Mandy Ord

{{Short description|Australian artist (born 1974)}} {{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox artist | name = Mandy Ord | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1974 | birth_place = Sydney, NSW | death_date = | death_place = | movement = | field = Illustrator/Cartoonist | training = Bachelor of Visual Arts, Australian National University (ANU) Canberra School of Art, Canberra, ACT | works = }} '''Mandy Ord''' (born 1974) is a Melbourne-based comic artist. Her work has appeared in ''The Age'', ''Meanjin'', The ''Australian Rationalist'' magazine, ''Voiceworks'', ''Tango'', ''Going Down Swinging'' and ''Red Leaves / 紅葉''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mwf.com.au/2009/content/mwf_2009_standard.asp?name=OrdM |title=Mandy Ord | Melbourne Writers Festival |accessdate=2009-09-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090830144049/http://www.mwf.com.au/2009/content/mwf_2009_standard.asp?name=OrdM |archivedate=2009-08-30 }}</ref> Since 2009 Ord has also had a regular comic strip published in ''Trouble (magazine)''. In 2004, she was nominated for the Ledger Award for Small Press Title of the Year for her comic ''Dirty Little Creep''.<ref>Ledger Award</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/23314928|title=Dirty little creep|last=Ord|first=Mandy|date=2004|publisher=[Eltham, Vic. : Mandy Ord]|language=English}}</ref>

Ord's earliest published work was in her own book ''Wilnot'' in 1994.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.daao.org.au/main/read/4910|title = Mandy Ord :: Biography at :: At Design and Art Australia Online}}</ref> Her first graphic novel was a collaboration with Amber Carvan, ''Brick Dog and Other Stories'' 2002,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/672803|title=Brick dog and other stories|last1=Carvan|first1=Amber|last2=Ord|first2=Mandy|date=2002|publisher=Pluto Press|isbn=978-1-86403-190-4|location=Annandale, N.S.W}}</ref> followed by her first solo graphic novel ''Rooftops'' 2007, published by Findlay Lloyd.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/archived/bookshow/rooftops-mandy-ords-graphic-novel/3256290|title=Rooftops: Mandy Ord's graphic novel|date=2008-04-03|website=Radio National|language=en-AU|access-date=2019-04-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/46365650|title=Rooftops : a graphic novel|last=Ord|first=Mandy|date=2007|publisher=Braidwood, N.S.W. : Finlay Lloyd|isbn=978-0-9775677-2-0|language=English}}</ref> Ord is also the author of minicomics ''Ordinary Eyeball'' (2006)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/23237541|title=Ordinary eyeball|last=Ord|first=Mandy|date=2006|publisher=[Melbourne] : Mark Selan|language=English}}</ref> and ''Sensitive Creatures'' (2004).<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/23150129|title=Sensitive creatures|last=Ord|first=Mandy|date=2005|publisher=[Eltham, Vic.] : Mandy Ord|language=English}}</ref>

Ord's book, ''When One Person Dies the Whole World Is Over'', was longlisted for the 2020 Stella Prize.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.booktopia.com.au/blog/2020/02/06/see-the-2020-stella-prize-longlist/|title=See the 2020 Stella Prize longlist!|date=2020-02-06|website=The Booktopian|language=en-AU|access-date=2020-02-06}}</ref>

== Works == * ''Brick Dog and Other Stories'' co-author with Amber Carvan (2002) * ''Rooftops: A graphic novel'' (2007) * ''Sensitive Creatures'' (2nd Ed, 2011) * ''NY: A graphic story'' (2013) * ''Chalk Boy'', illustrator, (2018) * ''Galápagos'' (2018) * ''When One Person Dies the Whole World Is Over'' (2019)

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== External links == * {{Official website|https://mandyord.com}} * [http://mandyord.blogspot.com/ Ord] * [http://www.daao.org.au/main/read/4910 Dictionary of Australian Artists Online – Mandy Ord]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ord, Mandy}} Category:Australian comics artists Category:Living people Category:Australian women artists Category:1974 births Category:Australian women comics artists Category:21st-century Australian women writers Category:21st-century Australian women artists