Cole Pauls is a Tahltan comic artist, illustrator and printmaker hailing from Haines Junction (Yukon Territory) with a BFA in Illustration from Emily Carr University. Residing in Vancouver, Pauls focuses on his two comic series, the first being Pizza Punks: a self contained comic strip about punks eating pizza, the other being Dakwkda Warriors. In 2017, Pauls won Broken Pencil Magazine's Best Comic and Best Zine of the Year Award for Dakwkda Warriors II. In 2020, Dakwkda Warriors won Best Work in an Indigenous Language from the Indigenous Voices Awards and was nominated for two DougWright Award categories: The Egghead and The Nipper.
Intentional without being didactic or overbearing, this is an excellent addition to the growing Indigenous futurism movement. - Booklist on DW, Pauls spins a tale of Indigenous resistance that serves as both an introduction to colonialism and a rock socking sci-fi western, all rendered in a style that boldly blends the best of contemporary punk comics with traditional motifs. Miss this book, and you're missing history. - Broken Pencil