Benji Nate
Caroline “Benji” Sweater, also known as Benji Nate, is an American cartoonist and illustrator living in the Ozarks mountains. She is best known for the comics Catboy (2017), Hell Phone (2022) and Girl Juice (2023).
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Elisa Macellari
Elisa Macellari is a Thai-Italian illustrator. Her clients include The New York Times, Corriere della Sera, Mondadori, Feltrinelli, and Nobrow Press. Her first graphic novel, Papaya Salad (2018), has been published in Italian, French, Spanish and English.
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Joe Kessler
Joe Kessler is a cartoonist based in London. He is the author of Windowpane (2018), winner of the 2020 Angoulême Festival’s Fauve Révélation, and The Gull Yettin (2022).
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Aminder Dhaliwal
Aminder Dhaliwal is a native of Brampton, Ontario and received a Bachelors of Animation from Sheridan College. She now lives in Los Angeles, where she is the Director at Disney TV Animation. Previously, she worked as a Storyboard Director at Cartoon Network and Storyboard Director on the Nickelodeon show Sanjay and Craig.
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She has serialized Woman World biweekly on instagram since March 2017 and has garnered over 120,000 followers. Woman World was nominated for an Ignatz Award for Outstanding Online Comic. -
Walter Scott
Walter Scott is an interdisciplinary artist working with writing, illustration, performance and sculpture. In 2011 while living in Montreal, he began a comic book series, Wendy, exploring the narrative of a fictional young woman living in an urban centre, who aspires to global success and art stardom but whose dreams are perpetually derailed. The position of the outsider and shape shifter is central to this body of work and the influence of feminist icons such as Elle Woods in Legally Blonde or artist, punk poet, experimental novelist and filmmaker Kathy Acker lingers. Recent exhibitions include Fictive Communities, Koganecho Bazaar, Yokohama, Japan 2014, Pre-Existing Work, Macaulay & Co. Fine Art, Vancouver 2015, and Stopping the Sun in It
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Hilnama
ひるなま Hilnama began her career as an erotic manga artist. At 38-years-old she worked on Mikkigan demo Genki desu 38-sai (I'm a Terminal Cancer Patient, but I'm Fine.) after her colon cancer diagnosis. Hilnama died on December 12, 2022 from colon cancer.
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Nicole J. Georges
Nicole J. Georges is an award-winning writer, and illustrator from Portland, Oregon. Nicole has been publishing the autobiographical comic Invincible Summer since 2000, and has toured the country extensively, including two month-long appearances on Michelle Tea’s Sister Spit: Next Generation. Her work has been featured in many publications, including Tin House, Vanity Fair, and Slate.com.
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Her graphic memoir, Calling Dr. Laura, was called “engrossing, lovable, smart and ultimately poignant” by Rachel Maddow, and “disarming and haunting, hip and sweet, all at once” by Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home. In her spare time, Nicole volunteers with senior citizens in North Portland, chronicling their experiences through comics and writing in a zi -
Penelope Skinner
Penelope Skinner is a British playwright who came to prominence after her play Fucked was first produced in 2008 at the Old Red Lion Theatre and the Edinburgh Festival to huge critical acclaim and has had successive plays staged in London including at the Bush Theatre, National Theatre and Royal Court Theatre, where she is a member of the Young Writers Programme.
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Her play Eigengrau staged at the Bush Theatre in 2010 was a critical and box office hit and Skinner was nominated for the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright in 2010. Eigengrau was revived at the Fitzpatrick Hall theatre in Cambridge in March 2012.
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Ben Passmore
Ben lives in Philly. His comics are about crime, monsters, anarchism, sexual dysfunction, police brutality, art theory, and his feels. Author of DAYGLOAYHOLE, Goodbye, and Your Black Friend.
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Casey Nowak
Casey Nowak is an American cartoonist from Ann Arbor, Michigan and a graduate of the University of Michigan’s School of Art and Design.
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Among their works are the collection of short stories Girl Town (2018), the web comic series Lazy and illustration for some volumes of the Eisner Award-winning comic series Lumberjanes. -
Dana Mele
Dana Mele is a Pushcart-nominated writer based in the upper Hudson Valley. A graduate of Wellesley College, Dana holds degrees in theatre, education, and law. Dana’s debut, PEOPLE LIKE US, was published in 2018 and shortlisted for the 2019 ITW Thriller Award for Best Young Adult Novel. A second YA thriller, SUMMER'S EDGE was published by Simon & Schuster in May 2022.
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Steve Thueson
Steve Thueson is a cartoonist from Salt Lake City, Utah, currently based in Philadelphia. Thueson graduated from the Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont in 2017.
