Hannah Berry is an award-winning comics creator, scriptwriter and campaigner. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was appointed UK Comics Laureate 2019-21. Editions of her books have been published in the USA, France, Holland, Serbia and Italy, and she has been a guest of and speaker at over 150 comics, literature and arts festivals and events around the world.

Berry’s first graphic novel BRITTEN & BRÜLIGHTLY was published by Jonathan Cape in 2008, with the French edition chosen for the OFFICIAL SELECTION of the 2010 Angoulême International Comics Festival. Her second graphic novel ADAMTINE was published in 2012 and her third, LIVESTOCK, in 2017, both by Jonathan Cape to some critical acclaim. LIVESTOCK won Berry a BEST WRITER AWARD at the 2017 Broken Frontier Awards and was nominated in the BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL category. She has contributed comics to anthologies and publications from 2000AD to the New England Journal of Medicine, was a cartoonist for New Statesman and Prospect Magazine, and wrote several episodes of the multi-award-winning scripted podcast THE REZ.

In her role as Laureate she instigated and carried out the first national survey of UK comics creators to gain a better understanding of the industry and those working within it. This led to the founding of the Society of Authors’ Comics Creators Network – of which she is on the steering committee – which advocates for creators and offers professional support. She is also 1/7th of the Comics Cultural Impact Collective (CCIC), raising awareness of the cultural impact of comics and making the case for better funding, support and recognition, and is a trustee of the Cartoon Museum.

Berry is half Ecuadorian and lives in Brighton with her partner, daughter, cat and tortoise. She is extremely partial to cashews; the Ferrari of the nut world.

Email: contact@hannahberry.co.uk Film/TV rights: Emma Topping, Viv Loves Film

SOLO GRAPHIC NOVELS

Livestock – Jonathan Cape, UK 2017

Adamtine – Jonathan Cape, UK 2012

Britten & Brülightly – Jonathan Cape, UK 2008

SELECTED ANTHOLOGIES & COLLABORATIVE WORKS

The Rez – (writer: comic & scripted podcast) Gen Z Media & Wondery, UK/USA, 2021 – 2023

Mental Health for Creative Freelancers – (co-producer, artist) UK 2022

Prospect Magazine – (cartoonist) UK, 2018 – 2021

Planet Divoc-91 – (writer/artist) Wowbagger Productions, UK/South Africa/India, 2020

We Shall Fight Until We Win – (writer/artist) 404 Ink/BHP, UK, 2018

Scream & Misty Special: ‘Return to the Sentinels – (writer) , Rebellion, UK, 2017

New Statesman – (cartoonist) UK, 2016 – 2017

The Corbyn Comic Book – (writer/artist) SelfMadeHero, UK, 2017

2000AD FCBD Special: ‘Fiends of the Eastern Front: Fodder – (writer) Rebellion, UK, 2016

Above the Dreamless Dead – (artist) First Second Books, USA, 2014

IDP:2043 – (artist) Freight Books/Edinburgh International Book Festival, UK, 2014

Hoax: Psychosis Blues – (artist) Ziggy’s Wish, UK, 2014

La Villa Sur La Falaise – (writer/artist) Éditions Casterman, France, 2010

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