Marnie Galloway

Email: marniegalloway (AT) gmail (DOT) com

Website: www.marnie-galloway.com

Education

BA, Smith College, Northampton MA

Major: Logic 

Minor: Studio Arts

2006, Honors

Coursework towards MFA 

Columbia College, Chicago IL

Book and Paper Arts

2008-2009

Selected Publications

  • Really In It, Volume II: Collected Diary Comics, self-published, 2025

  • “A Creature’s Guide to Caring” by Elizabeth Preston, art by Marnie Galloway. Penguin Random House, 2026 (forthcoming) 

  • “Cuarenta” by Marnie Galloway, published by Zine-A-Month, 2025

  • “Abortion Pills Zine: A Community Guide to Misoprostol and Mifepristone” by Marnie Galloway, Isabella Rotman, and Sage Coffey. Silver Sprocket, 2024

  • Really In It: Collected Diary Comics, self-published, 2024

  • Pensacola, Self-published, 2024

  • On Fire. Mutha Magazine, 2023.

  • “The Problem of the Page: Manifesting imagination through Panels and Page Spreads.” Field Guide to Graphic Literature (contributor), Kelcey Ervick & Tom Hart, editors. Rose Petal Press, 2023.

  • “Not Writing,” Careful Materials, Robin Hustle, editor. 2019

  • Slightly Plural, self published, 2018

  • Particle/Wave, So What Press, 2016

  • Burrow, self published with the support of the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, 2016

  • In the Sounds and Seas (collected), One Peace Books, 2016

  • In the Sounds and Seas, Volume III, self published, 2016

  • “Pisces,” in What’s Your Sign, Girl? (Contributor), Robert Kirby editor. 2015

  • Mare Cognitum, So What Press, 2015

  • In the Sounds and Seas Volume II, self published, 2014

  • Self-Dual, self published, 2014

  • Medusa, self published, 2013

  • In the Sounds and Seas volume I, self published, 2012

Professional Positions

  • Lecturer, Painting/Drawing Department, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Courses taught: Making Comics (Intro); Comics Fiction and Poetics; Senior Capstone. 2023 - present.

  • Staff Cartoonist, Ask Magazine. 2017 - 2024

  • Board Member, Chicago Alternative Comics Expo. 2015 - present

  • Co-Organizer, Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (curator; juror; program development; exhibitor services). 2012-2015

  • Community Board, Artist Book House. 2021-2023

  • Art Director, Muse and Cicada magazines, Cricket Media. 2013-2016

  • Letterpress operator, studio assistant: Starshaped Press. 2009-2011

Guest Lecturer & Invited Artist

2025 Special Guest, Cartooning the Medieval, Newberry Library.

2025 Guest Juror, Cupcake Award minigrant, Chicago Alternative Comics Expo

2025 Guest Juror, S’More Award minigrant, Comic Arts Maine Portland

2025 Workshop leader, Making Comics from Life, Artist Book House, Chicago IL

2024 Workshop leader, Diary Comics, Artist Book House, Chicago IL

2023 Guest lecturer, Research Studio, School of the Art Institute, Chicago IL.

2019 Rusty Brown Book Release, Chris Ware in Conversation with Marnie Galloway, Quimby’s Bookstore.

2019 Special guest. Marnie Galloway in Conversation with Shiamin Kwa. International Comic Arts Forum, Davenport IA

2019 Panelist, Birthing Comics, Small Press Expo, Bethesda MD

2019 Guest lecturer, Comics Professional Practices, School of the Art Institute, Chicago IL

2018 Workshop leader, Start Making Comics, Harold Washington Library, Chicago IL

2017 Guest lecturer, Creative Writing department, Indiana University South Bend, South Bend IN

2017 Panelist, Visual Narratives, Chicago Book Expo, Chicago IL

2016 Performer and special guest, Small Press Expo. Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St Louis MO

2016 Panelist, Poetry and Comics, Chicago Alternative Comics Expo

2015 Guest lecturer, Religion and Comics, TriCo Mellon Comics Studies Working Group, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr PA