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Bree Paulsen
Bree Paulsen is a native of Southern California in love with all things autumnal. After graduating from the Laguna College of Art and Design with a BFA in animation, she freelanced on a few independent animation and illustration projects before turning her focus toward comics. She started her webcomic for adults, Patrik the Vampire, in 2013 and self-publishes its printed volumes. Garlic and the Vampire is her first traditionally published book.
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Colleen Coover
Colleen Coover is an Eisner Award-winning comic book artist based in Portland, Oregon. Her comics include the adult title Small Favors and the all-ages Banana Sunday. She has been published by Dark Horse, Top Shelf, Marvel, and many others. She works with her husband, writer Paul Tobin, on the acclaimed series Bandette.
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Bandette received the Eisner Award for Best Digital Comic in 2013, 2016, and 2017. It was listed by YALSA as a Great Graphic Novel For Teens in 2014 and 2017.
Small Favors, originally printed by the Eros imprint of Fantagraphics Books, has now been reprinted in its entirety by Limerence Press. -
Maria Llovet
Maria Llovet is a comics author and Illustrator from Barcelona.
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As a complete author, she has published numerous graphic novels in Europe and the US, such as Luna, Loud, Heartbeat, Eros/Psyche or Porcelain, among others.
As an artist, she has collaborated with Brian Azzarello in “Faithless” for Boom! Studios and with James Tynion IV in “Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country” and “Thessaly” for DC. -
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Lilli Carré
Lilli Carré is an artist and illustrator currently living in Chicago. She primarily works in the forms of experimental animation, comics, and print. Her animated films have shown in festivals throughout the US and abroad, including the Sundance Film Festival, and she is the co-founder of the Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation. Her books of comics are The Lagoon, Nine Ways to Disappear, Tales of Woodsman Pete, and a new collection of stories, Heads or Tails. Her work has appeared in The Believer Magazine, the New Yorker, The New York Times, Best American Comics and Best American Nonrequired Reading.
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Hitoshi Ashinano
Hitoshi Ashinano (芦奈野 ひとし, Ashitano Hitoshi) is a Japanese manga artist.
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Prior to his professional debut as a solo cartoonist, Ashinano worked as an assistant to manga artist Kousuke Fujishima, while also releasing some doujinshi (amateur manga) under the pen name 'suke'.
Ashinano's comics are known for their contemplative, laid-back, nostalgic feel. His first and best-known series is Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō, a slice-of-life manga set in a post-apocalyptic world. The manga was serialised in Kodansha's comics magazine 'Monthly Afternoon' from 1994 to 2006, won the 2007 'Seiun Award for Best Science Fiction Manga' and was adapted into an anime. -
Rebecca Rukeyser
Rebecca Rukeyser's debut novel, The Seaplane on Final Approach, is coming June 2022 from Doubleday (USA) and Granta Books (UK).
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Her fiction has appeared in Zyzzyva, The Massachusetts Review, was awarded the Berlin Senate Stipend for Non-German Literature, and anthologized in Best American Nonrequired Reading. She received an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
Originally from Davis, California, Rebecca lives in Berlin. -
Katie Skelly
Katie Skelly is an American comic book artist, writer, editor and critic.
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Skelly was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in 1985. She studied Art History at Syracuse University and then at City College of New York.
Among her works: Nurse, Nurse (2012, Sparkplug), a 'Barbarella-inspired' sci-fi comic; Operation Margarine (2014, Adhouse), for which she won the Emerging Artist Prize at the 2015 Cartoon Crossroads Columbus Festival; My Pretty Vampire (2017, Fantagraphics), a 70's exploitation-style horror; The Agency (2018, Fantagraphics), a collection of erotic stories previously appeared online; Maids (2020, Fantagraphics), a true crime graphic novel; the ongoing self-produced series Heaven.
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Ana Galvañ
Ana Galvañ is a comic book writer and illustrator from Murcia, Spain. After studying Art in Valencia, she moved to Madrid, where she works from her own studio for publishers and advertising agencies. One of her strengths is poster and campaign design for events, and her comic book stories have been published by Fantagraphics, Nobrow, Ultrarradio, Vertigo DC, Off Life, Autsáider, Apa-Apa and Fosfatina, among others. She recently published Pulse enter para continuar (Apa, 2018), a compilation of five stories that combines science fiction and fantasy. She was also curator of the cycle of exhibitions at CentroCentro, “The Comic Strip City”, featuring unpublished mural illustrations about Madrid, and coordinated the anthology Teen Wolf.
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Kelsey Wroten
Kelsey Wroten is a Brooklyn based freelance illustrator and comics artist. She earned a BFA in Illustration from The Kansas City Art Institute in 2015. Kelsey has worked with clients including The New York Times, The New Yorker, NPR, Lucky Peach, Vice, Slack, and many others. She has multiple Society of Illustrators awards and has been featured in It's Nice That, Vice, Made in the Middle, Illustration Age, and more. She lives with her partner Allyson, their cat Maggie, and her Buffy the Vampire Slayer Series DVD box set.
