Lucy Anaya is an aspiring journalist, currently working toward her Masters’ Degree in New Arts
Journalism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Sarah Bell is an artoonist, living in Rogers Park/Edgewater. As a self­taught artist, she has
cultivated invaluable knowledge from a diversity of sources and people. The most liberating
experience, in her mind, has been letting go of preconceptions of who is an "artist" and allowing
the freedom to simply express her thoughts and observations through simple, ordinary methods.
Named for the storm that thwarted their entrance into the world, Blizzard Babies are Taylor
Kelley on guitar and vocals, Meghann Fae Mossell on bass and vocals, Pamela Joy
Buschbacher on electric ukelele and vocals, and Liz Albertson on drums. Inspired by girl groups
and riot grrrl in equal measure, and loosely resembling the Frumpies, Blizzard Babies make
songs about youthful exuberance, ancient Rome, street harassment, and their cashier jobs.
Nicole Boyett is a comics and fiber artist prone to screen printing, research and crazed
collaboration. She is currently based in the Pacific Northwest and holds a degree from the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Jacinta Bunnell is an artist, activist, educator and coloring book maker. JB has toured the U.S.
and Canada with The Sparkle Kids Action Network, The Gadabout Film Fest, Neko Case, Dave
End, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Julie Novak, and Michael Truckpile. JB is the author of three coloring
books: Sometimes the Spoon Runs Away With Another Spoon, Girls Will Be Boys Will Be Girls
Will Be...and Girls Are Not Chicks. JB is a co­founder of Hudson Valley B.R.A.W.L. (Broads’
Regional Arm Wrestling League), a fancily­clad arm wrestling league for ladies.
Writer and creator Maria Burnham is a bisexual author currently living with her two Boston
Terriers in Brooklyn, NY. She is also a hairstylist, a chef, a photographer, a traveler, a reader, a
self­proclaimed “hostess with the most­est”, a bike rider, a nerd, a sister, and a friend. If you
ever meet her in real life, she loves it when you say she is cuter than her comic persona (and for
goodness' sake, DON'T ask her why her eyes are always squinting or closed­that's just how she
smiles).
Ali Cantarella is a comics illustrator and ballpoint pen enthusiast living in the Logan Square
neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. When she's not working on artwork, Ali enjoys creating food as
colorful as it is tasty, biking around her beautiful city, and leaving half­drank cups of tea on
various surfaces around her apartment. She has a totally cutesy full length graphic novel, "The
Hasty Pastry" debuting in print this fall, and can be found on the web at www.TheWetStain.com!
Robyn Chapman is the proprietor of Paper Rocket Minicomics. She is also a cartoonist and an
educator. Her cartooning workshops have brought her to classrooms at the School of Visual
Arts, the New School, Wellesley College, and the University of Iowa. She spent five years at The
Center for Cartoon Studies, initially as their first fellow and later as their program coordinator and
a faculty member. During her time at CCS she earned her MFA, having previously earned her
BFA at the Savannah College of Art and Design. She is currently an assistant editor at Graphic
Universe, the graphic novel imprint of Lerner Publishing Group. She recently wrote a book called
Drawing Comics Lab.
Danielle Chenette is an artist who lives and works in Chicago, IL. Heavily influenced by Tao
philosophy and Cosmology, Chenette’s work confronts the concepts of mortality, isolation, and
humanity’s relationship to nature through simplistic comics and animations. She works primarily
with pencil, brush, and ink.
Faith Choi was born in New Jersey in 1991 and is currently working towards a Bachelors of
Fine Arts degree in Chicago.
Delivered from the hot arid Arizona desert, Morgan Claire (who more prominently responds to
her pseudonym Carmilla Dirt) now lives and works in Chicago, Illinois as an artist, curator, sex
worker, writer and stylist. Morgan has dedicated her life to exposing, exploring and enveloping
herself in the absurd, the obscure and most especially in transgressive eroticism. In 2011 she
graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a BA in Visual and Critical Studies
with an emphasis in Art History, defending her provocative thesis in the spring. Her studies have
focused primarily on sexual submission, rape fantasies, fetishism and S&M in literature, art and
culture; which have been enlightened by her life experiences. She asks questions of moral
relativity and "true" feminisms. Morgan is also an illustrator, painter and makeup artist, fascinated
with magical transformations. Drawing from her love of kitsch, rasquachismo, baroque and
experiences in museum studies in in the UK and female history studies, Morgan curated and
hosted her first art show, Hysteria! Visualizing Female Anxiety and has hosted and coordinated
the reoccurring events Drink n Draw, a Dr. Sketchy's inspired drunken figure drawing class and
Musette, a female artist social. In addition to hosting events whenever possible, Morgan created
the female artist collective and creative force Disorderly Conversion in 2013.
