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Tula Lotay

Tula Lotay is the pen name of Lisa Wood, an English comic book artist.[1] She is known for illustrating Supreme: Blue Rose, written by Warren Ellis for Image Comics,[2][3] and for founding the Thought Bubble Festival, the UK's largest comics convention.[4] She was also an artist for Si Spencer's eight-part series Bodies, published by Vertigo.[5]

Biography

Lotay grew up in Batley, West Yorkshire.[6] She was adopted[citation needed] when she was a young child and had dyslexia.[6] She attended Dewsbury College and the University of Bradford.[6]

In 2007, while an employee of the local comics and board game retailer Travelling Man,[7] she founded the annual Thought Bubble Festival to promote comic books to the general public, especially children with reading difficulties.[5][6] Before becoming a comics artist, she was on the British Comic Awards Committee but resigned in 2013 to pursue a full-time art career.[citation needed]

Her first work was the cover art for Elephantmen #5 (2012), and in American Vampire: Anthology #1 (2013). She has also contributed to Red Sonja.[2]

Tula Lotay looking up and smiling
Lotay at WonderCon 2022

She illustrated issue #13 of The Wicked + The Divine, which was published in 2015[2] and nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book.[8]

Lotay and her Supreme collaborator Warren Ellis announced in 2015 that they were working on a new comic, Heartless. As of early 2018, Heartless has yet to be released, but work was in progress.[9]

In early 2022, Lotay stepped down as manager of the Thought Bubble Festival in order to concentrate on her art career and family.[7]

Awards

In 2019, in recognition for her work in creating the Thought Bubble Festival, Lotay was awarded the Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award [10][11] at the San Diego Comic-Con Eisner Awards. Upon receiving the award, Lotay said:

"It’s such an honour to be awarded the Bob Clampett Award by Comic-Con International. Although given in my name, this award is really for everyone who works tirelessly to make Thought Bubble what it is; a lot of whom are volunteers, who work so hard for the love of the medium of comics. I feel I’m accepting this award on behalf of them. For Clark, Martha, Bis, Amy, Steve, Pete, Nabil, Mikey, Chloe and Billie, and the hundreds of volunteers, exhibitors and guests who’ve supported us over the years and helped make the show what it is. We are so excited to continue our outreach programme and make it bigger and better than ever."[12]

Bibliography

Interior art

DC Comics/Vertigo Comics

Dynamite Entertainment

Image Comics

Marvel Comics

Comixology Originals

Cover art

Archie Comics

Boom! Studios

Dark Horse Comics

Darryl Makes Comics

DC Comics/Vertigo

Dynamite Entertainment

Great Beast

IDW Publishing

Image Comics

Independent

Marvel Comics

Titan Books

Valiant Comics

Art books

References

  1. ^ . Image Comics https://imagecomics.com/creators/view/tula-lotay. Retrieved 27 March 2017. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ^ a b c Kross, Karin L. (17 July 2015). ""Working in a Cupboard" — An Interview with Comic Artist Tula Lotay". Tor.com. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
  3. ^ Wood, Lilith (5 March 2015). "State of the Art: Tula Lotay on Communicating Emotion and Confusion in Supreme: Blue Rose". Paste Magazine. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
  4. ^ "Thought Bubble: Thousands of people in Leeds attend UK's largest comic book festival". Yorkshire Evening Post. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
  5. ^ a b "Leeds comic book queen is picture perfect". Yorkshire Evening Post. 14 August 2014. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
  6. ^ a b c d Freeman, Sarah. "Bubble rap: How comic books changed our lives: Struggling to read as a child, Lisa Wood found escape through comic books. Now an artist, she tells Sarah Freeman about the Thought Bubble festival which is devoted to comic art," The Yorkshire Post (16 November 2014).
  7. ^ a b Lomax, Claire. "Ilkley comic artist Tula Lotay steps down from Thought Bubble convention," The Telegraph and Argus (3 Feb. 2022).
  8. ^ "Outstanding Comic Book". GLAAD Media Awards. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
  9. ^ "The Image Comics Expo Announcements That Went Missing In Action, Lost And Found..." Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movie, TV News. 13 May 2016. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
  10. ^ "Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award". 5 December 2012.
  11. ^ "Newsarama | GamesRadar+". 24 November 2023.
  12. ^ "Thought Bubble Founder, Lisa Wood, honoured with Humanitarian Award". 31 May 2019.
  13. ^ "Female Western 'Girl With No Name' in the Works". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 6 October 2018.

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