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Melissa Capriglione
Melissa Capriglione (cap-rig-lee-own) is a queer comic artist living in Indiana. She graduated in 2017 with a BFA in Drawing and Illustration from Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis. Her debut graphic novel, Basil and Oregano, will be coming out with Dark Horse Comics in June 2022. She is also known for self-publishing a webcomic called "Falconhyrste" with co-author Clara W. since 2015. She specializes in stories featuring women who love women, and other LGBTQ+ representation. She is also the artist for S.P.I.R.I.T(2019), an on-going supernatural comic series, and a slice-of-life drama comic series called PiNKHEARTS(2019). Past clients include Macmillan Publishing, Netflix, Dark Horse, Action Lab, and Arledge Comics. Her work h
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Lucie Bryon
Lucie Bryon is an cartoonist and illustrator. She studied graphic design in Orléans, France and comics at the ESA St Luc Brussels, Belgium.
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She now lives in France and works for children’s publishing, video game companies and various publications as an illustrator and comic artist.
Her work has been published by ShortBox, Milan, BDkids, Kaboom Studios, Cicada Magazine, and France Inter.
She regularly publishes short comics online and self publishes books. -
Caroline Cash
Caroline Cash is an American cartoonist based in Chicago. She specialises in zines, prints and underground comics and she is best known for her autobiographical comic book Pee Pee Poo Poo, winner of the 2024 Eisner Award for best limited series.
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Kay O'Neill
Kay O'Neill is an illustrator and graphic novelist from New Zealand. They are the author of Princess Princess Ever After, The Tea Dragon Society, Aquicorn Cove, and more. They mostly make gentle fantasy stories for younger readers, and are very interested in tea, creatures, things that grow, and the magic of everyday life.
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On an Instagram post 17th December 2020 the author shared that they use they/them pronouns and prefers to be called Kay. -
Kate Leth
Kate Leth is a Canadian author and illustrator working in comics, animation, design, and feelings. A grown-up goth and pop culture devotee, Kate specializes in work for kids and teens. Their comics work includes Patsy Walker, A.K.A. Hellcat!; Girl Over Paris; Spell on Wheels; and Adventure Time, among others.
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They live in Halifax, Nova Scotia with an absolutely ridiculous cat and several regrets. They are queer and genderfluid/non-binary, a fact that greatly influences their work. Kate uses they/them pronouns, but probably won’t correct you. -
Beth Hetland
Beth Hetland is an American cartoonist, illustrator and educator.
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Hetland studied fine arts at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA 2009) and comics at The Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont (MFA 2011). She is now back at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as an adjoint Professor, where she mostly lectures about cartooning and comics writing.
After self-publishing comics for years, her first major graphic novel, the psychological horror Tender, was published in 2024 by Fantagraphics. -
E.M. Carroll
E.M. Carroll was born in June 1983 in London, Ontario. They started making comics in 2010 and their horror comic "His Face All Red" went viral at Hallowe'en 2010.
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Since then, E.M. has published several books, created comics for anthologies, and provided illustrations for other works. E.M. has won several awards, including an Ignatz and two Eisners. They are married to fellow Canadian artist, Kate Craig.
Emily's work now uses the initials E.M. Carroll. Visit their growing exhibits at EMCarroll.com. -
Jillian Tamaki
Jillian Tamaki is a cartoonist and illustrator living in Toronto. A professional artist since 2003, she has worked for publications around the world and taught extensively in New York at the undergraduate and graduate level. She is the co-creator, with her cousin Mariko Tamaki, of Skim and This One Summer, the latter of which won a Caldecott Honor in 2015. She is the author of the graphic novels SuperMutant Magic Academy, originally a serialized webcomic, and Boundless, a collection of short comic stories for adults. Her first picture book, They Say Blue, was released in 2018.
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Bryan Lee O'Malley
Bryan Lee O'Malley is a Canadian cartoonist. His first original graphic novel was Lost at Sea (2003), and he is best-known for the six-volume Scott Pilgrim series (2004 to 2010). All of his Scott Pilgrim graphic novels were published by Portland, Oregon-based Oni Press. In July 2014 his graphic novel Seconds was released by Ballantine Books. He is also a songwriter and musician (as Kupek and formerly in several short-lived Toronto bands).
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Leslie Stein
Leslie Stein is an American cartoonist and rock musician living in Brooklyn, New York. Her diary comics have been featured on Vice and The New Yorker and collected as books by Fantagraphics and Drawn & Quarterly.
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Yasmeen Abedifard
Yasmeen Abedifard is an Iranian-American cartoonist, illustrator and educator. She was born in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1996 and is currently based in Oakland, CA.
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Abedifard received an MFA from Cornell University. She is currently teaching in the Comics program at The California College of the Arts and the UC Berkeley Art Studio.
