Mike Hawthorne

Mike Hawthorne is an American comic book artist known for his work on books such as Deadpool, G.I. JOE: Origins, Queen & Country, Conan: Road of Kings, and his own creator-owned book, Hysteria. Mike Hawthorne’s mother was left alone to raise her son in New York City, a city that tormented them both with its unforgiving nature. But when Mike fell victim to an old-world Santeria death curse, she begins a series of events that drive him away both physically and emotionally. In Happiness Will Follow (Archaia) for the first time, Hawthorne tells the true and tragic story of enduring abuse, discovering a love of art, and a passion that helped him to build the home he never had in this graphic novel memoir about family, survival, and what it means to be Puerto Rican in America. In a starred review Publishers Weekly praised it noting “Hawthorne doesn’t hold anything back in this gut punch of a graphic memoir.”