Speaker

Jerry Bennett is a freelance illustrator and graphic novelist currently drawing GLAMORELLA’S DAUGHTER for Literati Press Comics, and also writing & illustrating his own graphic novels. Jerry has held art residencies across the state showing comic art and teaching the comic art process through curriculum he designed, and has presented virtual and in-person workshops on the graphic novel process. 

Jerry won the prestigious SCBWI Narrative Art Award, and is the SCBWI Global U.S. Illustrator Coordinator. He is also a board member of the Oklahoma Comic Arts Foundation, a non-profit designed to spotlight Oklahoma comic creators and the power of comics in culture and education. Jerry is represented by Mark Gottlieb of Trident Literary Group.