Kruttika Susarla
Kruttika Susarla is an illustrator and cartoonist from Andhra Pradesh, India, working across editorial illustration, picture books, and comics. Her narrative work is bright, bold, and textural. She collaborates with community-engaged organizations in the U.S. and the Global South to create books, zines, and toolkits.
Susarla’s work for The Freedom Sisters (Pratham Books, 2024) won a gold medal from the Society of Illustrators and was included in the Illustrators 67th Annual Exhibition. Her self-published comics tell stories of connection, community, and labor. These works have been exhibited internationally, including at the Erlangen Comic Salon in Germany and the Fumetto Comic Festival in Switzerland. In 2022, she won the Cartoonist Cooperative Minicomic Award for Made in Heaven Inc. (2021), and in 2025, she won the Paper Rocket Publishing Prize for Alexander’s Curse (2024).
Susarla graduated with an MFA in Illustration & Visual Culture from Washington University in St. Louis in 2022. She lives and works in the United States.
