Colleen Frakes is an American

comics a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically the form of a sequence of panels of images. Textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and onomatopoeia can indicate ...

writer and artist. Originally from

Olympia, Washington Olympia is the capital of the U.S. state of Washington and the county seat and largest city of Thurston County. It is southwest of the state's most populous city, Seattle, and is a cultural center of the southern Puget Sound region. European ...

, Frakes is an alumna of

The Evergreen State College The Evergreen State College is a public liberal arts college in Olympia, Washington. Founded in 1967, it offers a non-traditional undergraduate curriculum in which students have the option to design their own study towards a degree or follow a p ...

and the Center for Cartoon Studies.

Awards and recognition

* In 2007, Frakes's book ''Tragic Relief'' was awarded a grant from the

Xeric Foundation The Xeric Foundation is a private, nonprofit corporation based in Northampton, Massachusetts, which for twenty years awarded self-publishing grants to comic book creators, as well as qualified charitable and nonprofit organizations. The Xeric Fou ...

. * In 2009, Frakes's book ''Woman King'' won an Ignatz Award's Promising New Talent award.

References

External links

Tragic Relief

Iron Scars
American female comics artists Evergreen State College alumni People from Olympia, Washington American comics writers Year of birth missing (living people) Living people {{US-comics-artist-stub