10/14/2026
Meet Gillian. She’s a mentor at One River and a published cartoonist. She wrote The Archie Encyclopedia and colors for Archie Comics.
Gillian joined One River Frisco (TX) in high school, after taking a trial class on opening day. She became a member, then an assistant, then left for art school. “Four years and one degree later, I returned to One River as a teacher! After all those years away, I love our school so much and am so happy to be back.”
Her favorite classes to teach are grades 3 to 5 cartooning. It’s the age she makes her own comics for.
She shows young makers her work and how the skills they’re learning now can go professional.
Outside of class, she sews, reads books and comics (she owns thousands of them!), and sells her own comics at conventions.
One of her digital makers had gotten really good at Photoshop. Gillian asked where she learned it. “She had to remind me that I was the one who taught her Photoshop,” Gillian says.
Read more about what makes Gillian a standout mentor at https://hubs.la/Q04Bc1BL0
