Carla Speed McNeil

Carla Speed McNeil is a sci-fi writer, cartoonist, and illustrator of comics. Her chief work is the ongoing science fiction comic series "Finder", which she has published since 1996, making her one of the few widely distributed self-published comic artists working today. She has also written and illustrated comics for anthologies including "Dignifying Science" and "Smut Peddler", worked as an illustrator on the Oni Press series Queen and Country and did a two-page guest-illustrator spot for "Transmetropolitan: Filth of the City". She is editor in chief and print manager of Saucy Goose Press, which produces "Smut Peddler" and other related projects. Her adaptation of D. J. MacHale's first Pendragon book, The Merchant of Death was released on May 20th, 2008.

In 1997, at at Comic-Con International, McNeil won the Lulu Awards' Kimberly Yale Award for Best New Talent for her work on "Finder" and "Shanda the Panda". McNeil also won the Ignatz Award for Promising New Talent in 1998.

McNeil was nominated for Lulu Award Lulu of the Year in 2001 and 2002, and for an Ignatz Award for Outstanding Artist in 2001. "Finder" won the Ignatz for Outstanding Series in 2004 and 2005. Her work has also been nominated for Eisner Awards in several categories over the years.