May Summer Farnsworth co­founded Riot Grrrl Press and co­edited the zine MARIKA with
Erika Reinstein in the early 1990s. Recently, she published an article about the legacy of Riot
Grrrl Press, “We ARE the Revolution” (co­authored with Kevin Dunn in 2012) in Women’s
Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. She currently teaches courses on Latin American feminist
literature at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY.
Melissa Gira Grant is a writer and independent journalist. Her work has taken her from peep
shows to street protests, and has appeared in Glamour, the Guardian, Reason, TheNation.com,
Wired.com, and Jezebel, among others. She's a contributing editor to Jacobin, and the author of
Playing the Whore (Verso Books, forthcoming 2013).
Clay Harris is an artist and teacher living in Silver Spring, Maryland. He takes care of his mom
and teaches cartooning on weekends.
Gretchen Hasse wrote stories before she ever picked up a pencil to draw, and since then her
work has been narrative, even when she doesn't necessarily intend it to be. Her mind and
creative work are populated with characters inspired by friends, students, relatives, and people
she meets only briefly.
Delia Jean is a Chicago­born cartoonist and storyteller. She is a graduate of the School of the
Art Institute of Chicago and the creator of the comics series Station in Life. Find out more at
www.deliajean.com.
Lyra Hill is a filmmaker, comics artist, performer, and organizer living in Chicago. She is a
member of Trubble Club, the collaborative comics collective, and the founder and organizer of
Brain Frame, the performative comix reading series. Lyra is interested in the unconscious
drives, questionable humor, and the avant­garde.
Franny Howes is a PhD candidate in Rhetoric and Writing at Virginia Tech, and is the creator of
the comic Oh Shit, I’m in Grad School! She has been publishing comics in print and on the web
since 2008. Franny is currently working on her dissertation, tentatively titled From Inclusion to
Transformation: Decolonial Feminist Comics Methodology (With Handy Illustrations).
Sarah Jaffe Sarah Jaffe is an independent journalist covering labor, social and economic
justice, and politics for The Atlantic, The Guardian, In These Times, Truthout, and many other
publications. She is the co­host of Belabored, a labor podcast hosted by Dissent magazine, and
a frequent guest on other TV and radio programs. She lives in Brooklyn with a rescue dog and
too many books.
Elliot Junkyard survived a childhood in the suburbs of New Jersey with the help of a steady diet
of Muppets, Peanuts comics, and Saturday morning cartoons. He graduated from the School of
the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011 with, as his friends put it, "a degree in yarn." His ongoing
project is The Adventures of Vampire Kitty and Space Bat, which combines a love of the absurd,
pop culture references, and cats in space.
Francis Kang is a multidisciplinary artist in Chicago. He is currently working on a documentary
film and will be interviewing artists and participants in the exhibition as part of his film, which
looks at gender, race, and class in cultural production.
Sarabhi Kanga I am a writer and comic artist who loves Batman, grammar and the smell of
paper. I completed a bachelors in engineering but rectified that mistake by deciding to study arts
journalism at SAIC. I am from India and but currently reside in Chicago. I love making comics
and my favorite medium to work in is watercolor. I was always an avid debater and very
interested in Model UN, so political discourse is a great interest of mine, as is science. I hope to
one day combine writing and comics into a profession for myself.
Terri Kapsalis is the author of Jane Addams' Travel Medicine Kit, The Hysterical
Alphabet, and Public Privates: Performing Gynecology from Both Ends of the Speculum.
She is a health educator at Chicago Women's Health Center, a founding member of
Theater Oobleck, and the chair of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago.
Nia King is a queer mixed­race art activist from Boston who is proud to call Oakland home. She
is the creator of the zine Angry Black­White Girl, the film The Craigslist Chronicles, and the
podcast We Want the Airwaves: QPOC Artists on the Rise. You can learn more about her work
at artactivistnia.com.
Abraham Lampert is an artist and comics creator in Chicago currently pursuing a BFA at the
School of the Art Intitute.
