Leela Corman
| Leela Corman | |
|---|---|
 Leela Corman at the Miami Book Fair in 2012 | |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist |
Notable works | Unterzakhn |
| Awards | Xeric Award, 1999 |
| Spouse(s) | Tom Hart |
| LeelaCorman.com | |
Leela Corman is a cartoonist, illustrator, and Middle Eastern dancer.[1] She created the 2012 graphic novel Unterzakhn, which follows the lives of twin sisters growing up in the tenements of New York City's Lower East Side at the turn of the last century. Unterzakhn was published by Schocken Books and nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the Eisner Award, and Le Prix Artemisia. Portions of Unterzakhn were serialized in HEEB magazine and Lilith magazine.
Corman studied painting, printmaking, and illustration at Massachusetts College of Art. She self-published three issues of the minicomic, Flimflam, while still in college, and won a 1999 Xeric Grant for the graphic novel Queen’s Day.
Her illustrations have appeared on album covers and for PBS, The New York Times, and BUST Magazine.[2] She teaches at the Sequential Artists Workshop (SAW) in Gainesville, Florida, a low-cost school for comic arts and the University of Florida.[3]
Corman is married to fellow cartoonist (and SAW faculty member) Tom Hart.[4] Hart's book Rosalie Lightning (St. Martin's Press, 2016) is named after their daughter, who died suddenly when she was almost two, and is about Hart and Corman's grief and their attempts to make sense of their life afterwards.[5] The couple have since had another child.[5]
Bibliography
- Flimflam (self-published)
- Subway Series (Alternative Comics, 2002) ISBN 978-1-891867-14-9
- "Too Much Love," in Put the Book Back on the Shelf: A Belle & Sebastian Anthology (Image Comics, 2006)
- Unterzakhn (Schocken Books, 2012)
References
- ↑ "Leela Corman Talks About Her "Unterzakhn"". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved 2016-03-21.
- ↑ "Bio". Leela Corman. Retrieved 2016-03-21.
- ↑ "The Sequential Artists Workshop » facultybios". sequentialartistsworkshop.org. Retrieved 2016-03-22.
- ↑ Fitzgerald, Leah (September 2003). "A Cartoonist Couple Quizzed: Leah Fitzgerald Chats Up Tom Hart and Leela Corman". ComixTalk.
- 1 2 MacDonald, Heidi. "Surviving the Loss of a Child Through a Graphic Novel," Publishers Weekly (Jan 08, 2016).
External links
- Official website
- Corman, Leela. "PTSD: The Wound That Never Heals: Coming back to life after losing my first child," Nautilus (Apr. 16. 2015)