Born: 1951 November 20 in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Biography: Carol Tyler is an American painter, educator, comedian, and eleven-time Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist known for her autobiographical comics. She has received multiple honors for her work including the Cartoonist Studio Prize, the Ohio Arts Council Excellence Award, and was declared a Master Cartoonist at the 2016 Cartoon Crossroads Columbus Festival at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.
Her first comics publication was the 1987 story "Uncovered Property", in Weirdo. Tyler's short slice-of-life stories and her distinctive artwork brought her critical attention as one of a growing number of female artists shaping the direction of underground/alternative comics in North America in the 1980s; she appeared in the influential feminist anthologies Wimmen's Comix and Twisted Sisters. Her first solo book, The Job Thing, was published in 1993. She produced short comics for publications including LA Weekly, Pulse (Tower Records), Strip AIDS, Heck, and Zero Zero.
Tyler also performed live comedy with the Rick & Ruby Patio Show at LA's The Comedy Store, the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, and the Clunie Center in Sacramento.
Tyler teaches a comics class at the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning.
In 2020, Carol Tyler's work was chosen to be a part of the Society of Illustrators Museum exhibit "Women in Comics: Looking Forward, Looking Back".
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Name:
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Carol Tyler
Type: Name at Birth
Given name: Carol Family name: Tyler
Other Names:
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Lisa Lee
Type: Pen Name
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C. Tyler
Type: Common Alternative Name
Given name: C. Family name: Tyler -
Carol Ann Tyler
Type: Name at Birth
Given name: Carol Ann Family name: Tyler
Schools:
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Syracuse University ? to ?
Signatures:
- C. Tyler [generic]
- Carol Ann Tyler [generic]
- Tyler [generic]
Awards:
- 2010: Inkpot Award - [no name]
Awards for Issues:
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2015:
Cartoonist Studio Prize -
Best Print Comic
Soldier's Heart: The Campaign to Understand My WWII Veteran Father (A Daughter's Memoir) (2015 series) -
2020:
Eisner Award -
Best Anthology
Drawing Power: Women's Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival: A Comics Anthology (2019 series)
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