Tomm Moore

Moore Brendan Secret Kells — *Brendan et le secret de Kells* (2009)

Tomm Moore (b. 7 January 1977) is an animator, illustrator and comics artist.

Born in Newry, County Down, the eldest of 4 children, he grew up in Kilkenny, where his father, Patrick, worked as an engineer. He studied classical animation at Ballyfermot College in Dublin. During his final year at Ballyfermot in 1998, he co-founded the Cartoon Saloon animation studio in Kilkenny with Paul Young, Ross Murray and Nora Twomey.

He drew An Sclábhaí ("the slave", 2001) and An Teachtaire ("the messenger", 2003), a pair of Irish language comics telling the story of St. Patrick, written by Colmán Ó Raghallaigh and published by Cló Mhaigh Eo. He drew "Cricket in a Bag", written by his sister Catherine Moore, for the 2008 GOAL benefit anthology Sorry I can't take your call right now but I'm off saving the world.

He directed the animated feature film The Secret of Kells (2009), which has been nominated for the 2010 Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film, and created a graphic novel version of it, which has been published in French as Brendan et le secret de Kells. The film was followed by Song of the Sea (2014) and Wolfwalkers (2020), together termed as the Irish Folklore Trilogy. A graphic novel adaptation of Wolfwalkers by Samuel Sattin was published on the same year as the film by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.

His illustrations have featured in several books including Gugalai Gug (2005) and The Story of Ireland (2009). He lives in Kilkenny with his wife Liselott Olofsson and son Ben.