Graphic Novel
Valley Stream, NY
Arielle Jovellanos is an award winning Filipina-American comic artist, illustrator, writer, and occasional teacher & editor. In 2024, she won the UK comic community’s Tripwire Award for Best New Talent. She has illustrated GIRL TAKING OVER: A LOIS LANE STORY for DC Comics, BLACK STAR an original sci-fi graphic novel for Abrams ComicArts, and EVIL THING: A VILLAINS GRAPHIC NOVEL for Disney-Hyperion. In her comic debut, she contributed to the original modern romance anthology FRESH ROMANCE, which went on to be nominated for the Eisner Award, the Harvey Award, and the Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity.
Her illustrations have also been featured in publications by Marvel Comics, New York Historical, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, Simon & Schuster, Little Brown and Company, Audible, BOOM Studios, Oni Press, and Dark Horse Comics among others in her decade long career.
Through her stories, Arielle is interested in using the language and levity of pop culture and fantasy to explore the hidden depths of Filipino-American diaspora identity, history, and the legacy of colonization. Her work has been supported by the Virginia Center for Creative Arts and Redbubble Residency Program. She graduated with a dual degree in Illustration and Fiction Writing from The New School and has taught visual storytelling courses at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.
She would also like a cat.