Ellen Forney

Who is Ellen Forney?

Ellen Forney is a cartoonist and teacher based in Seattle, Washington, whose work has been published by Fantagraphics Books and The Stranger, among other publications. She teaches at the Cornish College of the Arts.

In 2007, Forney's I Love Led Zeppelin was nominated for a prestigious Eisner Award as Best Reality-Based Comic. She illustrated Sherman Alexie's novel for young adults entitled The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which won the National Book Award in 2007.

Forney's book Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me: A Graphic Memoir was published by Penguin Books in November 2012. Fantagraphics distributed her previous autobiography, I Was Seven in '75, in 2001. Amongst other work in Forney's career, her collection called Lust was published in 2008.

Forney received her B.A. from Wesleyan University, where she majored in psychology.