Tula Lotay is the pen name of Lisa Wood, an English comic book artist. She is known for illustrating Supreme: Blue Rose, written by Warren Ellis for Image Comics, and for founding the Thought Bubble Festival, the UK's largest comics convention. She was also an artist for Si Spencer's eight-part series Bodies, published by Vertigo.
Biography Lotay grew up in Batley, West Yorkshire.Freeman, Sarah. "Bubble rap: How comic books changed our lives: Struggling to read as a child, Lisa Wood found escape through comic books. Now an artist, she tells Sarah Freeman about the Thought Bubble festival which is devoted to comic art," The Yorkshire Post (16 November 2014). She was adopted when she was a young child and had dyslexia. She attended Dewsbury College and the University of Bradford.
In 2007, while an employee of the local comics and board game retailer Travelling Man, she founded the annual Thought Bubble Festival to promote comic books to the general public, especially children with reading difficulties. Before becoming a comics artist, she was on the British Comic Awards Committee but resigned in 2013 to pursue a full-time art career.
Her first work was the cover art for Elephantmen No. 5 (2012), and in American Vampire: Anthology No. 1 (2013). She has also contributed to Red Sonja.
She illustrated issue No. 13 of The Wicked + The Divine, which was published in 2015 and nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book.
Lotay and her Supreme collaborator Warren Ellis announced in 2015 that they were working on a new comic, Heartless. As of early 2018, Heartless has yet to be released, but work was in progress.
In early 2022, Lotay stepped down as director of the Thought Bubble Festival to concentrate on her art career and family.Lomax, Claire. "Ilkley comic artist Tula Lotay steps down from Thought Bubble convention," The Telegraph and Argus (3 Feb. 2022).
Awards In 2019, in recognition for her work in creating the Thought Bubble Festival, Lotay was awarded the Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award at San Diego Comic-Con's Eisner Awards. Upon receiving the award, Lotay said: In 2023, Lotay won the Eisner Award for Best Digital Comic for her work on Barnstormers: A Ballad of Love and Murder with writer Scott Snyder.
In 2024, Lotay won the Eisner Award for Best New Series for her work with Becky Cloonan on Somna: A Bed Time Story published by DSTLRY.
In 2025, Lotay won the Eisner Award for Best Cover Artist.
Bibliography
Interior art DC Comics/Vertigo Comics All Star Batman No. 7 (2017) American Vampire: Anthology No. 1 (2013) Bodies #1–8 (2014) The Witching Hour: One Shot (2013)
Dynamite Entertainment Legends of Red Sonja #3 (2014)
Image Comics Elephantmen #45 (2012) Supreme: Blue Rose #1–7 (2014) Thought Bubble Anthology #1: The Hound (2011) Thought Bubble Anthology #2: A Significant Portraiture (2012) The Wicked + The Divine No. 13 (2015) Zero No. 18 (2015)
Marvel Comics Scarlet Witch: Volume 2 No. 8 (2016)
Comixology Originals Barnstormers: A Ballad of Love and Murder #1-5 (2022–2023)
Cover art Archie Comics Archie: Volume 2 #17C (2017) Betty & Veronica #1O (2016) Josie and the Pussycats #2C (2016) Jughead: Volume 3 #12C
Boom! Studios Curb Stomp #1A (2015) Fiction #1C (2015) Grass Kings #4B (2017) Joyride #1B (2016) Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #3E (2016)
Dark Horse Comics Briggs Land #1–6 (2016) Briggs Land #3B NYCC Exclusive (2016) Rebels #1–10 (2015 -2016) Tomb Raider:Volume 3 #7–12 (2016–2017) Night of the Ghoul #1B (2022) Barnstormers: A Ballad of Love and Murder #1–3 (2023)
Darryl Makes Comics DMC #1.5 Thought Bubble 2nd Print Variant (2015)
DC Comics/Vertigo All Star Batman #7A, #7C (2017) Black Canary: Volume 4 #1B (2015) Everafter: From the pages of Fables #1–10 (2016–17) Hellblazer #11 – 12A (2017) Shade the Changing Girl #1B Slash and Burn #1–6 (2015 -2016) The Wildstorm #1B (2017)
Dynamite Entertainment Blackcross #1B, #2A-6A Regular Covers (2015) Blackcross #1M, #2E-6E Virgin Art Covers (2015) Dejah Thoris #1C (2016) James Bond: Moneypenny #1A (2017) Miss Fury #1A-5A Regular Covers (2016) Miss Fury #1E-2E Virgin Art Covers (2016) Red Sonja: Volume 3 #1C (2016) Swords of Sorrow #1F, 2A-6A Regular Covers (2015) Swords of Sorrow #1Q, 2D-6D Virgin Art Covers (2015) Vampirella: Volume 4 #1C (2016)
Great Beast Blood Blokes #3 Rear Cover (2013)
IDW Publishing Archangel #1–5 (2016–2017) Jem and the Holograms #7C (2015)
Image Comics Codename Baboushka: Conclave of Death #1B Elephantmen #29 Flip Cover (2010), #54 (2013) Intersect #3B Southern Cross #1C Ghost Variant (2016) Supreme: Blue Rose #1–7 (2014) Supreme: Blue Rose #1 Travelling Man Exclusive (2014) Supreme: Blue Rose #1 SDCC Exclusive (2014) Wayward #14B (2016) The Wicked +The Divine #13B (2015) Zero #18A (2015)
Independent North Bend #1B (2016) - Kickstarter Project Girl With No Name (2019) Legion M
Marvel Comics The Amazing Spider-Man: Volume 4 #9E Women of Power Variant (2016) Black Widow: Volume 7 #1C (2016) Captain America: Sam Wilson #12B (2016) Civil War II: Choosing Sides #6B (2016) Gamora #1E (2016) Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 4 #16C (2017) Star Wars: Han Solo #2C (2016) Vision: Volume 3 #2C (2015)
Titan Books Penny Dreadful #4A (2016) Vikings #1E Fried Pie Variant (2016) World War Tank Girl #2C (2017)
Valiant Comics 4001 A.D. #1B-4B (2016) Bloodshot Reborn #10E, #11D, #12D, #13C (2016) Divinity II #2D, #4D (2016) Faith: Volume 2 #2F (2016)
Art books Dirge (2014) Pequod (2015) Salome (2016) Sequoia (2017) Hiraeth (2018) Largo (2018) Blossom (2020) Blossom X (2020) De Profundis (2020) Shadow Self (2022) Fuchsia (2023) Eurydice (2025)
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