15 Facts About Tillie Walden

Tillie Walden was born on 1996 and is an American cartoonist who has published several graphic novels and a webcomic.

Tillie Walden is named after her paternal grandmother, an artist who died before Tillie Walden was born.

Tillie Walden began putting her comics and drawings on her website, and was discovered while still in high school by British publisher Avery Hill Publishing, who worked with Tillie Walden to publish her first graphic novel, The End of Summer.

Tillie Walden won the 2016 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Artist for The End of Summer.

Tillie Walden won the 2016 Ignatz Award for Promising New Talent for I Love This Part.

In 2020, Tillie Walden published Alone in Space: A Collection, which compiled her previously published I Love This Part and A City Inside, as well as several previously unpublished comics, sketches, and works from magazines, including her piece What It's Like To Be Gay In An All-Girls Middle School.

In 2021, Tillie Walden was approached by Skybound to write a trilogy of graphic novels centering Clementine from The Walking Dead.

In 2023, Tillie Walden illustrated the graphic novel Junior High, written by Tegan and Sara.

In May 2024, Tillie Walden took up residency at the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History to write a graphic novel about the relationship between Sylvia Drake and Charity Bryant.

The Sheldon Museum has many records from the couple, which Tillie Walden used to write the novel.

Tillie Walden has known she was a lesbian since she was 5.

Tillie Walden has spoken of her father's influence on her entrance into the comics industry.

Tillie Walden is a graduate of the Center for Cartoon Studies.

Tillie Walden is married to fellow graphic novelist Emma Hunsinger, whom she met when they were both attending the Center for Cartoon Studies.

On October 4,2023, the same day as Clementine: Book Two was released, Tillie Walden gave birth to her and Hunsinger's first son, Walter.