Natalie Riess

Natalie Riess (born December 7) is an American artist, illustrator, and webcomic creator. She gained public recognition after her comic Space Battle Lunchtime was published by Oni Press in 2016.[1] Her webcomic Dungeon Critters created with Sara Goetter is set to be published by First Second Books in 2020.[2]

Personal life

Riess was born in New York and grew up in Pennsylvania.[3] She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Syracuse University's illustration program.[4] She is currently residing in Austin, Texas.[5]

Riess creates whimsical, colorful stories in digital media or watercolor. Her early comic inspirations were Jeff Smith's Bone and Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim.[6] Her favorite comic artists include Emily Carroll, Gigi D. G., Kerascoët, Sam Bosma, and Juanjo Guarnido.[6] She was also inspired by Studio Ghibli, especially for their depictions of cartoon fantasy food.[6]

Works

Riess created the webcomic Snarlbear in 2012[7] and it was originally intended to be a short project to improve her skills in art and story-creating. She got more serious about the project in 2015 after signing on with Hiveworks Comics.[7]

She created Space Battle Lunchtime, which was an eight issue miniseries that she wrote, illustrated, colored, and lettered all herself. Originally, she was going to pitch it to Hiveworks, however, it was too short. Instead, she submitted it to Oni Press in 2015 and it was Riess' first printed comic. It was published in May 2016.[8]

In 2018, Riess created The Power Within, which is a customizable children's graphic novel that features different versions of three different heroes. Riess wrote and illustrated it, with coloring and painting assistance by Aliza Layne.[9] It was released by Wonderbly in March 2018.[10]

Riess started the comic Dungeon Critters as a collaborative project with Sara Goetter in the summer of 2016, and it is to be published by First Second Books in 2020. Riess is responsible for the backgrounds and colors.[2]

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gollark: It's about as useful as the contents of my "random files" folder, which contains everything from zipped backups of my pastebin to some random textbooks Springer temporarily made free to some papers which looked interesting to HTML file archives of interesting web content.
gollark: There's not even a "README" explaining why any of the stuff in it is there and providing an overview, this *is not readable*.
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References
  1. "Webcomic Wonders: Natalie Riess". WWAC. January 16, 2018. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
  2. "Dungeon Critters". Natalie Riess. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
  3. "Draw Out the Vote | PA". drawoutthevote.com. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
  4. "Talk: Cartoonist, Illustrator Natalie Riess". cnyarts.org. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
  5. "Announcing Dungeon Critters, an Adorable, All-Ages Graphic Novel Adventure from First Second". The B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog. April 19, 2018. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
  6. "An Interview With SPACE BATTLE LUNCHTIME's Natalie Riess". ComicsVerse. July 23, 2017. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
  7. Christianson, Jon Erik. "Quests of Kaleidoscopic Carnage in Natalie Riess's 'Snarlbear'". ComicsAlliance. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
  8. "Riess Cooks Up 'Space Battle Lunchtime' for Oni Press". CBR. April 7, 2016. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
  9. "Power Within". Natalie Riess. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
  10. "Behance". behance.net. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
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