Eleri Mai Harris
Hailing from Lutruwita/Tasmania, Eleri Harris (she/her) is an Eisner award-winning editor, cartoonist and children’s author currently working on Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country in Australia’s national capital.
For a decade Eleri was Features Editor at US-based comics website and magazine, The Nib. Her non-fiction history, science and reportage comics have been exhibited and published all over the world.
Eleri is the coauthor, along with Shay Mirk, of the Eisner nominated book Making Nonfiction Comics: A Guide for Graphic Narrative (Abrams ComicArts 2025). Eleri has spoken about the practice and art of non-fiction comics making at conferences in the US, Australia, India and Peru. She is also a regular guest lecturer in comics journalism at the University of Technology Sydney, The Center for Cartoon Studies and The California College of the Arts.
Eleri is also the author of the CBCA award shortlisted picture book, A Loo of One’s Own: The Mostly True Story of Australia’s First Female Parliamentarians (Allen & Unwin 2025).
From 2019-2023, Eleri was co-director of the Comic Art Workshop, a grassroots organisation supporting remote residencies for ambitious comics projects. She loves drawing tiny pictures in her studio at Gorman Arts Centre, walking in the bush and building sweet comics communities.
For commissions and enquiries contact Eleri on:
eleri dot harris at gmail dot com
Making Nonfiction Comics: A Guide for Graphic Narrative by Eleri Harris & Shay Mirk
(Abrams ComicArts 2025)
“Making Non-Fiction Comics is an ambitious, impressive, and engaging book that might never be bettered. It’s ideal as a stage-by-stage guide for creators, editors, and commissioners of non-fiction comics, but has wider appeal, and deserves to remain in print and in libraries everywhere.” – Slings and Arrows
A Loo of One’s Own: A Mostly True Tale of Australia’s First Female Parliamentarians by Eleri Harris
(Allen & Unwin 2025)
“This picture book is a true delight, and its relevance and potential for interesting discussions and/or lesson plans is limited only by the imagination!” – Storylinks
