Colleen Frakes (born in 1980 in Washington) is an American

comics a Media (communication), medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically the form of a sequence of Panel (comics), panels of images. Textual devices such as speech balloons, Glo ...

writer and artist. Originally from

Walla Walla, Washington Walla Walla ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Walla Walla County, Washington, United States. It had a population of 34,060 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, estimated to have decreased to 33,339 as of 2023. The combined populat ...

, Frakes is an alumna of

The Evergreen State College The Evergreen State College is a public liberal arts college in Olympia, Washington. Founded in 1967, it offers a non-traditional undergraduate curriculum in which students have the option to design their own study towards a degree or follow a ...

and the

Center for Cartoon Studies The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) is a two-year institution focusing on sequential art, specifically comics and graphic novels.McNeil Island McNeil Island is an island in the Northwestern United States, in south Puget Sound southwest of Tacoma, Washington. With a land area of , it lies in an area of many inhabited small islands, including Anderson Island (Washington), Anderson Island ...

, Washington, a remote island near McNeil Island Correctional Center. In 2024, Frakes released a graphic novel called ''Knots'', published by HarperCollins.

Awards and recognition

* In 2007, Frakes's book ''Tragic Relief'' was awarded a grant from the

Xeric Foundation The Xeric Foundation is a private, non-profit corporation based in Northampton, Massachusetts, which for twenty years List of Xeric grant winners, awarded self-publishing grants to comic book creators, as well as qualified charitable and nonprofit ...

. * In 2009, Frakes's book ''Woman King'' won an

Ignatz Award The Ignatz Awards recognize outstanding achievements in comics and cartooning by small press creators or creator-owned projects published by larger publishers. They have been awarded each year at the Small Press Expo since 1997, only skipping a ...

's Promising New Talent award.

References

External links

Tragic Relief

Iron Scars
American female comics artists Evergreen State College alumni People from Walla Walla, Washington American comics writers Year of birth missing (living people) Living people {{US-comics-artist-stub