JOHANNA TAYLOR

​ PRONUNCIATION: Joe-Hannah / TAY-ler
PRONOUNS: She/They
EMAIL: johannamation @ gmail dot com
MOST ACTIVE SOCIAL MEDIA: Bluesky, Instagram
CARRD:  johannamation.carrd.co

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BIOGRAPHY
25 WORDS
Johanna is a freelance illustrator, writer, and comic artist. She is the creator of the YA graphic novel THE GHOSTKEEPER, published by Penguin Teen in 2024. 

50 WORDS
Johanna is a freelance illustrator, writer, and comic artist. She is the creator of the YA graphic novel THE GHOSTKEEPER, published by Penguin Teen in 2024. Her past clients include TTRPG publisher 2CGaming, and publishing houses such as Iron Circus Comics, Penguin Random House, EEP and MIT Press.

200 WORDS
Johanna is an American freelance illustrator, concept artist, graphic designer, and comic artist based in Salt Lake City. She is the creator of the debut YA fantasy graphic novel THE GHOSTKEEPER, published by Penguin Putnam in July 2024, which received a starred review from Kirkus. She has a BFA in animation, and focused her studies on concept art, storyboarding, and sequential storytelling. She is an avid player of tabletop RPGs, and contributed artwork to the ENnie award-nominated Uncaged Anthology, The Venture Maidens Campaign Guide, and many more RPG-based publications. She enjoys traveling, reading Victorian classic novels over tea, playing tabletop rolepaying games, and feeding crows. Johanna enjoys creating stories with folkloric themes, mental health narratives, dark comedies, historical fantasies, magical realism, and D&D-style adventures.

Johanna is a member of the Cartoonist Cooperative, and has contributed comics and illustrations to independent publishers such as Limit Break Comics, EEP, and 2CGaming; and publishing houses such as Iron Circus Comics, Penguin Random House, and MIT Press. 

Johanna can be found online, where she extolls the virtues of graphic novels in today’s educational and cultural zeitgeist, at johannamation.com and at @johannamation on most social media platforms.

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