Ariel Slamet Ries is an eggplant and/or human from Melbourne, Australia. After studying animation at The Animation Workshop in Denmark for 4 years, they lost their degree in the post and unceremoniously bumbled into making comics for a living. In their free time you might find them sewing badly, making music badly, or looking at pictures of opossums screaming.
Their first two major print releases, Witchy and Cry Wolf Girl, were released 2019, with Witchy Volume 2 (Oni Press) releasing in March of 2022. They are currently squirreled away in a hermitage creating their fourth book, Strange Bedfellows, set for release in 2024 from Harper Collins.
For all book and book-adjacent inquiries, please contact Ariel’s agent: Linda Camacho of Gallt and Zacker Literary Agency at linda@galltzacker.com
For other inquiries, email Ariel at arielsries@gmail.com
Awards and Nominations
Witchy — 2020 Ignatz for Outstanding Online Comic — winner
Cry Wolf Girl — 2020 Ignatz for Outstanding Comic — Winner
Witchy — 2020 Comics Arts Awards of Australia — Gold Winner
Witchy — 2017 + 2018 Danish “Pingprisen” for Best Online Series — Nominated
Witchy — 2016 DINKy for Outstanding Web Comic — Nominated
Witchy — 2015 Ignatz for Outstanding Online Comic — Nominated