Emily Carroll

Emily Carroll (age 37–38) is a comics author from Ontario, Canada. Carroll started making comics in 2010, and her horror webcomic His Face All Red went viral around Halloween of 2010. Since then, Carroll has created comics for various comics anthologies, and she has won several awards, including an Ignatz and two Eisners.

Emily Carroll
Carroll in 2018
BornLondon, Ontario
NationalityCanadian
Spouse(s)Kate Craig
www.emcarroll.com

Career

Emily Carroll created illustrations for 2013 video game Gone Home.

Carroll is educated as an animator. She began drawing comics in 2010.[1]

Webcomics

Carroll drew and published her first comic on her website in May 2010.[2] On October 31, 2010, her third webcomic, His Face All Red, went viral.[1][3][4] Carroll has continued to published short horror comics on her website. For her 2014 webcomic The Hole the Fox Did Make, Carroll chose for a limited format to see how she could create unease in a limited space. Furthermore, she created this webcomic during breaks between other work, and the format facilitated drawing in "small chunks".[5] Another webcomic, Margot's Room, presents the reader with a child's bedroom; clicking on objects in the room presents a part of the story. A poem at the start suggest a reading order, but the comic can be read in any order.[3]

Print

Carroll's work has been showcased in a number of comic anthologies, including "Explorer: Mystery Boxes," "Fairy Tale Comics," "Creepy" and "The Witching Hour."[5]

In 2014, Carroll published Through the Woods, an anthology book of four original stories and an adaptation of His Face All Red for print format.[5][6] According to CBR, this was first announced in 2011 and was to be titled "His Face All Red and Other Stories".[2] When talking about adapting a webcomic to print, Carroll said, "it was difficult... I think it works pretty good, though I think it might be more successful on the screen, to be honest. Because page turns became really important. With horror comics or any sort of suspense comics, if you have a set up for a scare on the left-hand page and the scare itself on the right-hand page the effect would disappear immediately."[3] Through the Woods won Carroll Eisner,[7] Ignatz,[8] and British Fantasy[9] awards.

Carroll illustrated the 2015 graphic novel Baba Yaga's Assistant from Candlewick Press and a graphic novel adaptation of Speak.[10]

Illustrations for other works

Carroll created illustrations for the 2013 indie video games Gone Home[11] and The Yawhg.[12]

Reviews

The critic Joe McCulloch said of Carroll's His Face All Red, tells me: “Even in the late ’80s, guys like Stephen Bissette were developing forums like Taboo which were specifically designed to counteract the traditionalism of comics horror … ‘His Face All Red’ seemed a break from that when it hit me. And it hit a lot of people.”

Comic Book Resources articles have described Carroll as a "webcomics wunderkind"[2] and "a master of atmosphere and mood".[5] They have called her webcomics "deliciously dark", praising her "vibrant colors, exquisite pacing, and genuinely creepy, genuinely bleak stories of murder and monstrousness".[2] The magazine Room said of her work, "Her beautiful, yet delicately sinister, fairy-tale comics evoke a feeling of isolation that twists into suspense as the reader clicks and scrolls through a horror story and that lingers in the mind long after the final panel." It also highlighted themes of isolation and guilt that appear throughout her work, as well as her preference for ambiguous endings.[3] Paste Magazine called her comic The Hole the Fox Did Make one of the best webcomics of 2014.[13]

Awards

  • Emily Carroll won two Joe Shuster Awards in the category "Outstanding Web Comics Creator", in 2011 and 2012 respectively.[14][15]
    • The 2011 award recognised her works of the previous year, which were His Face All Red, Dream Journals, The Death of José Arcadio, Out the Door, and The Hare’s Bride. The 2012 award noted her work Margot's Room.
  • At the 2014 Doug Wright Awards, Carroll won the Pigskin Peters Award, which "recognizes the best in experimental, non-traditional or avant-garde comics". She was also nominated for the Doug Wright Spotlight Award in 2012.[16]
  • Carroll won two Eisner Awards in 2015: one in the "Best Graphic Album-Reprint" category for Through the Woods, and one in the "Best Short Story" category for When the Darkness Presses.[7]
  • Carroll won an Ignatz Award in the "Outstanding Artist" category in 2015 for Through the Woods.[8]
  • Carroll won the British Fantasy Award for "Best Comic/Graphic Novel" in 2015 for Through the Woods.[9]

Personal life

Emily Carroll is aged 37–38. She was born in London, Ontario. Her parents divorced when she was in high school. As of 2014, she is based in Stratford, Ontario. She is married to her wife, Kate Craig.[1][3]

Bibliography

  • Through the Woods. New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books. 2014. ISBN 9781442465961, OCLC 885365003
  • "Ann by the Bed" (Frontier #6). San Francisco: Youth in Decline. 2014. OCLC 915825979
  • Marika McCoola; Emily Carroll (2015). Baba Yaga's Assistant. Somerville: Candlewick Press. ISBN 9780763669614, OCLC 1003143156.
  • "Beneath the Dead Oak Tree". Leeds: Shortbox. 2018. OCLC 1079067301
  • Laurie Halse Anderson; Emily Carroll (2018). Speak: The Graphic Novel. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 9780374300289, OCLC 974448720
  • When I Arrived at the Castle. Toronto: Koyama Press. 2019. ISBN 9781927668689, OCLC 1106371579

References

  1. Randle, Chris (7 August 2014). "Monsters at the Door". Hazlitt. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
  2. Collins, Sean T. (5 December 2011). "Emily Carroll's His Face All Red and Other Stories headed to boookstores via Simon & Schuster". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
  3. Hubbard, Taryn (2014). "An interview with Emily Carroll: A Fairy-Tale Teller in the Digital Age". Room Magazine. Archived from the original on 13 June 2016. Retrieved 6 November 2020.
  4. "emily carroll". LiveJournal. Archived from the original on 2 November 2010.
  5. Dueben, Alex (21 August 2014). "Emily Carroll Walks "Through the Woods"". Comic Book Resources.
  6. Woerner, Meredith (17 July 2014). "Exclusive Horror Story From The Absolutely Chilling Through The Woods". io9.
  7. Whitbrook, James (11 July 2015). "Here Are Your Eisner 2015 Winners!". io9. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
  8. "Your 2015 Ignatz Award Winners!". The Comics Reporter. 20 September 2015.
  9. Alverson, Brigid (26 October 2015). "Comics A.M. | Emily Carroll's 'Through the Woods' wins British Fantasy Award". Comic Book Resources.
  10. Lodge, Sally (1 August 2013). "'Speak' to Be Adapted as a Graphic Novel". Publishers Weekly.
  11. Smith, Zack (10 September 2014). "Emily Carroll Takes Us THROUGH THE WOODS". Newsarama. Archived from the original on 13 September 2014.
  12. Chambers, Becky (31 May 2013). "Rally Your Friends and Face The Yawhg, A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Game With Artwork by Emily Carroll". The Mary Sue.
  13. Jackson, Frannie (17 December 2014). "The 20 Best Webcomics of 2014". Paste Magazine.
  14. "2011 Nominees and Winners". The Joe Shuster Awards. 18 June 2011.
  15. Boyd, Kevin A. (15 September 2012). "The 2012 Joe Shuster Award winners". The Joe Shuster Awards.
  16. "Past Winners". Doug Wright Award.
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