PUBLICATIONS

Shirley & Jamila’s Big Fall - the anticipated, award-winning sequel came out in 2021. Available for purchase here.

Shirley & Jamila Save their Summer - a middle grade graphic novel by Gillian Goerz. Published by Dial Books for Young Readers, July 2020. Available for purchase now.

Femme Magnifique, a comic anthology telling the stories of unsung women from the past and present. Edited by Shelly Bond. (Black Crown, 2018)

Mine! A Celebration of Liberty and freedom for all, benefiting Planned Parenthood. Comic anthology. (ComicMix, 2017)

Ongoing illustration work for The Canadian Encyclopedia:
Celebrating the Stanley Cup and the Birth of the NHL
Mothers of Confederation
The No. 2 Construction Battalion
The Battle Of Ridgeway

Romeo and/or Juliet,  by Ryan North (Riverhead, 2016)

The Secret Loves of Geek Girls. "A First." by Gillian G. Ed. Hope Nicholson. Bedside Press, 2015. Dark Horse Comics reissue forthcoming, October 2016. (Gillian's comic listed as "a highlight" of the comic and writing anthology, by CBC Books)

Gillian Goerz and Mariko Tamaki. "Feminism." (an online comic) thewalrus.ca. Walrus Foundation, 2015 http://thewalrus.ca/feminism/

Chicken Game (a comic by Gillian Goerz and Mariko Tamaki). The Humber Literary Review, Issue 2, Volume 1, 2014/15. 

Descant 163: Cartooning Degree Zero (featuring the comic Christie's Smile by Gillian Goerz and Mariko Tamaki), 2014

Shameless Magazine (editorial illustration, various issues) 2013-2014

To Be Or Not To Be, by Ryan North (Breadpig, 2013)

AWARDS

Doug Wright “Egghead” Award Winner, for Excellence in Canadian Children’s Comics, to Shirley & Jamila’s Big Fall. 2022.

Creative Quarterly 42, Runner Up: "Mothers of Confederation" series. Client: The Canadian Encyclopedia. Spring 2016

Creative Quarterly 35, Runner Up: "Say Hello to Spiri." Client:  Pleiades. Summer, 2014

Gillian Goerz (pronounced like “Jillian Gertz”) works in illustration, graphic recording, cartooning, writing and brush lettering. Her middle grade graphic novel Shirley & Jamila Save Their Summer spent 7 weeks on the Canadian Best Seller list, received stars from Kirkus and Publishers Weekly and was warmly reviewed by the New York Times Review of Books. Her follow-up book Shirley & Jamila’s Big Fall (Dial, 2021) won the Doug Wright Award for excellence in children's comics.

As a graphic recorder, Gillian has taken lively visual notes and created animated explainer videos for companies like Audi, Volkswagon, Mondelez International, the Canadian Opera Company, Pizza Hut and many more.

Gillian loves drawing and talking about comics and creativity with people of all ages. Book her to speak here.

Represented by Anjali Singh at the Anjali Singh Agency.

CLIENTS

The New York Times

Volkswagon Canada

Audi Canada

Scholastic

EFTO: The Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario

The Canadian Opera Company

Out of The Binders

Playwrites Canada Press

White Ribbon

The Second Cup

The Walrus

The Canadian Encyclopedia/Historica Canada

Caplansky's Delicatessen

The Drake Hotel / The Drake One Fifty / The Drake Devonshire Inn

Globe and Mail

Jacknife

Art from KaOs

InViVo

Johnson & Johnson 

Normative

Pleiades

Lilly's Lunches

Curbside Cycle

Rebel Unit

Persephone Theatre

Saskatoon District Health

City of Saskatoon

PRESS

“Drawing out the Weirdness” - Profile by Rebecca Huval for FOLKS magazine.

"I'm not gonna lie, I'm kinda scared" - Article by Stanford Journalism Fellow Veronica Chambers her experience and our collaberation. 

"Gillian Goerz: Notebook (2014)" - Blog feature of my installation at The Drake Devonshire Inn, Prince Edward County.