Nora Krug
Nora Krug is a German-American author, illustrator and associate professor in the Illustration Program at the Parsons School of Design in New York City. Her drawings and visual narratives have appeared in publications including The New York Times, the Guardian and le Monde Diplomatique, and in a number of anthologies. A recipient of numerous prestigious fellowships, her books are included in the Library of Congress and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University. Her illustrations have been recognized with three gold medals from the Society of Illustrators and a Silver Cube from the New York Art Directors Club. Krug's work has been exhibited internationally, and her animations shown at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Lauren Redniss is the author of Century Girl: 100 years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies and Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout, a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award for non fiction. Her writing and drawing has appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times, which nominated her work for the Pulitzer Prize. She was a fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars & Writers at the New York Public Library in 2008-2009, became a New York Institute for the Humanities fellow in 2010, and is currently Artist-in-Residence at the American Museum of Natural History. She teaches at Parsons the New School for Design in New York City.
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Günter Grass
Novels, notably The Tin Drum (1959) and Dog Years (1963), of German writer Günter Wilhelm Grass, who won the Nobel Prize of 1999 for literature, concern the political and social climate of Germany during and after World War II.
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This novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, and sculptor since 1945 lived in West Germany but in his fiction frequently returned to the Danzig of his childhood. He always identified as a Kashubian.
He is best known for his first novel, The Tin Drum (1959), a key text in European magic realism. He named this style “broadened reality.” “Cat and Mouse” (1961) and Dog Years (1963) also succeeded in the period. These three novels make up his “Danzig trilogy.”
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Judith Vanistendael
Judith Vanistendael studeerde na de middelbare school een jaar in Berlijn aan de Hochschule der Künste. Vervolgens volgde ze Kunstwetenschappen aan de Universiteit van Gent en deed ze de opleiding Beeldverhaal aan de Hogeschool Sint Lukas. Ze illustreerde onder andere voor Querido en Malmberg en publiceerde korte verhalen in de striptijdschriften Ink, Demo en Zone 5300.
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Anneli Furmark
Anneli Furmark är en av de främsta serieberättarna i Sverige idag. På ett oemotståndligt sätt beskriver hon människor från helt skilda positioner; grabbar och tjejer, hetero eller homo. Hon är något så ovanligt som en mästare i både ord och bild. Det är som om hon skildrar hur själva det norrländska landskapet tänker och känner. Här har vi samlat elva av hennes starkaste serienoveller. De handlar om längtan att få älska någon, om att vara på väg att bli vuxen, om att pröva sina vingar och om att längta bort.
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Anneli Furmark har ritat serier i snart tjugo år. Hon har givit ut två böcker tidigare och erhållit seriefrämjandets pris Urhunden för bästa svenska seriealbum 2005. Två gånger har hon prisbelönats vid den nordiska seriefestivalen i Kem -
Darrin Bell
Darrin Bell is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American editorial cartoonist and comic strip creator known for the syndicated comic strips Candorville and Rudy Park. He is a syndicated editorial cartoonist with King Features Syndicate. (His editorial cartoons were formerly syndicated by The Washington Post Writers Group.)
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Bell is the first African-American to have two comic strips syndicated nationally. He is also a storyboard artist. Bell engages in issues such as civil rights, pop culture, family, science fiction, scriptural wisdom, and nihilist philosophy, while often casting his characters in roles that are traditionally denied them. -
Marjane Satrapi
Marjane Satrapi (Persian: مرجان ساتراپی) is an Iranian-born French contemporary graphic novellist, illustrator, animated film director, and children's book author. Apart from her native tongue Persian, she speaks English, Swedish, German, French and Italian.
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Satrapi grew up in Tehran in a family which was involved with communist and socialist movements in Iran prior to the Iranian Revolution. She attended the Lycée Français there and witnessed, as a child, the growing suppression of civil liberties and the everyday-life consequences of Iranian politics, including the fall of the Shah, the early regime of Ruhollah Khomeini, and the first years of the Iran-Iraq War. She experienced an Iraqi air raid and Scud missile attacks on Tehran. Accordin -
Eoin Colfer
Eoin Colfer (pronounced Owen) was born in Wexford on the South-East coast of Ireland in 1965, where he and his four brothers were brought up by his father and mother, who were both educators.
