Comic Drawn|website=NYMag.com}}
Since the publication of How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less, Glidden has been working in comics journalism. Her 20-page comic on Iraqi refugees in Syria was published on the website Cartoon Movement in 2011, and she also did work for the comics journalism publication Symbolia.Weinberg, Jessica. [https://www.cjr.org/the_news_frontier/symbolia.php?page=all "Hello to Symbolia: New iPad-only comics journalism magazine launches today"], Columbia Journalism Review website (Dec. 3, 2012).{{cite web | title=Sarah Glidden's 'The Waiting Room' Documents Iraqi Refugees in Syria | website=ComicsAlliance | date=2011-04-13 | url=http://comicsalliance.com/sarah-glidden-the-waiting-room-syria/ | access-date=2019-03-06}}
Glidden spent a year in Angoulême, France, as an artist in residence at the Maison des Auteurs.{{cite web | author= sarahglidden | title=A Walk Around Angoulême | website=Sarah Glidden – comics, essays, illustration | date=2012-01-22 | url=http://sarahglidden.com/a-walk-around-angouleme/ | access-date=2019-03-06}}
In October 2016, Drawn & Quarterly published Glidden's Rolling Blackouts, the nonfiction story of her travels in 2010 through Turkey, Syria, and Iraq with a small team of journalists. Rolling Blackouts won the 2017 Lynd Ward Prize for Graphic Novel of the Year, sponsored by Penn State University Libraries and administered by the Pennsylvania Center for the Book.{{Cite web|title='Rolling Blackouts' wins 2017 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize {{!}} Penn State University|url=https://news.psu.edu/story/462814/2017/04/14/arts-and-entertainment/rolling-blackouts-wins-2017-lynd-ward-graphic-novel|access-date=2020-11-07|website=news.psu.edu|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Glidden's 'Rolling Blackouts' Wins 2017 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=1297|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-11-07|website=www.publishersweekly.com}}{{Cite web|last=Cahoy|first=Ellysa|title=BookMark: "Rolling Blackouts" By Sarah Glidden|url=https://radio.wpsu.org/post/bookmark-rolling-blackouts-sarah-glidden|access-date=2020-11-07|website=radio.wpsu.org|date=21 September 2017 |language=en}}
Glidden lives in Seattle, Washington.{{cite web | last=Sears | first=Kelton | title=Seattle Comics Journalist Sarah Glidden's New Graphic Novel Isn't Afraid to Admit Journalism Is Weird | website=Seattle Weekly | date=2016-10-05 | url=https://www.seattleweekly.com/arts/seattle-comics-journalist-sarah-gliddens-new-graphic-novel-isnt-afraid-to-admit-journalism-is-weird/ | access-date=2019-03-06}}
Bibliography
- Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq (Drawn & Quarterly, 2016)
- How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less (Drawn & Quarterly, 2016; first edition Vertigo/DC Comics, 2010) {{ISBN|978-1401222345}}
- Small Noises (self-published, 2006)
References
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External links
- {{official website|http://sarahglidden.com}}
- [https://www.drawnandquarterly.com/rolling-blackouts Rolling Blackouts page] at Drawn & Quarterly
- [http://pizzaisland.wordpress.com/ Pizza Island]
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Category:American female comics writers