Erin Williams
Erin Williams is a writer and illustrator from New York. She also works full-time as an Oncology Data Specialist for Flatiron Health.
She is the coauthor and illustrator of The Big Fat Activity Book for Pregnant People with Jordan Reid, published by Plume.
Her writing has also appeared on Salon, Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, Scary Mommy, Bustle, Ramshackle Glam, Sammiches and Psych Meds, and Pregnant Chicken.
She lives in Westchester, NY with her husband and daughter.
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Scott MacGregor is an American photographer and writer from Cleveland,Ohio. His photographs and writings have been published in books and magazines. He has been writing graphic tales for several decades in collaboration with Cleveland artists, most notably with artists Gary Dumm and Gregory Budgett.
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Solomon JB Brager is a cartoonist, writer, and teacher living in Lenapehoking, Brooklyn New York. Their first monograph, the graphic nonfiction work Heavyweight, is forthcoming from William Morrow, and they are a 2023-2025 Jerome Hill Artists Fellow. Their comics and research have appeared in The Nib, Jewish Currents, and World War 3 Illustrated, the International Journal of Communication, The Holocaust in History and Memory, Pinko Magazine, Refract Journal, Art Forum, and The New Inquiry, among other publications. They are a founding editor of Pinko Magazine and publisher of the Doykeit zine series.
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Tessa Hulls is an artist/writer/adventurer who is equally likely to disappear into a research library or the wilderness. Her essays have appeared in The Washington Post, Atlas Obscura, and Adventure Journal, and her comics have been published in The Rumpus, City Arts, and The Margins. She has been awarded grants from the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, 4Culture, and the Robert B McMillen Foundation, and received the Washington Artist Trust Arts Innovator Award. For the last almost-decade, she has focused on creating Feeding Ghosts, a graphic memoir that traces three generations of women in her family across a backdrop of Chinese history to explore the complicated ways that mothers and daughters both damage and save one another.
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Ai Weiwei
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Malaka Gharib is a journalist, cartoonist and graphic novelist.
She is the author of "I Was Their American Dream," a graphic memoir published in 2019 about being first-generation Filipino Egyptian American, which won an Arab American Book Award in 2020. Then in 2022, she published "It Won't Always Be Like This," a graphic memoir about her summers in the Middle East.
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Teresa Wong
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Kristen Radtke
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Courtney’s personal essays have been published by outlets such as The Guardian, TIME, The Rumpus, Hobart, Lunch Ticket, and Split Lip Magazine. Her poetry can be found in Wax Nine, Luna Luna Magazine, Maudlin House, and elsewhere online.
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Sacha Mardou
Mardou was born and raised in Manchester, England in 1975. After gaining her BA in English Literature she started making mini-comics, mostly stories about women trying to figure life out. She has made comics for web, print and film and now lives in St Louis, Missouri with her cartoonist-husband, Ted May, and their daughter. She has written and illustrated two volumes of her graphic novel, Sky in Stereo. Her next graphic novel called 'Strange Kind of Love' be published by RevivalHouse Press in late 2021.
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Samuel Teer
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Amy Frykholm
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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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Hey there! I’m Ariella, an NYC-based illustrator and founder of @thecheekyblog: an online platform through which I seek to combat the shame so many of us feel in relation to our bodies. My work has been featured in The New Yorker, Teen Vogue, Alma, and Buzzfeed. My graphic memoir CHEEKY is available where most books are sold.
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