Viẹt Lê was born in Sài Gòn, Viẹt Nam in 1976. Lê received his M.F.A. from the University of
California, Irvine, where he has also taught Studio Art and Visual Culture courses. He received
his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California and a postdoctoral fellowship at Academia
Sinica, Taipei. He is an Assistant Professor at the California College of the Arts in the Visual &
Critical Studies Graduate Program and the Visual Studies Program. Lê’s artwork has been
exhibited internationally at The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada; DoBaeBacSa Gallery, Seoul,
Korea; Cape Museum of Fine Arts, MA, USA; H Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand;1a Space, Hong
Kong; among other venues. In 2009, he was a Sovereign Asian Art Prize finalist. Lê has received
fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Fulbright­Hays, William Joiner Center, Fine
Arts Work Center, Center for Khmer Studies, and PEN Center USA.
Jamie Davida Lee is a cartoonist, sculptural illustrator, and lady person from Poughkeepsie,
New York. A student of the Art Institute of Chicago and Ladydrawer, she enjoys making tiny
things, drawing, and smelling old books in the corner of her burrow. Miss Lee currently lives and
studies in Chicago, Il.
Ever Mainard is a Chicago comic. Her joke "Here's Your Rape" went viral and has been
featured on many esteemed websites including Jezebel.com. Ever is one of Chicago's Most
Influential Women in Comedy (Gaper'sBlock) and one of Chicago's best acts to catch (Chicago
Magazine, Chicago Redeye.) Ever is a cast member at Chicago Underground Comedy and
cohost of the Shit Show.
MariNaomi is the Los Angeles­based creator of the graphic memoir Kiss & Tell: A Romantic
Resume, Ages 0 to 22 (Harper Perennial) and the self­published Estrus Comics (est. 1998).
Visit her website at marinaomi.com.
Nicole Marroquin is an interdisciplinary artist and assistant professor of Art Education at SAIC.
Carolina Mayorga’s work addresses issues of social and political content. As a
Colombian­born and naturalized American citizen, she uses her insider/outsider view of
American culture to reveal realities associated to her Latino background. She also uses her own
image as a cultural stereotype, which often results in satirical performance art pieces, unsettling
videos, and playful interactive installations. The artist lives and works in Washington, DC.
Katie McVay’s inability to be anything other than the tiny firecracker she is has resulted in a
quick rise to the top of the Chicago stand­up scene. After only about 18 months of leaving
audiences gobsmacked with her unique brand of being extremely comfortable in her own
discomfort, Katie was asked to join the elite stand­up cast at Chicago Underground Comedy.
Her advice web series “Yell You Better” quickly became a YouTube hit and garnered her fans all
over this great nation. Sure, Katie has opened for big stars like Tom Papa, and sure, Katie has
performed at comedy festivals, but that’s not what’s important. What’s important is the way that
you see more of yourself in Katie’s admittedly damaged take on life than you’d care to admit.
Gabriela Mendez is a Chicago­based artist and draftsperson with awesome hair.
David John Mitchell is a comics artist & scholar originally from Michigan, who received his
Bachelors in Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012. Mitchell has
spoken on comics theory as an invited lecturer and panelist at San Diego International Comic
Con, Wondercon San Francisco, the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo, and other events.
Mitchell lives in Chicago and is working on his debut graphic novel.
Anne Elizabeth Moore is a Fulbright scholar, a UN Press Fellow, the Truthout columnist behind
Ladydrawers: Gender and Comics in the US, and the author of several award­winning books
including Cambodian Grrrl (Cantankerous Titles 2011) and Unmarketable (The New Press
2007). She founded the Ladydrawers Comics Collective after a decade in the comics industry
and was recently called “one of the sharpest thinkers and cultural critics bouncing around the
globe today” by Razorcake. She writes criticism for The New Inquiry, the Baffler, and Dissent
and has two WHOLE cats.
An urban planner by training, Sarah Morton currently works full­time for a non­profit in Chicago.
When not at work, she draws comics about beer, urban design, and existential angst. When
she's not at work or drawing comics, she knits, plays soccer, and obsesses over photography.
Corinne Mucha is a Chicago­based author, illustrator, and teaching artist. Her work includes
the Xeric­funded My Alaskan Summer, the Ignatz­award winning The Monkey in the Basement
and Other Delusions (Retrofit Comics, 2012), and the YA graphic novel Freshman: Tales of 9th
Grade Obsessions, Revelations and Other Nonsense (Zest Books, 2011). See more of her work
at http://www.maidenhousefly.com.
Yasmin Nair is a writer and academic in Uptown, Chicago. She is currently working on a book
titled, Strange Love: Neoliberalism and Affect. This gallery project is based on a future
anti­memoir. Her work is archived at www.yasminnair.net.
Julie Novak is an actor and comedian who has been performing in around the New York
Tri­State area for the last 15 years. She has served as co­emcee of Hudson Valley Broads
Regional Arm Wrestling League (HV BRAWL) for the past 4 years, and studied comedy and
improv at Second City in Chicago and is currently involved in Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in
NYC. See more at julienovak.com.
