About Liana

Liana Kangas is a freelance comic artist, illustrator, and writer, with previous professional history in graphic design and outreach.

Current works include drawing and co-creating the comic miniseries TRVE KVLT, written by Scott Bryan Wilson published by IDW, drawing a short written by James Tynion IV for Razorblades, published by Image Comics and contributing to a short with David Booher on CANTO, Tales of the Unnamed World.

Liana has also worked on the IDW/LucasFilm title Star Wars Adventures written by Sam Maggs, co-writing the short one-shot Seeds of Eden, co-written by Joe Corallo, drawn by Paul Azaceta, and published by TKO Studios, co-created and drew a mini series titled She Said Destroy, written by Corallo and published by Vault Comics, and the BlackAF series title Devil's Dye written by Vita Ayala published by Black Mask Studios.

Liana’s work has been featured in anthologies including 2000AD, Z2’s The Final Symphony, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Blondie: Against The Odds, Comic Mix’s Mine!, Image Comics Where We Live, and A Wave Blue World’s All We Ever Wanted, Dead Beats, Embodied and Dead Beats: London Calling.

Liana has drawn covers for series published with Image Comics, IDW, Comixology, Oni Press, Ahoy, Vault, Mad Cave and Scout and licenses such as Star Trek, Star Wars, Dark Spaces: Wildfire, and more.

You can find fun features of Liana’s work on Nerdist, SYFY Artists Alley, Panel x Panel as well as featured articles on Deadline Hollywood, Newsarama, Paste Magazine, AIPT, Doom Rocket, Multiversity, Comics Beat, Vice, and Comics Alliance.

Find Liana on social media below or shoot over a message on the contact form.

Press:

• Project: Cryptid (Screenrant)

• The 30 Best Comics of 2022 (The Mary Sue)

• The Dark Side of Riverdale (Archie Comics, Screenrant)

• KNOW YOUR STATION Mixes Sci-Fi & Noir to Address Class Warfare (review)

• The Return of Chilling Adventures in Sorcery (Archie Comics)

• Star Trek NYCC Announcement and Cover Debuts

• Judging by the Cover AIPT

• AIPT’s Trve Kvlt Release Date

• AV Club Snyder’s Dark Spaces Variant Announcement

• Tamron Hall Show: Visible Women with Kelly Sue Deconnick

• Deadline Hollywood’s IDW Unveils Trve Kvlt

• Featured Multiversity Breakout Artists

• SYFY Wire Hot Kickstarters

• Panel x Panel Creator Corner

• SKTCHD Live Instagram Interview

• She Said Destroy Full Issue The Beat

• SYFY Wire Video Interview

• SYFY Wire Artist Spotlight

• She Said Destroy Interview The Beat

• The Mary Sue Book Club (She Said Destroy)

• Paste Magazine Black AF: Devil’s Dye

Clients & Publishers Include:

Archie Comics, IDW Publishing, Star Wars (Lucas Film), Star Trek, Image Comic Series, Oni Press, 2000AD, Vault Comics, Z2 (The RZA, Joan Jett and The Black Hearts and BLONDIE), Ahoy Comics, TKO Studios, Kings Features, Scrappy Heart Productions (AJ Mendez and Aimee Garcia), Scout Comics and more…

Podcasts:

• WMQ&A Podcast with Gailey

• 22 Panels Podcast

• Comic Book Yeti Podcast with Gailey

• Archie and Me Podcast with Jordan Morris

• Capes and Tights Podcast

• Comic Book Squares with Gailey

• Big Story Podcast

• Off Panel 382

• Englishman in San Diego - With Jazzlyn Stone

• Comic Book Workshop

• Healthy Geek Academy

• CCM

• Off Panel 259

• Nerdist News Talks Back

• Talking to Ghosts

• Concentric Circles

• Comic Cast

• Pages and Panels

• Creator Talks Podcast

• Comic News Insider

• The Sartorial Geek

• WMQ&A

• Graphic Policy Radio

• Fresh is the Word

• 2000AD Thrillhour