About Eleri

Eleri Harris (she/her) is an Eisner award-winning cartoonist, journalist and editor working on Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country in Australia’s national capital. Her non-fiction history, science and reportage comics have been exhibited and published all over the world. For a decade she was Features Editor at US-based comics website and magazine, The Nib. 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. 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, playing make-believe with her kids and walking in the bush.

Making Nonfiction Comics: A Guide to Graphic Narrative, co-authored with Sarah Shay Mirk (Abrams ComicArts 2025). US release date November 8 2025, Australian release November 13 2025.
A Loo of One’s Own: A Mostly True Tale of Australia’s First Female Parliamentarians (Allen & Unwin 2025)