About Alison McCreesh

Alison McCreesh is an Eisner Award Nominated cartoonist, fibre artist and illustrator who lives in Yellowknife, in the Canadian Sub Arctic.

Alison is the creator of several graphic novels, including the graphic memoir Degrees of Separation, named one of the Best Canadian Comics of 2024 by CBC Books. In the past year, Alison is honoured to have been guest at several festivals and events, including the Vancouver Writers Festival, the Stockholm International Comics Festival and the Toronto Comic Arts Festival.
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When Alison isn't busy making art, she enjoys hiking, camping and being outside with her 3 young children.

Some kind words

Lynn Johnston

“The Short Years by Alison McCreesh took me back to my own short years when For Better or For Worse helped me to survive parenthood and my own evolving sense of self. Alison’s “New Yorker” style of drawing and her rich, poignant wit make her book a must-read for all who are in the throes of managing a contemporary family—and for those of us who (with relief) are looking back!”

Tom Hart

“I love this book! I wish I took better notes raising my kid. Luckily I have this marvelous book to remind me of how delightful and funny raising kids is.”

Joe Sacco

“The tension between free-spirited off-grid living and prosaic adult responsibility runs through Alison McCreesh’s tender and loving ode to the people and landscapes of the Far North.”

Elizabeth Hay

"Here’s a graphic novel that’s an education and an entertainment. Drawings and text zero in on the personal and quirky, then open wide for long, compelling views of a fraught yet alluring northern world. Degrees of Separation is fascinating and endearing, pointed and one of a kind, and it all rings beautifully true."

Richard Van Camp

“Fans of Linda Barry’s Ernie Pook’s Comeek, Craig Thompson’s Blankets, Kate Beaton’s Ducks and Jeff Lemire’s Essex County series are going to feel right at home with Alison McCreesh’s Degrees of Separation: A Decade North of 60. What a treasure. Mahsi cho, Alison, for sharing all of this exquisiteness with us. You’re always up to magic!

Andy Oliver

"In Norths Alison McCreesh ensures that the reader feel less like a detached observer and more like an unseen fourth family member, experiencing their adventures alongside them. Appealing and incredibly likeable, there’s a delightful contradiction at the core of this book – that something so profound can be expressed in the trappings of something so ephemeral."

-Broken Frontier (May 31, 2018)