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He received his degree from Dublin University and began teaching primary school in Wexford. He has lived and worked all over the world, including Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Italy. After the publication of the Artemis Fowl novels, Eoin retired from teaching and now writes full time. He lives in Ireland with his wife and two children. -
Joe Sacco
Joe Sacco was born in Malta on October 2, 1960. At the age of one, he moved with his family to Australia, where he spent his childhood until 1972, when they moved to Los Angeles. He began his journalism career working on the Sunset High School newspaper in Beaverton, Oregon. While journalism was his primary focus, this was also the period of time in which he developed his penchant for humor and satire. He graduated from Sunset High in 1978.
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Sacco earned his B.A. in journalism from the University of Oregon in 1981 in three years. He was greatly frustrated with the journalist work that he found at the time, later saying, "[I couldn't find] a job writing very hard-hitting, interesting pieces that would really make some sort of difference." Afte -
Guy Delisle
Born in Quebec, Canada, Guy Delisle studied animation at Sheridan College. Delisle has worked for numerous animation studios around the world, including CinéGroupe in Montreal.
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Drawing from his experience at animation studios in China and North Korea, Delisle's graphic novels Shenzen and Pyongyang depict these two countries from a Westerner's perspective. A third graphic novel, Chroniques Birmanes, recounts his time spent in Myanmar with his wife, a Médecins Sans Frontières administrator. -
Lauren Redniss
Lauren Redniss is the author of Century Girl: 100 years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies and Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout, a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award for non fiction. Her writing and drawing has appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times, which nominated her work for the Pulitzer Prize. She was a fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars & Writers at the New York Public Library in 2008-2009, became a New York Institute for the Humanities fellow in 2010, and is currently Artist-in-Residence at the American Museum of Natural History. She teaches at Parsons the New School for Design in New York City.
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Eric H. Cline
DR. ERIC H. CLINE is the former Chair of the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and current Director of the Capitol Archaeological Institute at The George Washington University. A National Geographic Explorer, NEH Public Scholar, and Fulbright scholar with degrees from Dartmouth, Yale, and the University of Pennsylvania, he is an active field archaeologist with 30 seasons of excavation and survey experience in Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Cyprus, Greece, Crete, and the United States, including ten seasons at the site of Megiddo (biblical Armageddon) in Israel from 1994-2014, and seven seasons at Tel Kabri, where he currently serves as Co-Director. A three-time winner of the Biblical Archaeology Society's "Best Po
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Jordan Crane
Jordan Crane is a cartoonist living in Los Angeles, CA with his wife and kids. Crane first emerged in 1996 with the iconic comics anthology NON, which he edited, designed, printed, contributed to, and published.
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Timothy Snyder
Timothy Snyder is Housum Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1997, where he was a British Marshall Scholar. He has held fellowships in Paris, Vienna, and Warsaw, and an Academy Scholarship at Harvard.
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His most recent book is Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning, published in September 2015 by Crown Books. He is author also of Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010), a history of Nazi and Soviet mass killing on the lands between Berlin and Moscow. A New York Times bestseller and a book of the year according to The Atlantic, The Independent, The Financial Times, the Telegraph, and the New Statesma -
Bessora
Bessora is an award-winning author of Swiss, German, French, Polish, and Gabonese heritage, whose work has been anthologized in Best European Fiction and has received the Fénéon Prize and Grand Prix Littéraire d’Afrique Noire. Raised in Europe, America, and Africa, she has traveled extensively and her fiction is underpinned by extensive research and her training as an anthropologist. Alpha is her first graphic novel. She lives in Paris.
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Igort
Igort is an Italian illustrator, comic book artist, writer, publisher, film director and musician. He is considered a key figure in the development of European graphic novels.
