Publications

• Autobiographical comics published online for Newsberg (2025-2026)
• Topical comics published online for Undivided (2022-2026)
• Educational comics published online for Organic Valley (2023-2024)

• Autobiographical comics for The Washington Post / The Lily (2018-2023)

• Educational comic published online for the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project (2020)

• Weekly comics illustrated for "Manga Sensei" website (2018-2019)

• Educational comic published online by Honey Rose Haven (2018)
• Autobio comic included in “Draw Out the Vote,” a comics guide by Oni Press (2018)
• Autobio comic included in Served: A Missionary Comics Anthology (2018)
• Two topical comics published online by The Hired Pen (2018)
• Three short autobio comics published online by The Nib (2017)
• Several comics printed in My Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades, nonfiction book by Trina Boice (2014)
• Included in Trip #7 anthology by Éditions Trip (2012)
• Editorial cartoons published online and in print for The University Journal (2011)

Awards

2026 Rhode Island Children's Book Award Nominee for The Happy Shop

2025 Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award Nominee for The Happy Shop

2024 AML Award – Comics finalist for The Happy Shop

2023 AML Award – Comics finalist for Are You My Mother?

2020 AML Award – Comics finalist for Magic in the Valley

2018 AML Award – Comics finalist for Comic Diaries Volume 1

2017 AML Award – Comics finalist for ComicDiaries.com

2015 AML Award – Comics winner for DENDO: One Year and One Half in Tokyo

Press

• "The Happy Shop," Comics Worth Reading (2024)
• "Happiness is for sale in new middle-grade OGN The Happy Shop by Brittany Long Olsen," The Pop Verse (2023)
• "Meet Brittany Long Olsen," Canvas Rebel Magazine (2023)
• "Brittany Long Olsen Brings The Happy Shop to Oni in 2024," Bleeding Cool (2022)
• "‘Comic Diaries Volume 1' shares in a graphic novel what happens after a Latter-day Saint mission," Deseret News (2019)
• "A Comic Mision," Y Magazine (2018)

• "Former LDS missionary creates graphic novel based on experience," KSL (2015)

Exhibitions

January 2018: “Dendo in Real Life” exhibition of original manuscript pages with photographs, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

 

Fall 2016 – Spring 2017: Original graphic novel manuscript pages on display in “Comics and Mormons,” Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

Collections

“DENDO: One Year and One Half in Tokyo,” entire original manuscript in 21st-century Mormonism and Western Americana, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

 

Multiple oil paintings and watercolor paintings in private collections

Education

2011 – Southern Utah University; Cedar City, UT

Bachelor of Arts in English – Creative Writing

Minor in Art – Illustration