About Me

I am a versatile writer and illustrator. I specialise in tackling complex subjects for a broad audience including children, young adults and adults.

I am also mother to three fabulous children who endlessly inspire my stories, characters and approaches.

I originally studied Fine Art Painting and Drawing at Glasgow School of Art where I painted scenes inspired by sci-fi, horror and blockbuster films. I still sneak cinematic reference into my illustrations!

When I am not writing and drawing I can be found swimming or sitting quietly in a library researching.

I sometimes lecture for Teesside University and Leeds Arts University across a range of arts programmes. I have an MA with distinction in Art Museum and Gallery Education from the International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies.  

"One of my main dreams as a writer has always been to work with an artist to create a comic or graphic novel. I am so overjoyed that it has begun to come true, as I have collaborated with brilliant illustrator Michelle Freeman to create a mini-comic, based around my poem 'Frogspawn'.

Working with Michelle has been so rewarding. I enjoyed the rhythm we found, and how we communicated with, and listened to, each other. I am in awe of Michelle's talent, and the final comic surpasses all of my aspirations, with the art style really playing into the surreal and pensive, but ultimately hopeful, vibes of the poem."

Feedback from award winning (New North Poets Prize) creative Elizabeth Gibson. Check out their website here: https://elizabeth-gibson.com/.

Awards, Features and Reviews

Winner LDComics Prize, 2021 for best graphic novel in progress.

Showcased artist at Small Press Day, Cartoon Museum, London, August, 2024. 

Young Graphic Novelist to Watch, radio interview with Alex Fitch/Panel Borders for Resonance FM, 2 August, 2024.

Sequent'ull Interviews with Sean Azzopardi for Down the Tubes comics Journal, July 2024.

Featured in Graphic Medicine web journal 'My Rights in the Maternity System', McKenzie, G., 2022.

Featured in: Feminism, Graphic Zines and Maternity Rights, by McKenzie, G. AIMS Journal Volume 3, No. 4, 2022.

Broken Frontier review of Pandora's Box comic by Michelle Freeman.

Publications 

"The Lottery" wordless comic by Michelle Freeman, BOXES Vol. 5, ThirdBear Press, 2025.

A Love The Weight Of An Animal, poetry collection by Gibson, E. Front cover by Michelle Freeman, Carmenta Poetry Confingo Publishing, autumn 2024.

It Came from Matlock!, graphic short by Michelle Freeman, Tall Tales Comics Anthology, WiP Comics, 2024.

Frogspawn, 8-page poetry comic written by Elizabeth Gibson, illustrated by Michelle Freeman, Overinkers Anthology #2, Helping Hand edition, 2024

I Could be the Entire Universe!, short story written by Elizabeth Gibson, illustrated by Michelle Freeman for Changeling Mini-Mag, Pride Edition, 2024.

Featured artist in collaboration with writer Elizabeth Gibson in an international survey of contemporary practice: Artist Collectives Conversations Methods Practices, Bhargava, P. et al, 2024. 

Featured artist in an international survey of contemporary practice: Social Justice Art of the Twenties, Jackson, A. 2023.

Double page spread from Frogspawn poetry comic written by Elizabeth Gibson, Illustrated by Michelle Freeman,The Greenhouse #4 ,Time edition, 2023

Advice I'd Give to My Younger Self, short comic written and illustrated by Michelle Freeman Drama Proof Pigeon Club #2, 2023

Pandora's Box, fold out comic written and illustrated by Michelle Freeman, Colossive Press, 2023

The Glass Mountain poetry-comic written and Illustrated by Michelle Freeman, Rewilding Comics Anthology, Drawn Together Collective, 2022.

My Rights in the Maternity System, zine made in collaboration with Association for Improvements in Maternity Services, Kings College London, 2022.

Exhibitions

Framed, An Exhibition of Comic Art, Shirethorn House, Hull, 2021-22

Social Justice Art of the Twenties, 2023:

Just Paper and Ink (a celebration of indie comics creators and comics inspired imagery), Prospect Centre, Hull, 2023