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 ILLUSTRATION

PUBLISHED/ EXHIBITED WORK




What Yue Did (WYD), made for Perfectly Acceptable's Pumpkin residency in 2020. Published by Perfectly Acceptable. When Molly Drew Dogs, written by Deborah Kerbel and illustrated by me. Published by Owlkids Books, 2019 Off The Charts. The New York Times Book Review, AD Matt Dorfman. 2017 Upstate. The New York Times Book Review, AD Matt Dorfman. 2018 The Upshot, AD Antonio De Luca. 2017 The Great Alone. The New York Times Book Review, AD Matt Dorfman. 2018 The Driest Season. The New York Times Book Review, AD Matt Dorfman. 2018 Cover. Wavering Line Issue 4. 2018 Therapy Dogs, OCAD U, AD Lola Landekvic. 2017 Seasonal Affective Disorder, The Globe and Mail, AD Bryan Gee. 2018 Run. Loose Leaf Magazine. 2017 Owl and Friends, Light Grey Labs Art Show. 2017 Poster for ONO Fest. 2016 Cover, Occasional Dispatch. 2018 Classroom. Giants (thesis work at OCAD U). 2016 PTSD. Giants (thesis work at OCAD U). 2016

COMICS



Wavering Line is a comics and art magazine produced by WLC. Here are the comics and illustrations I’ve made with them through the years! 

Issue 1

Issue 2

Issue 3

Issue 4

Issue 5 (Collab comic with Keelin!)

Issue 6

Issue 7

ABOUT ME


Lis Xu is an award-winning, Chinese-Canadian comics and picture book illustrator. Her work includes Layover (self-published), The Shit Witch (self-published), When Molly Drew Dogs (OwlKids) and The Adventures of Kelp Creatures (Oceanwise), as well as comics in Gytha Quarterly, POLLE, and Pulping. 

She mostly draws with traditional media, and is always thinking about the John Waters quote, "Sometimes, stupid and cute are enough."
 
You can email her at lis@lisshu.com :)


Interviews/Reviews
Broken Pencil, CanLit, Quill and Quire, Creative Howl, The Creative Independent

CV available on request
Comics By Me
May 2017


A collection of three comics. Mouse over to navigate, read left to right. 



Chloe




Doug




Ambivert
Traveler
August 2016


A comic about a traveler and their horse named Kitty.