Zoe Thorogood


Zoe Thorogood is a British comic book author and artist. She is the author of The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott and It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth, as well as a run of Hack/Slash through 2022-to-2023, in which series creator Tim Seeley resumed writing. In addition to her work on independent comics, she also co-created the character of Spider-UK together with Ramzee for Marvel Comics and wrote multiple stories in anthologies published by DC Comics.

Early life and education

Thorogood was born on June 7, 1998 in Bradford, England. She studied video game art at De Montfort University in Leicester, which led her to an internship in 2017 creating design concepts at Splash Damage. She continued her studies at Teesside University between 2018 and 2019.

Career

In 2019, Thorogood began working in comics as a freelance artist.
She attended a convention organized in London by the American independent comic book publisher Image Comics, where this publisher was impressed with Thorogood's portfolio. Image introduced her to several other comic artist including Kieron Gillen, of whom later approved her as "the future of comics".
Her first graphic novel, The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott, was published in 2020. While she has suffered from sight problems since the age of 3, in 2017 she learned that her retina was slowly being detached, and that she could eventually go blind. Although inspired by her personal story, the character of Billie Scott is not an incarnation of Thorogood, as she would later explain in her second graphic novel.
Thorogood's second graphic novel, It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth, was published in 2022 through Image. It's Lonely... is an autobiography, focusing on Zoe's life through the last six months of 2021. It was not originally intended for publication; it was written during a depressive period. Finally, she decided to share a few illustrations on the Internet. She received messages from readers who identified with her work and her experience and felt that her work deserved to become a full-fledged book.
Her next comic was Hack/Slash: Back to School, set in the universe created by Tim Seeley. She is also the writer of the comic Life Is Strange: Forget-Me-Not, adapted from the video game Life Is Strange: True Colors, with art by Claudia Leonard and Andrea Izzo, published by Titan Comics.

Works

As writer and artist