Lale Westvind

Lale Westvind was born in 1987 in Harlem, New York City. She is an Ignatz Award winner and a critically acclaimed contemporary comics artist, known for her risograph comics, paintings and drawings. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been published in magazines and anthologies internationally such as Best American Comics, Kramer's Ergot, Smoke Signal, Arthur, Strapazin (Switz.), Lagon Revue (FR), The lifted Brow (AUS) and others. Westvind won the Ignatz Award for Promising New Talent in 2012 for Hot Dog Beach #2 and was nominated for the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Comic in 2012 and 2013.

She is the author of Hax (Breakdown Press, 2015), Now and Here #1-3, (Pegacorn Press, 2014) and Yazar and Arkadas (Fume Room Press, 2016) and Grip (Perfectly Acceptable Press, 2018). She has also self-published over a dozen comic books and two anthologies.

Her animation work has shown internationally at festivals, galleries and the New Museum in New York City. Her music video for Lightning Bolt's Metal East won an award at Leeds International Film Festival in 2015.

Lale Westvind has a passion for motorcycles, movement and working with her hands.