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Juliana Hyrri is a painter, cartoonist, and illustrator living and working in Helsinki, Finland. She holds an MA (in visual communication design—visual narrative path) from Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. In addition, she has completed minors in comics and illustration and studied art education. She likes cool pillows, soft fabric, and someone else taking the trash out. As a kid she wanted to be a bus driver because her dad, his brother, their father, and father’s father drove the bus. She still does not have a driving license. She loves storytelling and is fascinated by innocent evil and moments when time seems to stand still.
"""Gentle, beautiful, and at times chilling, Juliana Hyrri conjures childhood with all its complications."" –Eleanor Davis, author of How To Be Happy and The Hard Tomorrow ""A miraculous achievement, one of the most impressive works of comic art of the year."" – The Comics Journal “The Nightingale has strength and sensitivity, its sound echoes long-hidden secrets and shame of an unidentified nature. The best debut in years.” – Ville Hänninen, comics critic and author ""Juliana Hyrri’s debut work looks at the world through the eyes of a child and an adult at the same time. The end result is an exceptionally-close blend of innocent beauty and miraculous cruelty. The narrative, which plays with the contradiction between the image and the text, opens the path to the fuzzy logic of childhood for even the middle-aged reader.” – Ville Pirinen, comics artist, writer, and musician ""There is poetry and magic and weird ambiance in her work."" – David Amram, critic and writer ""Employing ambiguity and narrative gaps, these stories powerfully evoke the voicelessness of childhood."" – No Flying, No Tights Juliana’s fearless, brave comics linger like a lump in one’s throat; they are lovingly textured, assuredly drawn meditations on all the joy, anguish, mystery, confusion, and abject horror of childhood.–Ivan Brunetti, author of Schizo Hyrri's raw and childlike drawing style is evocative. Pass this along to adventurous readers who like the unusual.–Booklist"
