![]() ![]() ![]() 2019 Ignatz Award - Winner, Outstanding Comic.The sequel, Check, Please!: Sticks & Scones, was a New York Times bestseller in May 2020. In 2018, the first installment, Check, Please!: #Hockey, was published by First Second Books. Ukazu created a Kickstarter campaign in 2015 to print the first volume of the comic the campaign resulted in the highest-funded comics project in Kickstarter's history. Ukazu launched Check, Please! as a webcomic in 2013 after writing a screenplay about Eric "Bitty" Bittle, a gay college freshman and champion figure skater who joins a hockey team. She studied computer science, obtaining a degree in Computing and The Arts from Yale University in 2013 and earned a masters degree in Sequential Art from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2015. She attended Bellaire High School, where she contributed to the school’s newspaper, The Three Penny Press, as the comics editor. In 2013, she created the webcomic Check, Please!, which later became a New York Times-bestselling graphic novel. Ngozi Ukazu is an American cartoonist and graphic novelist. "Digital Book of the Year" Harvey Award (2019) ![]()
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