Archie Bongiovanni

Contact Info

Lives in: Minneapolis, MN

Email: [email protected]

Websites:

All-ages, youth-appropriate website: https://www.archiebongiovanni.com/allages

Website for all projects: https://www.archiebongiovanni.com

Author and Illustrator of: Young Adult Non-Fiction and Adult Fiction

Age Group: Teens and older

Books:

A Quick And Easy Guide To They/Them Pronouns, co-written by Archie Bongiovanni and Tristan Jimerson, Drawn by Archie Bongiovanni, 2018 Limerence/Oni Press, website: https://www.archiebongiovanni.com/they-them

Grease Bats written and drawn by Archie Bongiovanni, 2019 Boom Studios, https://www.archiebongiovanni.com/greasebats

Upcoming: History Comics: Stonewall , written by Archie Bongiovanni, drawn by A. Andrews, First Second, 2022 https://www.archiebongiovanni.com/projects/stonewall

Mimosa, written and drawn by Archie Bongiovanni, Surely Press 2022 https://www.archiebongiovanni.com/mimosa

Book Awards:
School Library Journal starred review, Publishers Weekly Favorite Reads of 2018, 2018 Chicago Public Library Best Book Of The Year for Teen Nonfiction, 2018 YALSA’s Great Graphic Novels For Teens for Teen Nonfiction, Virginia Library Association Graphic Novel Diversity Award Honoree 2018, Mosaic Award Finalist 2019

Highlights/Bio
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Archie Bongiovanni is a cartoonist and illustrator living in Minneapolis. Their graphic novel, A Quick And Easy Guide To They/Them Pronouns was published with Limerence Press/Oni Press and was one of YALSA’s Great Graphic Novels For Teens. Their next graphic novel, Grease Bats, published by Boom! Studios, was a Mosaic Award Finalist in 2019. Grease Bats is an ongoing serialized comic that is still being printed monthly on Autostraddle. Their zine, Flagging 101, was published by Silver Sprocket in 2020. They’re the author of the upcoming YA book History Comics: Stonewall. Bongiovanni’s work has been featured in The New Yorker, The Nib Magazine, Vice and Electric Literature. Bongiovanni is currently working on their next original graphic novel, Mimosa, published by Surely Press.

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