Isabel Reidy is an SAIC dropout. Apart from comics and drawing, Isabel enjoys playing music
and is in three whole bands named respectively Fight A Scary Dog, Speak Daggers, and Dixie
Lou and the Realbads. 1­800­KRAVLOX is available for purchase at Quimby's.
Liz Rush identifies as a radical feminist, an immigrant, and a pedestrian. She is currently
working on a collection of comic short stories and keeps a graphic diary about her experiences
in Spain called Sim Hemingway. Rush is a self­taught artist and amateur cartoonist. Her work
focuses on women’s narratives and realities. She lives and works in Portland, Oregon.
Ali Scott is an artist who received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of
Chicago in 2013. She lives and works in Chicago has a cat named Sassafras.
Faina Stefadu is a Chicago­based artist and curator.
Illustrator Maggie Siegel­Barele is a queer comics artist living in Brooklyn, NY. While she
dabbles in many creative ventures (anything from art class with kids and dressing up for
elaborate role­playing games) she enjoys illustrating comics above all else.
Rachel Swanson is a non­binary comics and fiber artist based in Chicago. The work they make
deals with queer expression, fantasy/sci­fi, educational materials, kink/porn, non­binary genders,
and zombies. They spend their non­art time watching cartoons on Netflix and enjoying the
company of cats.
Laura Szumowski is an illustrator and writer living in Chicago. She is the author of several
nonfiction guidebooks, and is best known for her work concerning women's health such as Tip of
the Iceberg: A Book About the Clitoris and Cycling: A Guide to Menstruation. See more of Laura's
work at lauraszumowski.com.
Bonsovathary Uoeung is a 23 year­old Cambodian. She enrolled in a course called
Introduction to Comics and Publication for Women at Pannasastra University of
Cambodia, which was taught by Sara Drake, an artist from Anne Elizabeth Moore’s
project Independent Youth­Driven Cultural Production (IYDCPC), and was encouraged
to continue making her own comic series entitled Ginger the Kindergartener. Her comics
are mostly based on real experiences and childhood memories of herself and her
mother. However, her real vision is to introduce Cambodian life to the world through her
comic art.
Esther Pearl Watson has an MFA from CalArts and is the author of the comic Unlovable for
Bust Magazine and Frantagraphics Books. She also co­authored a how­to with her husband,
Mark Todd called What’cha Mean What’s a Zine? Watson’s illustrations have appeared in many
newspapers and magazines including New York Times and Lucky Peach. Her paintings have
been exhibited at The Santa Monica Museum of Art, the Oakland Museum of California, the L.A.
Weekly Biennial at Track 16. She teaches at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena,
California.
Lauren Weinstein is a cartoonist whose books include, Girl Stories and The Goddess of War,
and her work has been published in Kramer’s Ergot, The Ganzfeld, An Anthology of Graphic
Fiction, and The Best American Comics of 2007 and 2010. Her work has also appeared in the
New York Times, Glamour, and Heeb magazines. She is currently working on a sequel to Girl
Stories.
Sarah Welch is a print and textile design artist and enjoys the desert. She lives in Texas, and
has feelings about it.
Elizabeth White is a multidisciplinary artist whose work has been exhibited nationally and
internationally. She holds a BA from Vassar College and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts.
Based in Brooklyn, she teaches at Bennington College in Vermont. Past projects can be seen at
www.whitespaceprojects.com.
Mara Williams is an illustrator and zinester and a PhD student in Communication and Society at
the University of Oregon. She’s studied post­feminist and post­racist logics in online fandom,
open source online archives, and queer religious blogs. She likes to think about ways to combine
critical analyses of gender and sexuality with silly animal drawings.
Polly Yates is an English artist now living in Chicago. She received her MFA in Fine Art from
Central Saint Martins, London (UK), in 2011. Currently working mainly in collage, Yates will be
working alongside fellow Chicago­based artists Danielle Chenette, Elliot Junkyard, and Sarah
Bell on a large wall mural that explores ideas of sex and gender.
Caitlin Yates is a self­proclaimed ‘illustroprintmaker’ and sequential artist. She grew up in
Connecticut, and earned her BFA in Painting and a BA in Psychology at the University of
Connecticut. Today, Caitlin is an activist by day and an artist by night, and her work examines
topics such as feminism, organized religion, violence against women prevention, and
herpetology.
Andi Zeisler is the cofounder and editorial director of Bitch Media, and a sometimes comics
artist. She lives and draws in Portland, Oregon.