Cole Pauls

Cole Pauls is a Champagne and Aishihik Citizen and Tahltan comic artist, illustrator & printmaker hailing from Haines Junction (Yukon Territory) with a BFA in Illustration from Emily Carr University. Residing in Vancouver, Pauls focuses on his two comic series, the first being Pizza Punks: a self contained comic strip about punks eating pizza, the other being Dakwakada Warriors. In 2017, Pauls won Broken Pencil Magazine's Best Comic and Best Zine of the Year Award for Dakwakada Warriors II. In 2020, Dakwakada Warriors won Best Work in an Indigenous Language from the Indigenous Voices Awards and was nominatd for two Doug Wright Award categories: The Egghead and The Nipper.