Michelle Ollie

contact: michelleollie at gmail dot com

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Ollie is a designer, illustrator, educator, and co-founder of The Center for Cartoon Studies. Comics have been a constant in her life, starting early on when she delivered the Milwaukee Journal Sunday Comics. With dyslexia, she credits comics as the key to learning how to read—and she’ll forever be in love with them for that reason. Her lifelong practice of creating and learning led her to co-found The Center for Cartoon Studies with cartoonist James Sturm, where she now serves as president. When she’s not helping shape the next generation of cartoonists, she works from a treehouse studio in a tiny Vermont village, high enough to see all the way to New Hampshire. Her great-grandparents, who moved to Vermont from Ireland long ago, clearly left a mark—so much so that the family just couldn’t stay away and settled back in again!

 

Read my comic, From the desk of the President, to learn how comics helped me learn to read.