Eric Orchard Archives

A separate Retailer Award Committee overseen by Scott VanderPloeg (Comic Book Daily) reviews the data and selects a short list of stores that have shown merit in a variety of categories. The Dragon Award (Comics for Kids)/Le Prix Dragon (Bandes Dessinées pour Enfants): Eric Orchard, Bera the One-Headed Troll (:01 First Second) This award recognizes the works which capture[...]

Eric Orchard is well known as a meek, mild illustrator of comics and children's books such as Maddy Kettle But yesterday things took a very nasty turn He began by posting on Facebook, from hospital, I got beat up today Busted up nose etc three guys did it Please send good thoughts. He later elaborated, after much concern[...]

By June Vigants The NYCC weekend was quite hectic but I had a great moment at the Top Shelf Comics booth when I got to sit down with Eric Orchard, an author and artist based in Toronto who came down for his debut American signing of his critically-acclaimed all-ages novel, Maddie Kettle: The Adventure of the[...]