A Cartoonist’s Diary

Alison Wilgus: Day One

Alison Wilgus is a Brooklyn-based writer, editor and cartoonist who's been working in comics for over a decade. Most of her professional work has been writing for comics, including two works of graphic non-fiction with First Second Books about aviation history and human spaceflight — Science Comics: Flying Machines with illustrator Molly Brooks, and The Mars Challenge with illustrator Wyeth Yates. Her latest work is Chronin, a queer science-fiction graphic novel duology from Tor books and her solo debut. In her spare time, she co-hosts a podcast about comics publishing called “Graphic Novel TK” with Gina Gagliano. She tweets and Instagrams as @AliWilgus and you can find many of her comics and stories at alisonwilgus.com