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About
Mollie Ray is a comic artist, illustrator and author from Lancashire. Her debut graphic novel giant was published in 2024 with Faber & Faber, paperback released August 2025. Ray's work has been featured by Creative Boom, The AOI, Bookmunch, Foyles and more. Winner of the Break Out Talent category of the Broken Frontier Awards 2026 and recently appointed the first Young Comics Laureate for 2025/26 by Comics Youth and The Lakes International Comic Arts Festival. Ray has also published multiple short form comics, including work for the Scottish Book Trust and the BBC. As well as creating comics, they work as a creative facilitator - notably in 2025, undertaking projects in prisons, with care-experienced young people, regular youth-led projects with Escape2Make and visiting Palestine to help 13 Palestinian artists turn their stories into comics. Represented by Literary Agent, James Spackman of The BKS Agency. Clients include Faber & Faber, BBC, Scottish Book Trust, Art Fund, WWF, RSPCB, Cancer Research UK and more. Awards and Recognitions Young Comics Laureate - Comics Youth (2025-26) Winner of the 'Break Out Talent' category of The Broken Frontier Awards (2024) Arts Council England National Lottery - Grant (2022) The Society of Authors - Grant (2021) One of Broken Frontiers ‘6 To Watch in 2021’ (2021) Christopher Robins Trust - Grant (2015) Interviews and Reviews The Irish Times - 'giant' Review (2024). Read here. The Bookseller - 'giant' Review (2024). Read here. Bookmunch - 'giant' Review (2024). Read here. Foyles - 'Making giant' Article (2024). Read here. Also featured in Foyles 'Top Ten Reads.' Comics Review - 'giant' Review (2024). Read here. Graphic Medicine - 'giant' Review (2024). Read here. Broken Frontier - 'giant' Review (2024). Read here. Faber Journal - Article (2024). Read here. Foyles 'Top Ten Reads For June' (2024). Read here. Bloomsbury Writers & Artists Programme - Article (2024). Read here. Bookseller - 'giant' Press Release (2024). Read here. LDComics - Talk (2022) Watch here. Creative Boom - Interview (2022). Read here. The AOI - Interview (2022). Read here. Creating Comics UK - Interview, Twitch live stream (2022) LICAF Podcast - Interview (2022). Listen here. Broken Frontier - Interview (2021). Read here. At Any Given Time, Broken Frontier - Review (2021). Read here. Two Stones, Broken Frontier - Review (2021). Read here. |