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Originally from Minneapolis, Carissa Potter lives and works in Oakland, California. Her prints and small-scale objects reflect her hopeless romanticism through their investigations into public and private intimacy. Speaking both humorously and poignantly to the human condition, Carissa's work touches chords we all can relate to - exploring situations we've all experienced at some point in our lives and conveying messages we simply long to hear. Carissa Potter is a founding member of Colpa Press and founder of People I've Loved. Since 2010, she has been an artist in residence at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, where she teaches letterpress. She also serves as a mentor in Southern Exposure's One-on-One Mentorship Program. Carissa received he

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Loryn Brantz

Loryn Brantz is an author, artist, poet, and director. She is the creator of two best-selling board book series, Feminist Baby and It Had To Be You (Love Poems Your Baby Can See), and is also a two-time Emmy Award winner for her work on Sesame Street. She is currently a consulting creative director for the beloved children’s education program, Ms. Rachel. Her debut poetry collection, Poems of Parenting, will be available Spring, 2025.

Her greatest desire is to make the world a better place through art, even if just a little — but hopefully, a lot. Loryn lives in New York City with her husband, architect Jake J. Brotter, and children, Dalia and Ronen.

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Grant Snider

Grant Snider began drawing and writing before he knew what he was doing. Soon it was too late to stop.

He is the author of the picture books WHAT COLOR IS NIGHT? and WHAT SOUND IS MORNING? and the creator of Incidental Comics. His comics were collected and published in the books THE SHAPE OF IDEAS and I WILL JUDGE YOU BY YOUR BOOKSHELF. Grant's comics about creativity and the human condition have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Best American Comics.

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Avery Monsen

Avery Monsen is a writer, actor, and artist who lives in Los Angeles. He illustrated and co-authored the national bestseller, All My Friends Are Dead, as well as I Feel Relatively Neutral About New York and K is For Knifeball. He’s also written for the television shows, Billy On The Street and Trip Tank. His writing and drawings have been published in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Believer, and several newspapers around the country, and he was recently named one of the New Faces of Comedy at the 2017 Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal. As an actor, he’s appeared on 30 Rock, The Tonight Show, High Maintenance, Maron, Adam Ruins Everything, and Alexa & Katie.

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Loryn Brantz

Loryn Brantz is an author, artist, poet, and director. She is the creator of two best-selling board book series, Feminist Baby and It Had To Be You (Love Poems Your Baby Can See), and is also a two-time Emmy Award winner for her work on Sesame Street. She is currently a consulting creative director for the beloved children’s education program, Ms. Rachel. Her debut poetry collection, Poems of Parenting, will be available Spring, 2025.

Her greatest desire is to make the world a better place through art, even if just a little — but hopefully, a lot. Loryn lives in New York City with her husband, architect Jake J. Brotter, and children, Dalia and Ronen.

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Originally from Minneapolis, Carissa Potter lives and works in Oakland, California. Her prints and small-scale objects reflect her hopeless romanticism through their investigations into public and private intimacy. Speaking both humorously and poignantly to the human condition, Carissa's work touches chords we all can relate to - exploring situations we've all experienced at some point in our lives and conveying messages we simply long to hear. Carissa Potter is a founding member of Colpa Press and founder of People I've Loved. Since 2010, she has been an artist in residence at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, where she teaches letterpress. She also serves as a mentor in Southern Exposure's One-on-One Mentorship Program. Carissa received he

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Liz Climo

Liz Climo grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and moved to Los Angeles after college to work as a character artist on The Simpsons. She started a comic blog, LizClimo.tumblr.com, where Rory and his dad first appeared in 2012. Liz currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Colin, and their daughter, Marlow.

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Yumi Sakugawa

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Tillie Walden

Tillie Walden is an American cartoonist and illustrator.
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Sarah Andersen

Hello! I’m Sarah and I’m a cartoonist and illustrator. I graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2014. My comics are semi-autobiographical and follow the adventures of myself, my friends, and my beloved pets.

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Cassandra Calin

Cassandra Calin is a Romanian-born Canadian artist. Based in Montreal, she's a comic artist, illustrator, and a graphic designer. “I draw comics inspired by my life and experiences,” Calin writes on her website. “I enjoy laughing at my awkward self and ranting about silly misfortunes such as being born with curly hair.

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Debbie Tung

Deborah "Debbie" Tung is a comic artist and illustrator from Birmingham, England. Her work is based on simple (and sometimes awkward) everyday life moments and her love for books and tea. She lives with her husband and son.

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Catana Chetwynd

Catana Chetwynd is the creator of a digital comic strip about a short girl and a bearded boyfriend doing the things they do.

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Huda Fahmy

Huda Fahmy was born in Detroit, Michigan and attended the University of Michigan where she majored in English. She taught English to middle and high school students for eight years before she started writing about her experiences as a visibly Muslim woman in America and was encouraged by her older sister to turn these stories into comics. Huda, her husband Gehad, and their two boys reside in Houston, Texas.

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Gwen Tarpley

Gwen Tarpley is a graphic artist and the creator of the popular webcomic Cat's Cafe. The series has been celebrated for its sensitive exploration of mental-health issues. Gwen uses Cat's Cafe to translate complex emotions into small cups of joy.

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Jacqueline Chen

Jacqueline Chen has been drawing motivational comics and animations since high school and has cheered up millions of people along the way. When she's not making art, she's designing and coding. She loves bubble tea and ice cream a little too much.

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Yee-Lum Mak

Yee-Lum Mak was born and raised in Los Angeles and graduated from USC in 2016 with a major in creative writing and a minor in marketing.

In 2011, she started my blog Other-Wordly. Other-Wordly, my book based on the blog, launched in October 2016 from Chronicle Books and was a New York Times bestseller in the Education category in January 2017.

Her future goals include a career teaching college composition, having a very calm dog, and, at least once, sitting courtside at a Clippers game.

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Debbie Tung

Deborah "Debbie" Tung is a comic artist and illustrator from Birmingham, England. Her work is based on simple (and sometimes awkward) everyday life moments and her love for books and tea. She lives with her husband and son.

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Yumi Sakugawa

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Dante Fabiero

Dante Fabiero is an animator and author who spent his childhood living in Denver, Singapore, and Los Angeles.

After graduating from the University of Southern California, Fabiero landed his first job as an animator on "The Simpsons." Since then he has taken on multiple roles within the industry creating animation for TBS, Netflix, Fox, and YouTube.

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