Luke Pearson (born 12 October 1987) is a British illustrator, cartoonist, and comic book writer best known for the '' Hilda'' series of comics for Nobrow Press, and '' Hilda'', the

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series based on the comics. He has also storyboarded episodes of the

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series ''

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'', during its fifth and seventh seasons.

Early life

Luke Pearson was born in

Stockton-on-Tees Stockton-on-Tees is a market town in County Durham, England, with a population of 84,815 at the 2021 UK census. It gives its name to and is the largest settlement in the wider Borough of Stockton-on-Tees. It is part of Teesside and the Tees Val ...

, but grew up mainly in Tamworth. His father worked in IT and his mother was a solicitor's secretary. In their spare time, his father played and recorded music and his mother painted.

Career

Bibliography

His first comic was published in 2008 as part the anthology Ctrl.Alt.Shift Unmasks Corruption, edited by

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. His first published drawing was in Bizarre magazine "of a little kid holding a knife with his mouth all stitched up". In 2010, Nobrow Press published '' Hildafolk'', the first of a series of graphic novels about a young girl's adventures in a world inspired by Scandinavian folklore. In 2018, Netflix released the first season of '' Hilda'', a show based on the Hildafolk series.

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* * Hilda (graphic novel series) 1987 births Artists from County Durham Artists from Staffordshire British comics artists British illustrators British storyboard artists Living people British male television writers Showrunners of animated series The New Yorker people People from Stockton-on-Tees People from Tamworth, Staffordshire Writers from County Durham Writers from Staffordshire {{UK-cartoonist-stub