About
Hi! I’m Liz. I am a cartoonist/illustrator hybrid working out of Brooklyn, NY. I used to draw a comic called My Brain Hurts, which I initially self-published in minicomic format but eventually all the issues were compiled into two books and put out by the nice folks at Microcosm Publishing as My Brain Hurts: Volume One and My Brain Hurts: Volume Two. My Brain Hurts followed the exploits of a group of queer teen punk kids in New York City and no, it is not autobiography. I am frequently heard to describe it as a gayer, punkier version of the Canadian Degrassi TV series, if that helps you at all.
Recently I have been more focused on my webcomic, Freewheel, which updates every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday (hint, hint). Freewheel started as a webcomic on Fall of Autumn‘s website, then reverted to a minicomic, and now it’s a webcomic again, but on my own site. Long story. Anyway, Freewheel is the story of a young girl named Jamie who is in foster care with her brother Jack. Jack goes missing one day and Jamie sets off to find him, embarking on a kind of epic fantasy hobo adventure. That’s the quickest way to describe it, anyway.
Oh, also I graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a major in cartooning back in 2002, if that sort of thing is of value to you.
If hearing about awards and honors is more your bag, well I don’t have any. However, I’ve been nominated for both the Maisie Kukoc Award for Comics Inspiration in 2008 and the Friends of Lulu Kim Yale Award for Best New Talent in 2009. Don’t I sound fancier already?
If you would like to pay me some money to draw something for you, or if you just want to tell me about your day, you can always email me at liz@lizbaillie.com. I can’t guarantee that I’ll reply, but don’t worry – I still love you best of all.
