Molly Ostertag

• Born 1991-10-28

Molly Ostertag is an Ignatz and Prism Award winning graphic novelist, as well as a writer for children's TV animation. She currently lives in Los Angeles, where she's worked as a designer on the show Star vs. the Forces of Evil (Disney TVA) and as a writer for Thundercats Roar (Warner Bros.). She is currently a staff writer on the upcoming show The Owl House (Disney TVA). Her award-winning middle-grade graphic novel debut, The Witch Boy, came out in 2017 from Scholastic, followed by the sequel The Hidden Witch in 2018. She also put out an award-winning book from First Second, Shattered Warrior, with author Sharon Shinn, and was the artist on the first four issues of The Castoffs with MK Reed and Brian C Smith. She illustrates a twice-weekly webcomic about superheroes and social justice, Strong Female Protagonist, with partner in crime Brennan Lee Mulligan. They have run two successful Kickstarters to fund the first and second volumes, and it's currently distributed by Top Shelf.