Fred Fordham was born in 1985 and lives in North London. He worked as a portrait painter while studying politics and philosophy at university, where he discovered comics after reading Marjane Sutrapi's Persepolis. He has written and illustrated for various publications and worked on several graphic novels, most recently adapting the script for Aya Morton's illustration of The Great Gatsby. In 2018 he adapted and illustrated Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.