Alex Hallatt

Alex Hallatt is a cartoonist and writer from the West Country in the UK. She has lived in the US, Australia, Spain and New Zealand, and has returned to Dorset, England, with her Jack Russell, Molly. Her illustrated memoirs capture life in the places she has called home: A New Zealand Diary chronicles her time in Lyttelton, near Christchurch, while A Basque Diary documents her years in the coastal town of Hondarribia, Spain.

Being bullied at school is something Alex remembers vividly. It inspired her first chapter book for 8–12 year olds: FAB (Friends Against Bullying) Club. FAB Club was the book she would have liked to read at that age and is a big hit with kids who want to stand up to bullying. The sequels are FAB Club 2: Friends Against Cyberbullying, and FAB Club 3: The Big Match. The first two books in the series were winners of Wishing Shelf book awards.

Alex is the creator of Arctic Circle, a syndicated comic strip distributed worldwide by King Features. It follows three penguins who have emigrated to the Arctic, with an underlying environmental theme. The first collection is available as an ebook: Arctic Circle Comics: An Introduction.

Her preschool book, Hoover the Hungry Dog, features a greedy yellow dog who first appeared in a website about lunch. The website is long gone, but Hoover was too fun a character to disappear with it.

Alex has also illustrated books for other publishers, including Walter Foster, Hachette Livre and Summersdale.

More of her work can be found on her website (which can't be linked to here, but is easy to find ), and she publishes a popular weekly illustrated newsletter on Substack, which covers Cartooning in the Age of AI, and A little Life in England.