Tula Lotay is the pen name of illustrator Lisa Wood. Born and raised in Yorkshire, England, Tula specializes in comics, film and editorial illustration, as well as being the founder and former director of the world-renowned Thought Bubble Festival.
Tula is best known for her interior work on Bodies, All-Star Batman, Supreme Blue Rose and Scarlet Witch. She is also a prolific and accomplished cover artist, working regularly for Marvel, DC, Image and Boom! Studios along with being a regular contributor on the fronts of such series as Catwoman, The Walking Dead, Faithless and Bloodshot Reborn. Outside of comics, Lotay is a mainstay in the alternative film poster scene, contributing art to officially licensed projects such as Marvel Studio’s Black Widow, The Handmaiden, Personal Shopper, The Last of Us and many others.
In 2015 she was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book for The Wicked and The Divine #13. This was followed up with more accolades when Tula was awarded the Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award by the San Diego Comic Con Eisner committee for her charitable and fundraising work in 2019. She is also a multi-Eisner winning artist, with a 3-year win streak that started in 2023 when she won an award for Best Digital Comic for Barnstormers with Scott Snyder and Comixology. In 2024 she followed it up with Best New Series for Somna. In 2025, she bagged her third award for Best Cover Artist of the year.
Somna was her first book as a DSTLRY founding member and was both a written and drawn with fellow Kinetic creator Becky Cloonan. Currently, she has just complated Groupies with Helene Mullane at Comixology and is beggining another longterm project.
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