About Me

I am, among other things:

• Mostly female
• A Dr Who fan
• Slightly neurotic
• Happy to serve
• Powered by Dutch cheese
• In love with the terrible beauty of life, the universe and everything

Things I believe in include:

• The power of mindfulness
• The right to be beautiful, regardless of how you look
• Ghosts
• Mathematics

History:

I was born a little Dutch girl and lived among the tulips with my parents, two brothers and a sister. I was a rambler, a voracious reader and could not go a day without making something out of something. Sometimes my materials were normal things like coloured paper or beads, sometimes they included soap, grass, dead insects or sugarcubes. Mixed media, you see.

I went to university in the same pleace Lemuel Gulliver got his education: Leiden University. Studying at a university whose most famous graduate is not only fictional but a famous fabricator of lies may have damaged my respect for the True and the Real, but certainly didn’t dampen my enthusiasm for stories. I wrote, and soon combined my writing with my drawing and started making comics.

These days I live in Bristol, in England. It’s a dirty, jealous city but I love it for its street art. Secretly, I want to move to the country and live in a canal boat, but for now, we put up with each other, the city and I.

I draw, I write, I make things, and I sell my time to the civil service while hatching an escape plan.

If you want to hang out, try twitter: @williehewes. This is not my only website; for more of me, you could visit ITCH Publishing, home of my miniature publishing company. Final factoid: Willie is not short for Wilhelmina. It’s short for William.

Yup.