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Igor Tuveri was born in 1958 in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. At age 20 Tuveri moved to Bologne and started publishing comics with the pen name Igort. His early works appeared in 'Linus', a famous Italian comic magazine aimed at an adult readership, of which Igort himself will become editor-in-chief in the 2000's.
In the 80's Igort founded the independent magazines 'Il Pinguino' and 'Dolce Vita' with fellow cartoonists from the so-called 'Valvoline' collective. The collective included artists Daniele Brolli, Roberto Baldazzini, Lorenzo Mattotti, Giorgio Carpinteri, as wel -
Lucy Knisley
Beginning with an love for Archie comics and Calvin and Hobbes, Lucy Knisley (pronounced "nigh-zlee") has always thought of cartooning as the only profession she is suited for. A New York City kid raised by a family of foodies, Lucy is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago currently pursuing an MFA at the Center for Cartoon Studies. While completing her BFA at the School of the Art Institute, she was comics editor for the award-winning student publication F News Magazine.
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Lucy currently resides in New York City where she makes comics. She likes books, sewing, bicycles, food you can eat with a spoon, manatees, nice pens, costumes, baking and Oscar Wilde. She occasionally has been known to wear amazing hats.
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Judith Vanistendael
Judith Vanistendael studeerde na de middelbare school een jaar in Berlijn aan de Hochschule der Künste. Vervolgens volgde ze Kunstwetenschappen aan de Universiteit van Gent en deed ze de opleiding Beeldverhaal aan de Hogeschool Sint Lukas. Ze illustreerde onder andere voor Querido en Malmberg en publiceerde korte verhalen in de striptijdschriften Ink, Demo en Zone 5300.
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Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim was born in the town of Goheung in Jeolla Province, a town famous for its beautiful mountains and sea. Her graphic novels include The Song of My Father, Jiseul, and Kogaeyi, which have been translated and published in France. She also wrote and illustrated The Baby Hanyeo Okrang Goes to Dokdo, A Day with My Grandpa, and My Mother Kang Geumsun. She received the Best Creative Manhwa Award for her short manhwa “Sister Mija,” about a comfort woman. She has had exhibitions of her works in Korea and Europe since 2012, and her graphic novels and manhwa deal mostly with people who are outcasts or marginalized.
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Thien Pham
THIEN PHAM is a comic book and visual artist, based in the Bay Area. He is also a high school teacher. Pham illustrated Gene Luen Yang's Level Up. Sumo is his first solo work.
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Séverine Vidal
Séverine Vidal est née en 1969. Après des études de Lettres, elle se souvient que, petite, elle adorait jouer à la maîtresse dans son garage avec des élèves découpés dans du carton. Elle devient donc professeur des écoles, pour de vrai cette fois. Elle écrit des tas d'histoires pour enfants qu'elle commence à envoyer aux éditeurs en 2009. Depuis, les réponses positives s'enchaînent : albums, BD, romans jeunesse (4 parutions en 2010, une vingtaine de titres prévus en 2011/2012). Elle adore cette nouvelle vie, pleine de rencontres, de rires et de liberté ! Elle se consacrera à l'écriture à temps plein, dès la rentrée 2011.
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Josh Tuininga
Josh Tuininga is an author, artist, and graphic designer based in North Bend, WA. A graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Tuininga's artistic career has explored a variety of mediums including sequential art, animation, painting and design. In 2003, he founded an Art + Design Agency, The Medium where he continues to work as Creative Director.
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Matt Kracht
Writer and artist, Matt Kracht is the author of OMFG, BEES!: Bees Are So Amazing and You're About to Find Out Why (Chronicle Books, March 2023), and the bestselling books, The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America (Chronicle Books, 2019), and The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of the Whole Stupid World (Chronicle Books, 2021).
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Both books in the Field Guide to Dumb Birds series were Goodreads Choice Awards finalists in the Humor category.
