Gill Hatcher

2016

Gill Hatcher

Age: 28
Location: North Lanarkshire

Gill is an artist and the founder of a comic collection called Team Girl Comic, a project that brings together women cartoonists in Glasgow to publish their work in an anthology.

Gill has published on her own too, most notably The Beginners Guide to Being Outside in 2014, which was nominated for a British Comic Award and a Scottish Independent Comic Book Award, and The Seagull Appreciation Society in 2015, which was nominated for a Scottish Indie Comic Book Award.

She’s also a full-time design researcher, and was working on a PhD in sustainable design when she launched TGC. In her day job, Gill is looking at how to use humour in the design process for engineers.