Deshan Tennekoon

Deshan Tennekoon is a Sri Lankan writer of (mostly) children’s fiction. His books for Think Equal are used in their global SEL curriculum and one 6-year-old said they’re pretty not-bad.

A middle-grade graphic novel he co-wrote is due from Oni Press (2023). His comic Metta Helmet, (art by Isuri Dayaratne) appeared in the Eisner and Ignatz Award-winning anthology, Elements: Fire.

He once wrote an overview of Sri Lankan art and design for the Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of Asian Design. To recover, he wrote and ‘drew’ a 50-page absurdist comic about time, soup and god. It’s called Wait Non Anon and you can read here for free, but it’s a bit odd: https://tinyurl.com/9pczhm6y

Probably safer buying Mary Anning’s Grewsome Beasts...

He’s can be found online as @onlinedesho on Instagram, @deshan10 on Twitter or at www.onlinedesho.com