About

Glynnis Fawkes is the co-author with Eric H Cline and illustrator of 1177 BC: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed (Princeton University Press). She is also the author-illustrator of Charlotte Brontë before Jane Eyre (Little, Brown) and Persephone’s Garden (Secret Acres), among other books, and her comics have appeared on the website of The New Yorker. She has worked as an archaeological illustrator around the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean, and teaches at the Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont.

Represented by the Anjali Singh Agency.

Education: BA in Arts and Letters form University of Oregon (Honors), BFA from Pacific NW College of Art, and MFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University.

I began working on excavations as illustrator in 1998 and have worked on sites in Greece, Crete, Turkey, Israel, Cyprus, Syria, and Lebanon.  My illustrations have been published in many books and articles.

A Fulbright to Cyprus in 1999 led to the publication of two books in 2001, Archaeology Lives in Cyprus (Bank of Cyprus) and Cartoons of Cyprus (Moufflon Press)    

Many of my personal comics reflect a career in archaeology and family life.  Greek Diary is about working on a dig and traveling with children and won the Society of Illustrators MoCCA Arts Festival Award in 2017.  My drawings about my children were published regularly on Muthamagazine.com  and were nominated for an Ignatz Award at the Small Press Expo in 2016.

Another project, Alle Ego (out of print) is about my first trip to Greece and how it launched my work in the direction of archaeology, and won the Society of Illustrators MoCCA Arts Festival Award in 2016.  I drew most of it during a residency at La Maison des Auteurs in Angouleme in 2015. I returned for another residency in 2018 and was set to go again in 2020.

In 2019 I joined the faculty at the venerable Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, VT.

I’m currently working on a middle grade adventure set after the eruption of Thera in Late Bronze Age Greece. For this project I’ve won a Vermont Arts Council Grant in 2019 and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts Traveling Fellowship and a Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant in 2020, and have had residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the Ragdale Foundation.