Kracht lives with his wife in Tacoma, Washington, where they enjoy gazing at the beautiful waters of the Puget Sound and making fun of birds. -
K. Woodman-Maynard
K. Woodman-Maynard is an author, illustrator, and comics coach who explores acceptance and self-expression through her watercolor comics.
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Her next graphic novel is an adaptation of the beloved classic Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. It received starred reviews from both Kirkus, who called it “as wise and wonderful as the original,” and School Library Journal, who described it as “a must for any graphic novel collection.”
Her debut, an adaptation of THE GREAT GATSBY, was called "hugely rewarding" by the The Wall Street Journal and was featured in the The New York Times, The Guardian, and Times Literary Supplement.
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Navied Mahdavian
Navied Mahdavian is a cartoonist and writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker since 2018. He is the author and illustrator of the graphic memoir This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America, an NPR and New Yorker book of the year.
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Frank Abe
FRANK ABE is lead author of a graphic novel, WE HEREBY REFUSE: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration (Chin Music Press, 2021), named a Finalist in Creative Nonfiction for the Washington State Book Award. He won an American Book Award as co-editor of JOHN OKADA: The Life & Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy (University of Washington Press, 2018), in which he authored the first-ever biography of Okada and traced the origins of his novel. He is co-editor of a new anthology, The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration, from Penguin Classics.
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Amy Kurzweil
Amy Kurzweil’s debut graphic memoir, Flying Couch will be published in October 2016. Her comics appear in The New Yorker and other publications. Her series GutterFACE is hosted by the literary webcast drDOCTOR and her short stories have appeared in The Toast, Washington Square Review, Hobart, Shenandoah, and elsewhere. She teaches writing and comics at Parsons School of Design and at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Amy lives in Brooklyn.
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Salva Rubio
Salva Rubio is a novelist and screenwriter and something else.
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He works as a cinema screenwriter, having been nominated to the Spanish Goya Awards for Best Animation Feature.
As a graphic novel writer, he publishes mainly in the French-Belgian market and his work has been nominated to an Eisner Award.
He has also written classic musical essays and is the continuator of the bestseller screenwriting theory book series “Save the Cat!”
He is an associate member of the WGA (Writer’s Guild of America, West) and he is a member of the Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España. -
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Matt Kracht
Writer and artist, Matt Kracht is the author of OMFG, BEES!: Bees Are So Amazing and You're About to Find Out Why (Chronicle Books, March 2023), and the bestselling books, The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America (Chronicle Books, 2019), and The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of the Whole Stupid World (Chronicle Books, 2021).
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Both books in the Field Guide to Dumb Birds series were Goodreads Choice Awards finalists in the Humor category.
Kracht lives with his wife in Tacoma, Washington, where they enjoy gazing at the beautiful waters of the Puget Sound and making fun of birds. -
Sarah Glidden
Sarah Glidden was born in 1980 in Massachusetts and earned a BFA in painting at Boston University. Her first graphic novel, How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less, was published by Vertigo Comics in 2010 and was featured in the Best American Comics series. It is now published by Drawn and Quarterly, as is her second book, Rolling Blackouts, which will be released in October, 2016. Glidden has created comics for The Guardian, Ha'aretz, and the Nib. She currently lives in Seattle.
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Sara Ryan
I write books and comics for teens and others. Reviews and star ratings make me anxious, but I'm reporting what I read here.
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Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom
Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom is an illustrator, a cartoonist, and a graphic designer living in Auckland, New Zealand, with her partner and two children. She has a master’s degree in literature from Södertörn University and has studied at the Comic Art School in Malmö. Palimpsest is her first graphic novel. She is an adoptee rights activist.
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Bill Hayes
The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction, Bill Hayes is a frequent contributor to the New York Times and the author of several books.
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A photographer as well as a writer, his photos have appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Granta, New York Times, and on CBS Evening News. His portraits of his partner, the late Oliver Sacks, appear in the recent collection of Dr. Sacks’s suite of final essays Gratitude.