Among her published comics are When to Pick a Pomegranate (2024, Silver Sprocket) and Death Bloom (2023 Lucky Pocket), winner of the 2023 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Minicomic. Abedifard is also part of a comics collective called D.R.Y. -
Meggie Ramm
Meggie Ramm is a cartoonist and comic teacher with an MFA in comics who runs an education comic podcast called Pop! Whiz! Bang!
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Liz Prince
I have been a comic artist and a self-publisher since I was in high school in the mid-90's. In 2005 my book Will You Still Love Me If I Wet the Bed? was published by Top Shelf Productions; it won an Ignatz Award for Outstanding Debut. Top Shelf has since published two more of my autobio comic collections, Delayed Replays in 2008, and Alone Forever earlier this year. In September my first full length graphic novel, a memoir about adolescence and gender stereotypes called Tomboy, comes out from Zest Books.
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I have had comics published in numerous anthologies, drawn stories for the wildly popular Adventure Time series, and I am a columnist for the punk magazine Razorcake.
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Kelly Zekas
Kelly is the co-author of the THESE VICIOUS MASKS trilogy and the graphic novel CHAMPIONESS with Tarun Shanker.
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Sam Szabo
Sam Szabo is an American cartoonist from Massachusetts, currently based in Chicago. She has self-published a numbers of comics and fanzines.
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Eleonora C. Caruso
Eleonora C. Caruso è nata nel 1986 e si è annoiata finché non è andato in onda Sailor Moon. Nel 2001 ha cominciato a scrivere in rete fanfiction sui suoi anime preferiti, conquistando in breve tempo migliaia di lettori. Ha fatto l’operaia, la commessa, l’impiegata, la centralinista di call centre. Vive a Milano con il suo compagno e la sua collezione di manga.
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Christian Slade
As a boy growing up in New Jersey, Christian Slade carried his sketchbook everywhere he went. It was said that he sometimes lived in another world, and it was this other world within the pages of his sketchbook that inspired him to draw from his imagination and the world around him. After thirty years, not much has changed. A former Disney animator and currently a full-time freelance illustrator, Christian has embarked upon his very first all-ages graphic novel series, Korgi. Christian currently lives in Orlando with his wife, Ann, and their two Welsh corgis, Penny and Leo.
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--from the cover flap of Korgi: Book 1
Christian Slade has a B.F.A. from the University of Central Florida, an M.A. from Syracuse University, a health collection of comic -
Florence Rivieres
Writer of books and game writer. Feminist, spectrum collector. Often found brewing tea or hitchhiking.
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Matt Furie
Matt Furie is from Columbus, Ohio. He is the subject of the documentary Feels Good Man, which is about how his gentle character, Pepe the Frog, was co-opted. Winner of the best Visual Artist in the San Francisco Bay Guardian’s 20th annual Goldie awards, he’s exhibited in the U.S. and Europe. Furie is also an accomplished illustrator; in addition to his comic book series Boy’s Club, he’s published a children’s book, The Night Riders. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter.
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Alex Wrekk
Alex Wrekk (born June 19, 1977) is the pen-name for a Portland, Oregon, DIY, feminist, zinester and author. The self-published writer is most commonly known for her book, Stolen Sharpie Revolution, and her ongoing zine, Brainscan.
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Alex Wrekk’s life revolves around making things; primarily zines, custom pinback buttons (badges), vegan food, travel plans, and space for a cat in her bed. Alex Wrekk has lived in Portland, Oregon since 1999 and has been creating the zine Brainscan since 1997. Alex Wrekk is actively involved in zine culture by updating the zine event listings on StolenSharpieRevolution.org, organizing the Portland Zine Symposium, established July as International Zine Month, hosts the podcast Nobody Cares About Your Stupid Zine Po -
Wendy Wimmer
My debut short story collection ENTRY LEVEL: STORIES received the 2021 Autumn House Fiction Prize, positive reviews including one from Publisher's Weekly, and a starred Kirkus review. The Washington Post called it one of the short story collections worth reading for fall 2022, and People Magazine called it "gleefully subversive" in its Best New Books feature. The collection sold out on the first day of release and is currently in its third printing less than a year into release. A selection from the book was chosen for Electric Literature's short story features by Kristen Arnett and it was the most read piece on EL in 2022. The book was also recently named to Kirkus Reviews Best Indie Short Fiction for 2022 as well as an honoree for the Soc
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Hartley Lin
Hartley Lin (formerly known by the pseudonym Ethan Rilly) is a cartoonist based in Montreal, Canada. Young Frances, the first collection from his ongoing comic book Pope Hats, won the 2019 Doug Wright Award for Best Book. He has drawn for The New Yorker, The Hollywood Reporter, Slate, Taddle Creek and HarperCollins.
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