Mandy Ord

Mandy Ord (born 1974) is a Melbourne-based comic artist. Her work has appeared in The Age, Meanjin, The Australian Rationalist magazine, Voiceworks, Tango, Going Down Swinging and Red Leaves / 紅葉.^[1] Since 2009 Ord has also had a regular comic strip published in Trouble (magazine). In 2004, she was nominated for the Ledger Award for Small Press Title of the Year for her comic Dirty Little Creep.^[2][3]

Mandy Ord
Born	1974 Sydney, NSW
Nationality	Australian
Education	Bachelor of Visual Arts, Australian National University (ANU) Canberra School of Art, Canberra, ACT
Known for	Illustrator/Cartoonist

Ord's earliest published work was in her own book Wilnot in 1994.^[4] Her first graphic novel was a collaboration with Amber Carvan, Brick Dog and Other Stories 2002,^[5] followed by her first solo graphic novel Rooftops 2007, published by Findlay Lloyd.^[6][7] Ord is also the author of minicomics Ordinary Eyeball (2006)^[8] and Sensitive Creatures (2004).^[9]

Ord's book, When One Person Dies the Whole World Is Over, was longlisted for the 2020 Stella Prize.^[10]

Works

• Brick Dog and Other Stories co-author with Amber Carvan (2002)
• Rooftops: A graphic novel (2007)
• Sensitive Creatures (2nd Ed, 2011)
• NY: A graphic story (2013)
• Chalk Boy, illustrator, (2018)
• Galápagos (2018)
• When One Person Dies the Whole World Is Over (2019)