2016 Judge: Maris Wicks

Maris Wicks is the author behind Human Body Theater, as well as the illustrator of New York Times bestselling Primates, with Jim Ottaviani. Wicks has also created comics for Spongebob Comics, DC, and Marvel.  When she’s not making comics, Wicks works as a program educator at the New England Aquarium. She is quite fond of […]

Maris Wicks is the author behind Human Body Theater, as well as the illustrator of New York Times bestselling Primates, with Jim Ottaviani. Wicks has also created comics for Spongebob Comics, DC, and Marvel.  When she’s not making comics, Wicks works as a program educator at the New England Aquarium. She is quite fond of being in the water, whether it’s swimming in ponds or scuba diving in the Atlantic Ocean. Her next book with First Second/Macmillan, Science Comics: Coral Reefs, will put all her scuba diving time to good use! Wicks lives in sunny Somerville, Massachusetts.

 

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