Carol Tyler

Quick Facts

Full Name	Carol Tyler
Occupation	Cartoonist
Date Of Birth	Nov 20, 1951(1951-11-20)
Age	73
Birthplace	Chicago
Country	United States
Birth City	Illinois
Horoscope	Scorpio

Carol Tyler Biography

Carol Tyler is one of the most popular and richest Cartoonist who was born on November 20, 1951 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Tyler teaches a comics course at the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning. Her main focus is to teach students how to create comics. Tyler is able to teach the history of comics, from classics of 1930 to 1950s to comic magazines that taught aspects of African American history to originals of Mad Magazine’s first issue. Her current book theme, military services, has been brought into the classroom.

The 1987 comic “Uncovered Property” was her first comics publication. 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. In 1993, her first solo book, The Job Thing was published. She has produced short comics for several publications, including LA Weekly and Pulse (Tower Records), Strip AIDS and Heck, as well as Zero Zero.

Tyler’s piece “The Hannah Story”, published in Drawn and Quarterly, was nominated for a 1995 Eisner Award and is on the Fantagraphics list of Top 100 Comics of the Twentieth Century.

Her second solo work, Late Bloomer, was published by Fantagraphics in 2005. It’s a career highlight collection including both previously published and new material. In his foreword, Robert Crumb says, “She’s tops in my book. One of the best artists alive and working in the comics medium. Her work has the extremely rare quality of authentic HEART. Hers are the only comics that ever brought me to the verge of tears.”

She was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She attended Catholic schools from kindergarten through 12th grade and Middle Tennessee State University, where she earned a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts. Tyler discovered the underground comics movement during her master’s in painting at Syracuse University. This was in the early 1980s. This passion led her to San Francisco’s underground comics scene.

Carol Tyler Net Worth

Carol Tyler is one of the richest Cartoonist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Carol Tyler 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Carol Tyler was born November 20, 1951. She is an American cartoonist, educator, comedian and eleven-time Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist. Her autobiographical comics are well-known. Her work has been recognized with multiple awards, including the Cartoonist Studio Prize, Ohio Arts Council Excellence Award and the Master Cartoonist award at the 2016 Cartoon Crossroads Columbus Festival, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.

Tyler and Justin Green, a cartoonist, live on a farm outside of Augusta KY. They met in San Francisco in 1980 and had a child together, Julia Green.

In 1988, Tyler was awarded the inaugural Dori Seda Memorial Award for Best New Female Cartoonist from Last Gasp.

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In 2016, Tyler spoke at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Art Museum on “… the unique challenges of autobiographical storytelling set in real time with real characters.” She also spoke at The Society of Illustrators.

Facts & Trivia

Carol Ranked on the list of most popular Cartoonist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Carol Tyler celebrates birthday on November 20 of every year.

In 2017 she gave a talk about her process of creating Soldier’s Heart at the Library of Congress, titled “Comics to a ‘T”.