Charlie Charlton (born 1987 in Arlington, Texas) is a comics artist and writer whose work braids urban folklore, transit nerdery, and slice-of-life humor into punchy panels and sprawling nightscapes. After studying sequential art at SCAD, Charlton storyboarded for indie animation shops in Austin and taught comics workshops at Dallas Makerspace, where they are known to ink with a ticket stub as often as a brush.
Their risograph zines Cyclone Alley and Median Strip built a regional following and led to newspaper-style serials for a Fort Worth weekly. In longer form, Charlton maps the seams where trains, ghost stories, and municipal bylaws meet, in books like Monsters in the Metroplex and Gramophone: A Fable. Across reportage-inflected shorts and expansive graphic fables, they favor clear lines, tactile sound effects, marginalia that reads like engineering notes, and endpaper maps you can actually use to get lost on purpose.
Charlton lives in Fort Worth's Near Southside with a partner and a pit bull named Juno, usually catching the last train home when ideas will not quit. When not at the drafting table, they chase field recordings under bridges, ride the TRE for reference, and host community sketch nights about wayfinding, signage, and the stories that live between stations.
