Siddell, Thomas
Entry updated 13 January 2026. Tagged: Artist, Author, Comics.
(? - ) UK videogame animator and cartoonist, also known as Tom Siddell; best known for the long-running webcomic Gunnerkrigg Court which began in April 2005. Gunnerkrigg Court centres on Antimony "Annie" Carver and her friend Katerina "Kat" Donlan in a surreal UK boarding school. The story contrasts the semi-mythical forest outside of the school with a large urban sprawl of mostly lifeless school grounds. Annie Carver takes on the role of "forest medium" to serve as a liaison between the trickster deity Coyote and the Court, while also reckoning with her late mother's job of guiding the recently departed into the afterlife (see Eschatology). Kat Donlan opens a mechanical workshop to tinker with the many stray Robots wandering the cityscape, culminating in giving them a new life and her mechanically augmenting herself (see Cyborgs). Other classmates have abilities ranging from Teleportation to uncontrollable destructive reality-warping. Many chapters of Gunnerkrigg Court serve as stand-alone stories in which the protagonists slowly unravel the mysteries of the setting. Shadow People invade the school grounds, fairies give up their lives in order to be reborn as students, an archaic phantasm guards the border between the two lands, and The Realm of the Dead is accessible to anyone who claims to be a ghost. As Gunnerkrigg Court moves into its final act, the forest lashes out against the industrial Court and the grand conspiracy of the school's staff to travel to a new planet is revealed. Gunnerkrigg Court has been published in print by Archaia Entertainment in eight volumes between 2008 and 2021 [see Checklist below].
Siddell has produced two side-comics – Annie in the Forest (2013) and Coyote! (2018-2020) – which he originally released at Conventions before making them free on his website. Gunnerkrigg Court is still ongoing. [MS]
Thomas Siddell
born UK
works
graphic works
Gunnerkrigg Court
- Gunnerkrigg Court: Volume 1: Orientation (Hollywood, California: Archaia Studios Press, 2008) [graph: Gunnerkrigg Court: hb/Thomas Siddell]
- Gunnerkrigg Court: Volume 2: Research (Hollywood, California: Archaia Studios Press, 2010) [graph: Gunnerkrigg Court: hb/Thomas Siddell]
- Gunnerkrigg Court: Volume 3: Reason (Hollywood, California: Archaia Studios Press, 2011) [graph: Gunnerkrigg Court: hb/Thomas Siddell]
- Gunnerkrigg Court: Volume 4: Materia (Hollywood, California: Archaia Studios Press, 2013) [graph: Gunnerkrigg Court: hb/Thomas Siddell]
- Gunnerkrigg Court: Volume 5: Refine (Hollywood, California: Archaia Studios Press, 2015) [graph: Gunnerkrigg Court: hb/Thomas Siddell]
- Gunnerkrigg Court: Volume 6: Dissolve (Hollywood, California: Archaia Studios Press, 2018) [graph: Gunnerkrigg Court: hb/Thomas Siddell]
- Gunnerkrigg Court: Volume 7: Synthesis (Hollywood, California: Archaia Studios Press, 2019) [graph: Gunnerkrigg Court: hb/Thomas Siddell]
- Gunnerkrigg Court: Volume 8: Catalysis (Hollywood, California: Archaia Studios Press, 2021) [graph: Gunnerkrigg Court: hb/Thomas Siddell]
links
- https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/Gunnerkrigg Court
- Gunnerkrigg Court fan wiki
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