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Willow Dawson is a Canadian cartoonist and illustrator, whose works include ''The Big Green Book of the Big Blue Sea'' with author Helaine Becker (Kids Can Press), ''Hyena in Petticoats: The Story of Suffragette Nellie McClung'' (Penguin Books Canada), ''Lila and Ecco's Do-It-Yourself Comics Club'' (Kids Can Press), ''100 Mile House'' (excerpts on Top Shelf Comics 2.0), the graphic novel ''No Girls Allowed'', with author Susan Hughes (Kids Can Press), and ''Violet Miranda: Girl Pirate'', with author Emily Pohl-Weary (Kiss Machine). Her works have been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council.〔Willow Dawson, http://www.willowdawson.com/willowdawsonbio.htm〕 Her black and white comics art style is wonderful: bold and full of thought.〔Broken Pencil Magazine, http://www.brokenpencil.com/reviews/reviews.php?reviewid=3230〕 Dawson also creates painted stand alone illustrations which she turns into prints and sells on her (Society6 ) site. The original art is created using acrylic ink and paint on recycled cardboard. Her illustrations convey a mood of whimsy and playful-uncanny.〔Drawn!, http://drawn.ca/2008/05/03/willow-dawson/〕 Her work typically exhibits flowing linework and favours a 50's colour palette. She is a member of The RAID Studio, The Writers' Union of Canada, Illustration Mundo, and JacketFlap. Dawson was born in 1975 and grew up in Vancouver, BC. She currently lives in a creaky-old-house-turned-music-school in downtown Toronto.〔 ==Growing Up== Dawson grew up in the area of Kitsilano, in Vancouver, British Columbia. She spent a lot of time in hospital as a child with severe, chronic asthma, during which she drew and made art. She credits her father, artist (Clif Dawson ), as her best friend, a continued source of inspiration and the reason she got into art in the first place. Her last name means son of the jackdaw (blackbird). Dawson and her father share a love of and fascination with flight, including birds (particularly crows) and airplanes. Her parents purchased of forest in 100 Mile House, British Columbia before she was born. Her father built a large cabin on a ridge and the family spent their summers there until the mid-late 1980s. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Willow Dawson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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