Joana Estrela

Joana Estrela started drawing family portraits at an early age, writing funny subtitles to go alongside them. One of her classic birthday gifts was a list of things-we-say-when-we’re-angry, applying the concept to different family members. Her mother, for example, once received her portrait together with all the various criticisms she’d typically make of her father, such as “Don’t scuff the rugs in our room!” or “You started to eat before you cut up your daughters’ food!”. Her methods haven’t changed a lot since then: what motivates her to start a book is still the amusement that it brings.

She studied Communication Design at the Faculdade de Belas Artes do Porto and in 2022, she began studying Graphic Storytelling at LUCA, in Brussels.

Books by Joana Estrela