Celia Jacobs is the 2024 winner of the Dilys Evans Founder’s Award for her graphic novel The Circuit (Clarion Books/HarperCollins Publishers). This is the first graphic novel to ever win this prize!
Celia was born in Portland, Oregon, and moved south to attend ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California, where she received a BFA in illustration. She now lives in sunny Los Angeles and works for various brands and publications, making illustrations from a home studio shared with a black-and-white dog named Archie. Her interests include nature, music, and social issues, all of which she interprets through California technicolor and analog materials. These may be acrylic on paper, pen and ink with color added digitally, or any other way color can be pushed around a page. This is the first children’s book she has illustrated. Visit celiaj.com for more of her work!
