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Tillie Walden.

Writer & illustrator · United States · b. 1996

Tillie Walden: Eisner-winning American cartoonist (Spinning, On a Sunbeam) whose picture-book work includes My Parents Won't Stop Talking!; inventive, expressive comics and picture books for ages 3 and up.

Tillie Walden is an acclaimed American cartoonist, born in 1996, and one of the most celebrated young voices in graphic storytelling, the author-illustrator of memoir and graphic novels including Spinning, On a Sunbeam and Are You Listening?, and a winner of the Eisner Award. In this corpus she illustrates My Parents Won't Stop Talking!, a wildly expressive, laugh-out-loud picture book (written by Emma Hunsinger) about a child's exquisite agony as her two mums settle in for an endless grown-up chat while the park waits. Walden's art is elastic, inventive and full of feeling, whether in sweeping graphic novels or comic picture books. A major contemporary comics creator whose picture-book work suits ages 3 to 7.