At age 5, Elizabeth wanted to be a wild horse trainer / ballerina. None of those panned out, so she settled for drawing as many ballerinas and horses as she could.
At age 13, she made a story about a grumpy elf with a pet snail and it was published through a contest for kids. This ignited a lifelong passion for storytelling—whether through illustration, comics, or ideally...around a campfire with friends.
Fast forward to now, (skipping the part about art school, depression, and writing terrible poems on typewriters), her current days are filled with non-fiction illustration—biographical, historical, political & sometimes poetical-philosophical.
She is also the art + editorial director at Illustoria magazine, published by McSweeney’s. Inside its colorful, curiosity-inducing pages, we celebrate comics, stories & DIY.
She lives in Portland, Oregon.
Elizabeth Haidle is an illustrator based in Portland, Oregon. She is the creative director for Illustoria magazine, as well as a collaborator at Mascot Press, an independent comics publisher.
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