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Kruttika Susarla is an illustrator and cartoonist from Andhra Pradesh, India, working across editorial illustration, picture books, and comics. She collaborates with community-engaged organizations in the US and the Global South to create books, zines, and toolkits.

Her narrative work is bright, bold, and textural. Kruttika’s work for The Freedom Sisters (Pratham Books, 2024) won a gold medal from the Society of Illustrators and was a part of the Illustrators 67th Annual Exhibition.

Her self-published comics tell stories of connection, community, and labour. Her comics 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 Coop Minicomic award for Made in Heaven Inc. (self-published, 2021) and in 2025, she won the Paper Rocket Publishing award for Alexander’s Curse (2024).

Kruttika lives and works in the United States.

kruttikas[at]gmail.com
Represented by Kait Feldmann at KT Literary for books
Instagram: @kruttika

Clients include Interrupting Criminalization, Edutopia, Center for Urban Pedagogy, New York Working Families Party, Human Rights Watch, Stop AAPI Hate, Positive Negatives | SOAS, The New Yorker, UN Women, Washington University in St. Louis, Illustoria, Google, Washington Post, The New York Times, AARP, Urgent Action Fund Asia & Pacific, The Society of Illustrators, HarperCollins India, Pratham Books, Rutgers NL, Speaking Tiger, Goethe Institut, Penguin Randomhouse India, Internet Freedom Foundation

All work is © Kruttika Susarla unless stated otherwise.