Meet the author

Sandra Marrs.

Illustrator · United Kingdom

Sandra Marrs: French-born, Glasgow-based illustrator and half of comics duo Metaphrog, behind the Ghibli-tinged middle-grade fantasy Wilomina; atmospheric, full-colour graphic novels for ages 8 to 12.

Sandra Marrs is the illustrator half of Metaphrog, the Franco-Scottish comics duo she forms with writer John Chalmers. French-born and long based in Glasgow, she draws while Chalmers scripts. In this corpus she illustrates Wilomina: The Land of Dreams and Nightmares, a Studio Ghibli-tinged, full-colour middle-grade fantasy in which a girl is swept into a parallel world of dreams and nightmares, a richly imagined quest about courage, family and facing fear. Marrs and Chalmers are best known for the Louis series and for graphic-novel retellings of fairy tales, and their work has drawn Eisner Award nominations. A distinctive contemporary graphic-novel illustrator for ages 8 to 12 who love atmospheric, painterly comics.