<h4>Mimi Pond is a cartoonist and a writer who wrote the first episode of The Simpsons. Her work has appeared in the National Lampoon, the Village Voice, The New York Times, Adweek, and  Los Angeles Times. </h4>

Mimi Pond

Over Easy

<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><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

<h4>Tim Hanley is a comic book historian and the author of Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World's Most Famous Heroine. His website, Straitened Circumstances, discusses Wonder Woman and women in comics, and his column "Gendercrunching" runs monthly on Bleeding Cool. He has contributed to several comic book sites, including DC Women Kicking Ass and Women Write About Comics, and has also worked with the Ladydrawers Comics Collective. He lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, between his massive stacks of comic books.</h4>

Tim Hanley

America’s Silver Age 

"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith

Gender &amp; Sexuality

<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>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>Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason magazine and author of the books This is Burning Man: The Rise of a New American Underground and Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement.</h4>