Go, Read: Paul Gravett Profiles Tillie Walden



Paul Gravett has one of the great, if not the greatest, legitimizing eye in the comics business. If he runs a story that hasn't gone public, even if he mentions it just on social media, I consider that story fair game. If Gravett takes time to profile an artist, it connotes a certain institutional interest that no one else can muster with a single article. So this Tillie Walden profile caught my attention, after maybe a half-dozen encounters with the artist in profiles and reviews.

Right up top, Gravett makes a significant note of the fact that the cartoonist is 19 years old. That may or may not be a history-making big deal (there are other cartoonists who were as good as early, but not a ton of them). It will likely end up being a part of her story. The note made me realize that she's an entire Michael DeForge younger than I am, so I bet I would have pointed that out, too. I think the level of visual accomplishment from young artists has only surged in the last 10 years, and we're bound to see more cartoonists make their mark early and continue doing so.

None of that projected theorizing should keep you from enjoying this introduction to an emerging, idiosyncratic talent to watch, which Walden's talent would demand oblivious to what age she might be when she made the art you're seeing. Both of her current projects sound intriguing, and I can't wait to see them.
 
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