Carla Speed McNeil

Carla Speed McNeil is a writer, cartoonist, and comic artist who is best known for her original comic series, Finder. She is the artist for the 2015 Free Comic Book Day Avatar: The Last Airbender release.

Comic artist

 * 2015 Free Comic Book Day issue

Selected other credits

 * Finder (webcomic)
 * Queen & Country (graphic novel)
 * The Merchant of Death (graphic novel)
 * Smut Peddler (graphic novel)

Biographical information
McNeil was born in Hammond, Louisiana. She made her foray into comic publishing with Finder in 1996, which was made available as a webcomic beginning in 2005.

McNeil has written and illustrated comics for anthologies including Dignifying Science and Smut Peddler. She worked as an illustrator on the Oni Press series Queen & Country in 2003. She also provided 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 20, 2008.

Awards

 * 2011: Won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Graphic Novel) for Finder: Voice
 * 2009: Won the Eisner Award for Best Webcomic for Finder
 * 2005: Won the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Series for Finder
 * 2004: Won the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Series for Finder
 * 1998: Won the Ignatz Award for Promising New Talent
 * 1997: Won the Lulu Awards' Kimberly Yale Award for Best New Talent for Finder and Shanda the Panda