Gabrielle Bell

Gabrielle Bell (born March 24, 1976, in London, England) is a British-American alternative cartoonist known for her surrealist, melancholy semi-autobiographical stories.

As described in The Comics Journal, Bell's "comics persona is that of a barely competent human being ... who stumbles through life, getting into all sorts of awkward and amusing situations.... Even in her own comics, Bell is uncomfortable with being the star, just one of the many contradictions that make her work so interesting."

In addition to her signature comics series Lucky and July Diary, and numerous collections, Bell has been widely anthologized. She was a regular contributor to Fantagraphics' quarterly anthology Mome. She has also contributed to publications such as The New Yorker, McSweeney's, Bookforum, The Believer, Vice, Kramers Ergot (Buenaventura Press), Stereoscomic (Stereoscomic), Bogus Dead (Alternative), Orchid (Sparkplug Comics), The Comics Journal Special Edition 2005 (Fantagraphics), Scheherazade (Soft Skull Press), Linus, and Shout! magazine. Her work has been included in An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories (Yale University Press) and four times in the annual The Best American Comics anthology series.

Bell is the recipient of two Ignatz Awards for her work, and has been nominated for numerous other comics industry awards.