Kelly Thompson fell in love with comics at the old age of 16.

Despite this love, she ended up studying Graphic Design at the University of Arizona for two years immediately following her graduation.  It didn’t take her long to get back to comics however and in 1997, she was accepted to, and began attending, The Savannah College of Art & Design.

Kelly graduated cum laude from SCAD and moved to Los Angeles with the vague idea of seeking her fortune in Storyboarding (having quickly forsaken her beloved comics like a coward for something more lucrative).  After five years in L.A., while privately working on Shiksa, a 160-page graphic novel about an obsessive relationship thwarted by religion (among other things), Kelly moved to Manhattan.

While working on Shiksa Kelly also began seriously writing poetry, short fiction, and her first novel.  Kelly’s poetry has been published in The Bukowski Review, The Main Street Rag, remark., and the chapbook Aggressive Behaviour #2 and her short fiction has been featured in Pearl (see bibliography for details).

Currently, Kelly is working exclusively with an agent on revisions to her first novel.  She continues to write and submit her short fiction to various literary magazines and is a regular contributor to the TV review blog The Best Shows You’re Not Watching.  Kelly has recently resumed work on her graphic novel and is charting the development of her project The Jilted League on this blog.

In her spare time Kelly cures world hunger, dreams of taking long baths (she lives in New York and has a standard issue NYC itty bitty bathtub) and thinks of good reasons not to go to the gym (there are many).

Feel free to contact her directly, especially if you want to give her money or compliments (yay!) at: 1979semifinalist[at]gmail[dot]com.

*Please note: All the drawings, cartoons, etc., on this site are the property of Kelly Thompson, unless otherwise noted, and may not be used without permission. Thanks!