Paige Braddock graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in illustration from UT. She is the Chief Creative Officer at Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates which, in partnership with the Schulz family, oversees the creative and editorial direction for Peanuts products worldwide. In 2023 she received a Canadian Screen Award for The Snoopy Show as Best Animated Program or Series. In 2023, Braddock also received an Annie Award for Best Animated Special Production by the International Animated Film Society for, One-of-a-Kind Marcie and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Art degree from Montserrat College in Beverly, Massachusetts. Braddock won a Children’s & Family Emmy Award for her work on the Apple documentary, Who Are You, Charlie Brown? which won for Outstanding Nonfiction Program in 2022. Braddock has illustrated several Peanuts children’s books and graphic novels. The Snoopy US postage stamp issued in April 2001 was designed by Braddock.
Outside her work with Peanuts, Braddock is best known for her Eisner-nominated comic strip, Jane’s World, the first gay-themed comic work to receive online distribution by a national media syndicate in the US. Braddock concluded the comic strip after completing its 20-year run in 2018. To celebrate the ground-breaking comic’s 20th anniversary, Braddock released a special anthology with Lion Forge in August 2018, Love Letters To Jane. In 2019 it was selected as a Lambda Literary finalist for best LGBTQ graphic novel. The anthology collects some of the comic’s most notable storylines and pairs them with love letters from fans and comic creators. Installments of Jane’s World can continue to be found at GoComics.
In 2015, she published a line of graphic novels for children with Andrews McMeel. There are currently three books in the Stinky Cecil series. In 2020, Braddock began work on a new series for children titled, Peanut, Butter and Crackers which was published by Viking. The Peanut, Butter and Crackers series has been translated into six languages, and the fourth book in the series is currently in production.
Braddock’s career began in newspapers, and she spent 12 years working as a graphic artist and illustrator in places as disparate as Chicago, Atlanta, and Jackson, Mississippi. She now spends much of her time making comics and graphic novels for kids using all of the stories she saved along the way. Her characters range from talking toads to dapper dogs, and she especially loves to draw animals wearing human clothes and doing human things.
