<h4>Dane Martin draws comic books in the rural Midwest. His books include Chancellor Cop, Debbie, Big Dogs At Nite, Unfortunate Horse Magazine, and Forget Boring Truths, among others. He also draws the internet comic strip “Horror of the Gag.”</h4>

Dane Martin

Debbie

<h4>Leslie Weibeler is a Chicago-based artist. Her shorter pieces can be seen in Sock Magazine, Happiness Comix, Sonatina, Sub-Rosa, and Lumpen Magazine. Her first standalone book is Bow vs Bow. Follow her work <a title="Leslie Weibeler" href="continno-exercise.tumblr.com" target="_blank">online</a>.</h4>

Leslie Weibeler

Bow vs Bow

<h4>Sara Lautman is a cartoonist from New Jersey. Her cartoons and illustrated essays have appeared in Bitch Magazine, The Hairpin, The Rumpus, Baltimore City Paper, and elsewhere. MACROGROAN, her zine series, is available in independent bookstores across the continental US. MACROGROAN is also a <a title="MACROGROAN" href="http://saralautman.com/" target="_blank">blog</a>.</h4>

Sara Lautman

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<a title="Sara Lautman" href="https://v2.lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/sara-lautman/">Sara Lautman’s zine series MACROGROAN is available in independent bookstores across the continental US.</a>

Approaches to Comics

<h4>Kevin Thomas was born in Southern California and grew up in the Pacific Northwest. His work has been anthologized in Bring the Noise: The Best Pop Culture Essays from Barrelhouse Magazine, and his comic strip Horn! Reviews runs regularly on The Rumpus. <a href="http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/horn-collected-reviews/" target="_blank">His first book</a>, a collection of the first three years of these strips, is available from OR Books. Sometimes he <a href="http://twitter.com/kevinsemicolon">overshares on Twitter</a>. </h4>

Kevin Thomas

Horn! Reviews "Redeployment"

"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954

Comics

<h4>MariNaomi is the author and illustrator of the award-winning graphic memoir <a href="http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Kiss--Tell-MariNaomi?isbn=9780062009234&amp;HCHP=TB_Kiss+&amp;+Tell" target="_blank">Kiss &amp; Tell: A Romantic Resume, Ages 0 to 22</a> (Harper Perennial, 2011), the upcoming books Dragon's Breath and Other True Stories and Turning Japanese (2D Cloud), and her self-published zine, Estrus Comics (1998 to 2009). Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies, including I Saw You: Comics Inspired by Real Life Missed Connections, Cheers to Muses: Contemporary Works by Asian American Women, No Straight Lines, Anything That Loves, QU33R, and Action Girl Comics. Her comics and essays have been featured on The Rumpus, The Weeklings, Truth-out, SFBay.CA, The Comics Journal, The Bay Citizen, XOJane, and more.</h4>

MariNaomi

Mimi Pond, Cartoonist Royalty

<h4>Colleen Frakes is a Xeric and Ignatz award winning cartoonist. She lives in Seattle and works in a library.</h4>

Colleen Frakes

Liz Prince Nails It: A Graphic Review of "Alone Forever"

What Kind of Animal Am I?

<h4>Anna Holmes is a writer and editor living in New York and the founder of the women's website, Jezebel.com. Her second book, The Book of Jezebel, published on October 22, 2013</h4>