Hey there!
Kate Phillips is an award winning illustrator and graphic novelist based in Kjipuktuk (Halifax), Nova Scotia. Between drawing her own comics and illustrating children's books, Kate has been exploring digital and traditional art to tell stories through a Queer, East Coast lens.
Though her characters are often expressive and playful, Kate enjoys pushing at the border where silly intersects serious. She is interested in making the mundane into the uncanny, or narratives where the resolution may be left to interpretation.
Kate has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Print Media) from Mount Allison University.
"High Tide is real gem of a read and has made Phillips into a creator who we will definitely be paying more attention to in the future. If only because it will inspire our own productivity!" - Alex Thomas, Pipedream Comics
Selected INVOLVEMENT
Winner - Sequential Magazine Favourite Cartoonist 2023
Runner up - Sequential Magazine Favourite Colourist 2023
Invited speaker, "Comics and Creating Sequential Narratives" for "Greek and Roman Mythology" St. FX, 2024
Cover illustration, Losing Hit Points, James Lorimer & Company Ltd., 2024
Exhibition, "Canadian Focus in Angoulême: D’un océan à l’autre" (Curated by Thomas-Louis Côté), Angoulême, France 2024
Cover character illustration, School Statue Showdown, James Lorimer & Company Ltd., 2023
Invited instructor, Web Design, CBBC Career College Dartmouth, 2023
Invited instructor, Digital Marketing Fundamentals, CBBC Career College Dartmouth, 2023
Illustrator, Fair Winds & Following Seas, ZREO: Second Quest
Illustrator, Deal With It: Biphobia, James Lorimer & Company Ltd.,2023
Illustrator, animator, "Desi" & "Eddie" PHAC workshops, 2023, Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation
Illustrator, Interactive Educational Modules, Strong Minds Strong Kids Psychology Canada
Illustrator, UN17 Sustainable Development Goals, NSCC Annapolis Valley 2022
Invited Speaker, "Full Circle", for The Creative Kick 2022
Illustrator, PHAC Workshop, 2022 Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation
Illustrator, Fairy Robot to the Rescue, 2021 Lindsay B Books
Illustrator, A Mother's Day Surprise, 2021 Lindsay B Books
Illustrator, MathUp 2021, Rubicon Publishing
Illustrator, designer - COVID & web media, 2020-21 CAIC-ACCI
Illustrator, designer - GameKnight products, branding, 2021
Illustrator, Spray Days, for 50 Things, ZUPPA Theatre & EAC Nova Scotia 2021
Interview, Sequential Magazine #6 SPRING 2020
Illustrator, designer - Captured Halifax 2017-2019
Illustrator, product design - Shaun Gillis, Burger Ambassador campaign 2020
Illustrator, designer - ORPPG working group dissemination media, OA-Involve, AgeWell 2019
Illustrator, designer - HIV Health and Interaction study, 2018
Illustrator, designer - the OutLook Study, Wilfrid Laurier University, 2016-2018
ILLUSTRATION CLIENTS INCLUDE:
James Lorimer & Company Ltd.,
ZREO: Second Quest
Rubicon Publishing
Dr Peter AIDS foundation
Nova Scotia Community College
OA-INVOLVE
University of Waterloo: Games Institute
Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site
DESIGN CLIENTS INCLUDE:
SpeedPro Halifax
Minuteman Press, Lower Sackville
Captured, Halifax
SMARTech
Lucid Consultancy
Social Inclusion and Health Equity Research Group
Game Knight
CanCTO
Contact
I'm always up for new projects. Send me an email so we can discuss the next!
Kate Phillips
Halifax NS