Storytelling is life.

Rahsan ‘Rosa’ Ekedal is an artist, illustrator, and storyteller. She co-created the popular comic book THINK TANK (2012-2017), and illustrated the influential graphic novel SOLDIERS UNKNOWN (2019).

Other notable works include THE GIRL IN THE PHOTOGRAPHS (2015), and ECHOES (2011).

Rosa was born in California and now lives in Berlin, Germany with her family.


Rosa studied under Charles Pyle and Robert Revels in the famous Barbara Bradley School of Illustration at the Academy of Art University, San Francisco. She first received international recognition for the award-nominated graphic novel ECHOES (2011), and went on to co-create the shared universe of THINK TANK (2012-2017) and THE TITHE (2015). Rosa served as Storyboard Artist for Wes Craven’s THE GIRL IN THE PHOTOGRAPHS (2015), a Toronto International Film Festival selection directed by Craven’s protege, Nick Simon. In 2019, the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians published SOLDIERS UNKNOWN, a collaboration between Rosa and Indigenous author Chag Lowry, approved by the Yurok Tribe and the World War I Centennial Commission. Rosa and Chag continue to collaborate, most recently on the short story FOLLOW THE WATER (2021). She and Top Cow, a division of Image Comics, will soon announce a new dark fantasy series, with an exciting rising star writer. In addition, Rosa is developing a new series of independent graphic novels and picture books exploring the intersection of mythology and archeology through a Queer lens.


UPCOMING WORKS

[UNANNOUNCED FANTASY PROJECT] [SERIES ARTIST] Image Comics / Top Cow, 2025 (IN PRE-PRODUCTION).

FOLLOW THE WATER #2 [SERIES ARTIST] Original Voices, 2025 (IN PRODUCTION).

RECENT WORKS

EARTHDIVERS #7 [GUEST COVER ARTIST] IDW Entertainment, 2023.

ANTARCTICA #2 [GUEST COVER ARTIST] Image Comics / Top Cow, 2023.

DESTINY GATE #1 [GUEST COVER ARTIST] Image Comics / Top Cow, 2023.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

GHOST BAND [GUEST ARTIST] Polite Strangers Press, 2022.

BEYOND SUNSET #2 [GUEST ARTIST] “WEEKEND” (short), 2022.

FOLLOW THE WATER #1 [SERIES ARTIST] Original Voices, 2021.

SOLDIERS UNKNOWN [SERIES ARTIST] Great Oak Press, Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians, 2019.

THINK TANK Volume 5 [SERIES ARTIST] Top Cow Productions & Image Comics, 2017.

THE TITHE Volume 2 [SUPERVISING ARTIST] Top Cow Productions & Image Comics, 2016.

THINK TANK Volume 4 [SERIES ARTIST] Top Cow Productions & Image Comics, 2016.

THE ART OF RAHSAN EKEDAL [ARTIST] Top Cow Productions & Image Comics, 2016.

THE TITHE Volume 1 [SERIES ARTIST] Top Cow Productions & Image Comics, 2015.

THINK TANK Volume 3 [SERIES ARTIST] Top Cow Productions & Image Comics, 2014.

THINK TANK Volume 2 [SERIES ARTIST] Top Cow Productions & Image Comics, 2013.

SHORT HAND [SERIES ARTIST] Polite Strangers Press, 2013.

THINK TANK Volume 1 [SERIES ARTIST] Top Cow Productions & Image Comics, 2012.

DRACULA WORLD ORDER: THE BEGINNING [GUEST ARTIST] Ian Brill, 2012.

PILOT SEASON: THE TEST  [GUEST ARTIST] Top Cow Productions & Image Comics, 2011.

THE UNEXPECTED [GUEST ARTIST] Vertigo / DC Comics, 2011.

SOLOMON KANE: RED SHADOWS [SERIES ARTIST] Dark Horse Comics, 2011.

ECHOES [SERIES ARTIST] Top Cow Productions & Image Comics, 2010-2011. HARVEY AWARD NOMINATED

CREEPY [GUEST ARTIST] Dark Horse Comics, 2009-2010.

THE CLEANERS [SERIES ARTIST] Dark Horse Comics, 2009-2010.

WARHAMMER: CONDEMNED BY FIRE [SERIES ARTIST] Boom! Studios, 2008-2009.

WARHAMMER ONLINE: PRELUDE TO WAR [SERIES ARTIST] Boom! Studios, 2008.

WARHAMMER: BLOOD AND THUNDER [GUEST ARTIST] Boom! Studios, 2008.

WARHAMMER: FORGE OF WAR [SERIES ARTIST] Boom! Studios, 2007-2008.

FILM

THE GIRL IN THE PHOTOGRAPHS (storyboard artist) Wes Craven and Al-Ghanim Productions, 2015

MIGHTY MED (TV series) (concept artist, uncredited) Disney XD, 2013

THE CRAZIES (official comic tie-in) (art by) Overture Films and Starz Media, 2010.

THE WAVE (Short) (storyboard artist) Ursa Productions, 2011

IMDb Profile