Eleanor Crewes

Eleanor Crewes is a graphic novelist based in North London where she lives with her partner. Her upcoming novel 'Ghosts In My House' publishes with Virago on October 1st 2026 and explores themes of queer identity, secrecy and wish fulfillment.

Her debut graphic novel 'The Times I Knew I Was Gay' was originally created in 2017 as a 2-part, handmade and self-published zine, which Eleanor would bike across London to various comic shops. As demand grew her zine developed into a larger book that she published in 2018 with Good Comics. After selling out the first edition, she expanded it into a fully-fledged memoir with Virago (UK) and Scribner (US) for publication in 2020. Her middle grade graphic novel called 'Lilla, the Accidental Witch' was published by Little,Brown Young Readers in 2021.