2015 Guest artist, English department, Harper College, Palatine IL

2013 Wonder Women: Gender and Comics. Filmmakers Collaborative, Chicago, IL

Awards and Honors

2025 Eisner Award Nomination, Best Single Issue/One Shot, Abortion Pill Zine

2023 Pushcart Prize Nomination for Best in Small Press Publishing, Mutha Magazine, for the comic “On Fire”

2019 Featured Artist, Chicago Alternative Comics Expo

2015 Ragdale Residency Fellowship

2013 Featured Artist, Chicago Zine Fest

2012 Xeric Award for Emerging Cartoonists

2010 Honorable Mention, Seoul International Book Fair

2009 Offset Printmaking Fellowship, Columbia College Chicago

Selected Exhibitions

2024 Meanwhile, performative reading. Delilah’s, Chicago IL.

2020 Zine Not Dead, performative reading. Archer Ballroom, Chicago IL.

2019 Careful Material, reading. The Back Room at Kim’s Corner Foods.

2018 ”Space Ocean Body: The Poetic Comics of Marnie Galloway.” Solo exhibition, Harold Washington Library, Chicago IL 

2016 Burrow, solo performative reading, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St Louis MO

2016 Two Cookie Minimum, Comfort Station, Chicago IL

2016 Zine Not Dead, CoProsperity Sphere, Chicago IL

2015 ”Like Comics Without Panels: The Visionary Cartooning of John Porcellino, Marnie Galloway, and Edie Fake.” Harper College, Palatine IL

2015 All Hallows Day Variety Show, Chicago Publishers Resource Center (ChiPRC), Chicago IL

2014 Superheroines: Women in Comics. Workspace Gallery, Chicago IL

2013 Artists Multiples, Printed Matter, NY NY

2013 BrainFrame Alumni Show, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago IL

2013 Modern Storytellers, Ugly Stepsister Gallery, Chicago IL

2012 Brain Frame 9, Chicago IL

2012 Epic Something. Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago IL

2011 Natural Cycles: Sustainability in the Book and Paper Arts. Ryerswon Woods Gallery, Chicago IL.

2011 Friends of Transit Invitational. I AM Logan Square Gallery, Chicago IL

2011 Sequential Art. ARC Gallery, Chicago IL

2010 Pressed: Letterpress Printed Ephemera, Denver Pavillions, Denver CO

2010 Respite, Vespine Gallery, Chicago IL

2010 Seoul International Book Fair.

Select Freelance Clients, Comics and Illustration 

New York Times

Saveur Magazine

Artist Book House

PEN America

RIT Press

Cricket Magazine Group magazines (Faces, Ask, Cicada, Cricket)

826CHI

Festival Appearances

Automatic, Minneapolis MN, 2013, 2015

Chicago Alternative Comics Expo, Chicago IL, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018,  2019, 2024, 2025

Chicago Zine Fest, Chicago IL, 2012-2017, 2024

Linework. Portland, OR 2015

Short Run, Seattle WA, 2016, 2018

Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo, Columbus OH, 2012, 2013

Small Press Expo, Bethesda, MD 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2024

St Louis Small Press Expo, St Louis MO, 2014, 2016

Toronto Comic Arts Festival, Toronto ON, Canada, 2013, 2014, 2016

Zine Not Dead Fest, Chicago IL, 2024

Selected Collections

Library of Congress

Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Ryderson Library, Art Institute of Chicago

Special Collections Research Center, University of Illinois Chicago

Selected Interviews and Reviews

Drawing Your Days, Heidi Fielder substack series, “Mothers Who Make.” 2025

Conversations: Carol Tilley with Marnie Galloway, by Carol Tilley. Artist Book House, 2021

Text Messages and Ghosts are a Joy: A Conversation with Cartoonist Marnie Galloway, by Shiamin Kwa. Inks: The Journal of Comics Studies, Volume 2, Issue 2. 2020

Slightly Plural: A Review, by Rob Clough. The Comics Journal, 2019

Visual Storytelling: A Conversation with Marnie Galloway, by Elisa Shoenberger. The Rumpus, 2018

In the Sounds and Seas: A Review, by Paul Doyle. By The Firelight, 2017

Interview: Marnie Galloway, Paula Knight, and the Myth of Having It All. Andrea Ayres, The Comics Beat, 2017

In the Sounds and Seas: A Review, by Seth T. Hahne. Good OK Bad, 2016

I’m In for Keeps: An Interview with Cartoonist Marnie Galloway, by Brian Cremins. Brass City Stories, 2014