Zoe Thorogood Explained

Birth Date:7 June 1998
Birth Place:Bradford, England, United Kingdom
Occupation:Comics artist
Years Active:2019-present

Zoe Thorogood is a British comic book author and artist. She is the author of The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott and It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth, as well as a run of Hack/Slash through 2022-to-2023, in which series creator Tim Seeley resumed writing. In addition to her work on independent comics, she also co-created the character of Spider-UK (Zarina Zahari) together with Ramzee for Marvel Comics and wrote multiple stories in anthologies published by DC Comics.

Early life and education

Thorogood was born on 7 June 1998 in Bradford, England.[1] She studied video game art at De Montfort University in Leicester, which led her to an internship in 2017 creating design concepts at Splash Damage. She continued her studies at Teesside University between 2018 and 2019.[1] [2]

Career

In 2019, Thorogood began working in comics as a freelance artist. She attended a convention organised in London by Image Comics, where the publisher was impressed by the artist's portfolio, and introduced her to including Kieron Gillen, approved her for "the future of comics".[3] [4]

Her first graphic novel, The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott, was published in 2020. While she has suffered from sight problems since the age of 3, in 2017 she learned that her retina was slowly being detached, and that she could eventually go blind.[5] Although inspired by her personal story, the character of Billie Scott is not an incarnation of Thorogood, as she would later explain in her second graphic novel.[6]

Thorogood's second graphic novel, It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth, was published in 2022.[7] It's Lonely... is an autobiography, focusing on Zoe's life through the last six months of 2021. It was not originally intended for publication; it was written during a depressive period. Finally, she decided to share a few illustrations on the Internet. She received messages from readers who identified with her work and her experience and felt that her work deserved to become a full-fledged book.[8]

Her next comic was Hack/Slash: Back to School, set in the universe created by Tim Seeley.[9] She is also the writer of the comic Life Is Strange: Forget-Me-Not, adapted from the video game , with art by Claudia Leonard and Andrea Izzo, published by Titan Comics.[10]

Works

As writer and artist

Writing

Art

Cover art

Others

Awards

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Colin . 2023-07-17 . Throgood, Zoe . 2024-01-24 . Not Just Hockney . en-GB.
  2. Web site: Zoe Thorogood . 2024-01-24 . Babelio . fr.
  3. Barnett . David . 2023-07-16 . 'The real deal': young UK graphic artist nominated for five 'comic book Oscars' . . en-GB . 0029-7712 . 2024-01-24.
  4. Web site: Hetzler . Alex . 2023-10-30 . Zoe Thorogood is the future of comics . 2024-01-27 . The Michigan Daily . en-US.
  5. Web site: 2024-01-24 . 2022-12-21 . fr-FR . Mccoylily . ITW – Zoe Thorogood: Dans les yeux de billie scott . Le cabinet de mccoy.
  6. Book: Zoe Thorogood . It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth . Hi Comics . 2024 . 978-2-37887-114-7 . 200 . fr.
  7. Web site: 2024-01-24 . It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth de Zoe Thorogood (Billie Scott) arrive début 2024 chez HiComics ! . www.comicsblog.fr.
  8. Web site: 2024-01-29 . 2024-01-29 . fr . Que vaut la BD "It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth" ? . L'Éclaireur Fnac.
  9. Web site: Image Comics' Hack/Slash Recruits Eisner Nominee Zoe Thorogood for New Series . 2024-05-24 . Comics . en.
  10. Web site: Comments . Rich Johnston . 2023-07-24 . Zoe Thorogood To Write Titan Comics' Life Is Strange . 2024-01-27 . bleedingcool.com . en.
  11. Web site: Brooke . David . 2024-05-20 . 'Lilith' #1 kicking off Vault Comics' new mature label Threshold . 2024-10-14 . AIPT . en-us.
  12. Web site: MacDonald . Heidi . 2023-05-17 . 2023 Eisner Awards Nominations announced . 2024-05-23 . The Beat . en-US.

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