Clare Foley is a Berlin-based illustrator and comic creator from Ireland. She works in traditional media, using watercolour and pencil, sometimes accompanied by hand-lettering.

She released her first comic, La Grande Breteche in 2016, followed by Frozen Waste (written by Aaron Fever) in 2017, and the Blood Runs Cold anthology in 2018 (featuring stories written by Paul Carroll, Gary Moloney, JP Jordan, PJ Holden, and lettered by Paul Carroll, Kevin Keane and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou). In 2020 she released her successful Herpetology Tarot deck. In 2021 she collaborated as part of the Creative Centenaries project to create the historical comic Eoin MacNeill. In 2021 and 2022 she had work featured in two Limit Break Comics anthologies, Turning Roads and Down Below. She released Breathe in 2023 (featured in The Irish Times, December 2023), and was selected as one of the 120 international featured artists for the Shortbox Comic Fair. She created The Music on the Hill for launch at the fair. 2024 saw the launch of Fear and Fever, her historical comic collaboration about typhoid in Dublin written Carly Collier and Claas Kirchhelle – a collaboration between University College Dublin, University of Oxford, Royal College of Physicians Ireland, Dublin City Library and Archive, and part of the Typhoidland project. Her new title Forbidden Altars recently launched at Comics Invasion Berlin in May 2024.

She has been part of a number of collaborative projects including with GCN/BelongTo, Linen Hall Library & PRONI, and Alliance Francaise. She has published with Rogue Comics Ireland (La Grande Breteche and Blood Runs Cold), and is a founding member of IrishComics.ie. She was awarded ‘Best Artist Published in Ireland’ in the Irish Comic News Awards 2017.

Her illustration work has been highlighted in The Irish Times (‘Motherhood is a Choice’: Artists respond to ‘Repeal the 8th’ 2017, and ‘Drawing Together the Best of Irish Comic Books Creators‘ 2022) and featured in Totally Dublin (Comic Constellations, 2018).