Hayes has been a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome, the recipient of a Leon Levy Foundation grant, and a Resident Writer at Blue Mountain Center. He has also served as a guest lecturer at Stanford, NYU, UCSF, University of Virginia, and the New York Academy of Medicine. -
Emily Carrington
Emily Carrington is a Canadian cartoonist who grew up on the Maritime Provinces, and now lives in British Columbia. A childhood love of comics returned (much to her own surprise) in her early fifties, and now she can't seem to stop drawing them! Her first book is Our Little Secret, and she now working on a second book. Emily has painted and sold watercolor paintings and was longlisted for a CBC poetry prize.
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Joanne Anton
Joanne Anton a fait des études d’art dramatique au Conservatoire de Liège (Belgique). Depuis 1994 elle habite Paris (France), où elle obtient un diplôme de langue et littérature russes.
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Joanne Anton studied drama at the Conservatoire of Liège (Belgium). Since 1994 she lives in Paris (France), where she obtained a degree in Russian language and literature. -
Ephameron
Ephameron is de nom de pinceau van huisillustrator Eva Cardon, Doctor in de Kunsten en zowel in binnen- als buitenland een graag geziene grafische gast. Ze is curator van het festival Grafixx, de jaarlijkse viering van beeldverhaal en illustratie.
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Haar werk doet verslag van een gevoelige kant van de wereld, documenteert de intieme en onopvallende drama’s die samen een leven vormen. Ephameron publiceert illustraties in o.a. The New York Times, De Standaard, De Tijd, L’Echo en Knack Weekend. Ze neemt deel aan en cureert tentoonstellingen over de hele wereld.
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Lewis Helfand
The creator and writer of Wasted Minute and 4320, Lewis Helfand is a freelance writer whose comic book credits include the graphic novels Kim, A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth, and The Time Machine for Campfire Comics and the monthly mini-comic The Adventures of Roxy Riley for East Coast Biker Magazine.
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His past credits include weekly columns for AskMen.com and InsideHoops.com, as well as monthly features for Exposed Magazine and Rockstar Magazine. Other recent clips include articles for American Health & Fitness, Renaissance Magazine, Computer Bits Magazine, Vicious Magazine, The Funny Papers of Philadelphia, ClubPlanet.com, Food-Writing.com, and Modvox.com. -
Mike Unwin
Mike Unwin is a celebrated wildlife and travel writer known for his books and journalism, and also a photographer, illustrator, and popular speaker.
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Laura Kipnis
Laura Kipnis is the author of Against Love: A Polemic; How to Become A Scandal; The Female Thing; Bound and Gagged; and the upcoming Men: Notes from an Ongoing Observation (out in November). Her books have been translated into fifteen languages. She's written essays and criticism for Slate, Harper’s, Playboy, New York Times Magazine, New York Times Book Review, and Bookforum. A former filmmaker, she teaches filmmaking at Northwestern University. She lives in Chicago and New York.
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Glenn Head
Glenn Head is an American cartoonist and comic book editor, based in New York City.
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Head was born in 1958 in Morristown, New Jersey and began drawing comics when fourteen. A student of Art Spiegelman at the School of Visual Arts in the early ‘80s, Head's style was significantly influenced by the underground comix of the 60's.
Much of his work has appeared in anthologies. In the early 90's Head co-created with cartoonist Kaz the comix anthology series Snake Eyes, for Fantagraphics Books. From 2005 to 2010 he edited and contributed to another anthology by Fantagraphics, called Hotwire Comix.
In recent years Glenn Head has moved towards longer form comics, releasing the graphic novels Chicago (2015) and Chartwell Manor (2021).
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Daria Bogdańska
Daria Bogdanska är serietecknare född 1988 i Warszawa och bosatt i Malmö. Bogdanska flyttade till Sverige i 2013 och har gått på Kvarnby Serieskola. Hon spelar även i punkbandet Två Krig, jobbar som cykelmekaniker och som facklig organisatör.
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