<h4>Born in Montreal in 1959, Obom, aka Diane Obomsawin, spent the first 20 years of her life in France. Trained in graphic design, she returned to Canada in 1983 and turned her attention to painting, comics and animation. Here and There, an autobiographical film about the artist’s rootless childhood, has garnered numerous prestigious distinctions. Her latest book is On Loving Women.</h4>

Diane Obomsawin

On Loving Women

<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

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What Kind of Animal Am I?

<h4><a href="http://austinenglishart.com/">Austin English</a> is a cartoonist and artist living in New York. His books include Christina and Charles, The Disgusting Room, The Life Problem, and more.  He runs the small publishing house <a href="http://dominobooks.org/">Domino Books</a>.</h4>

Austin English

A Mixed Bag of Summer from Jillian and Mariko Tamaki

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
— Dr. Seuss

Young Adult &amp; Children’s Literature

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

Comics

Mimi Pond, Cartoonist Royalty

<h4>Anne Elizabeth Moore is LARB's comics editor, a Fulbright scholar, a UN Press Fellow, the Truthout columnist behind Ladydrawers: Gender and Comics in the US, and the author of several award-winning books. Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in Phnom Penh (Cantankerous Titles, 2011) received a Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award for best book from the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation in 2012. Hey Kidz, Buy This Book (Soft Skull, 2004) made Yes! Magazine‘s list of “Media That Set Us Free” and Reclaim the Media’s 2004 Media and Democracy Summer Reading List. The first Best American Comics made both Entertainment Weekly‘s “Must List” and Publishers Weekly‘s Bestsellers List. Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity (The New Press, 2007) made Reclaim the Media’s 2007 Media and Democracy Summer Reading list and was named a Best Book of the Year by Mother Jones. Moore herself was recently called a “general phenom” by theChicago Reader and “one of the sharpest thinkers and cultural critics bouncing around the globe today” by Razorcake.</h4>
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<h4>Moore has worked with young women in Cambodia on independent media projects, and with people of all ages and genders on media and gender justice work in the US. Her journalism focuses on the international garment trade. Moore exhibits her work frequently as conceptual art, and has been the subject of two documentary films. She has lectured around the world on independent media, globalization, and women’s labor issues. Co-editor and publisher of the now-defunct Punk Planet, and founding editor of the Best American Comics series from Houghton Mifflin, Moore teaches in the Visual Critical Studies and Art History departments at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.</h4>
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<h4>The multi-award-winning author has also written for The Baffler, N+1, Al Jazeera, Good, Snap Judgment, Bitch, the Progressive, The Onion, Feministing, Snap Judgment, The Stranger, In These Times, The Boston Phoenix, and Tin House. She has twice been noted in the Best American Non-Required Reading series. She has appeared on CNN, WNUR, WFMU, WBEZ, Voice of America, GritTV with Laura Flanders, Radio Australia, and NPR’s Worldview, and others. Moore mounted a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 2011 and in 2012 participated in Artisterium, the Republic of Georgia’s annual art invitational. Her work appeared in the 2008 Whitney Biennale, has been exhibited in the Spinnerei in Leipzig Germany in 2010, and made up one of the first conceptual art exhibitions in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in 2010. Her work has been featured in USA Today, Marie Claire, Phnom Penh Post, Portland Mercury, Bust, Entertainment Weekly, Time Out Chicago, Hyphen Magazine, Truthout, Make/Shift, Bookslut, Today’s Chicago Woman, New York Review of Books, Windy City Times, Print Magazine, and the New York Times, among many more. She has lectured at dozens of universities, libraries, and conferences around the globe.</h4>

Anne Elizabeth Moore

How About Love: Gilbert Hernandez’s "Julio’s Day"

<h4>Adam McGovern is a writer and semiotic analyst born in Newark, New Jersey. His cultural criticism appears on HiLoBrow.com and Tor.com, and he has lectured on pop culture as social artifact at the Montclair Museum of Art and Ben Katchor’s NY Comics and Picture-story Symposium. McGovern has written comics appearing in the Eisner-nominated Project: Romantic anthology from AdHouse Books, Image Comics’ Next Issue Project, the Trip City online arts salon and the indie-comic newspapers POOD and Magic Bullet. His poetry has appeared on The Rumpus, and his play Funnybook/Tragicbook was performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn, USA. McGovern’s essays have appeared in prestige compilations of The Spirit and Madman as well as the catalogue for “The Amazing Shoemaker” exhibition at the Salvatore Ferragamo Museum in Florence, Italy.  <a href="http://mcgovernix.wordpress.com/">mcgovernix.wordpress.com</a></h4>

Adam McGovern

The Volcano Lovers: Frank Santoro’s “Pompeii”

<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>

Anna Holmes

A Comics Version of the Life of Margaret Sanger

<h4>David M. Ball is currently at work on a book exploring the intersections of comics and literary and artistic modernism.</h4>

David M. Ball

Paper, Pencil, Life: Ivan Brunetti’s “Aesthetics: A Memoir”

<h4>Matthew Wolf-Meyer is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz. He is the author of The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine and Modern American Life as well as a number of articles about sleep, science, and superheroes.</h4>

Matthew Wolf-Meyer

No Superheroes in Hollywood

<h4>J. Ryan Stradal&rsquo;s writing also appears in Hobart, The Rumpus, The Rattling Wall, Joyland, Midwestern Gothic, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and NFL.com, among other places, archived at&nbsp;<a href="http://jryanstradal.com/" target="_blank">jryanstradal.com</a>. He volunteers for 826LA, helps create products and materials for the Echo Park Time Travel Mart, and often works in TV. He tweets sporadically <a href="https://twitter.com/jryanstradal">@jryanstrada</a>l.</h4>