Stephen Gilpin, Iola-born indie comics artist and illustrator, will speak at the library 7 p.m. Thurs., Sept. 19. He’s the second in this fall’s Local Author Speaker Series at IPL, following Donna Hawk, who spoke in August about her new paranormal mystery, “Butterfly Totem”. Chanute novelist Maranda Collins will be here 7 p.m. Tues., Oct. 22, to discuss her forthcoming thriller, the third in her Sadie Lynch series.
Gilpin, now living in Gas with his wife Jen “and some kids, pets and chickens”, has been working professionally as an illustrator since 2001. He’s illustrated numerous picture books, chapter books, graphic novels and other projects for such clients as Disney/Hyperion, Simon & Schuster, Harper, MacMillan, Scholastic and others.
Since 2016 he’s done a regular comic strip page for Scout Life (Boys’ Life) Magazine. Recent projects include graphic novel adaptations of “Artemis Fowl: The Infinity Code” and “Bunnicula”.
