Excerpt from Tough Shit, coming out this spring from Newcity


First two pages of New Thing, coming out summer 2024


Iona Fox is a cartoonist living in Chicago. Her weekly strip Almanac ran in Seven Days alt-weekly newspaper from 2016-2019, during which she was twice-nominated for EXPOZINE MONTREAL “Best Comic” Award & appeared in Best American Comics 2018 Notables. Book collections of her comics are available through Radiator Comics. >>


Selections:
  

BOSTON GLOBE, SEVEN DAYS: In New Graphic Anthology 'Most Costly Journey,' Vermont’s Migrant Farmworkers Tell Their Stories. October 13, 2021. This great collection was also selected by VT Humanities for VERMONT READS 2022. You can read all of the stories here!

LUMPEN MAGAZINE, Comics Isssue, Fall 2022

THE NIB, Nature Issue, 2022

THE NEW FARMER’S ALMANAC, 2021

BEST AMERICAN COMICS 2018 Notables list

ZINE NOT DEAD performer, 2019. A quarterly comics & sketch comedy show, & a Chicago institution!

2017 MICE GRANT RECIPIENT

SEVEN DAYS Alt Weekly: NEA Grants Support Cartooning & Collaboration. March 13, 2019.

PROCESS PARTY PODCAST: Comics Journalism, with Joe Sacco, Sophie Yanow, Iona Fox & Mike Dawson. October 2017.

COMICS BEAT: Exploring Climate Change & Migrant Detention in Sophie Yanow, Iona Fox & Tings Chak’s Comics. June 2016.

BEST ENGLISH LANGUAGE COMIC, Nominee in 2014 & 2016, EXPOZINE Montreal.

SEVEN DAYS: Cartoonist Veterans Project Releases Comics Anthology. April 20, 2016.

COMICS BEAT INTERVIEW: Autobiography, Farming & Experimentation. May 2017.

LADYBROAD LEDGER, Original founding member of Vermont’s free, femme, alt comics newspaper! See more here, here & here. Neko Case is a fan!

OUTDOORS MAGAZINE: Change Is Coming—A Decade of Climate Research In The Northeast. October 2016.

VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO: Local Cartoonists Draw Out Life Stories of Migrant Workers. April 2016.

GENERATOR MAKER SPACE, Artist-in-Residence, 2016.

BROKEN PENCIL Magazine. Almanac, July 2015.

SEVEN DAYS: Two Vermont Cartoon Projects Tell Stories, Consider Messages. July 8, 2015.

LISTEN to Iona talk comics with Neal Charnoff on All Things Considered, VPR, May 9, 2013 

AK PRESSNew Farmer's Almanac, 2013. 

SEVEN DAYS, BCA's Statewide Exhibit Considers the Power of Place. Pamela Polston, October 10, 2013.

SEVEN DAYS, A Cartoonist Documents Irene Down on the Farm. State of the Arts, August 22, 2011.
 

Contact


iona [dot] fox [dot] comics [at] gmail