Melinda Gebbie

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Melinda Gebbie (1982)

Melinda Gebbie (* 1937 in San Francisco ) is an American comic book artist, author and illustrator. Her best-known work is Lost Girls , which she began working on with Alan Moore in the early 1990s and which was released by Top Shelf Productions in 2006.

Life

Melinda Gebbie was born in San Francisco . She started working as a comic book author in the early 1970s. Her first work appeared in the anthology Wimmen's Comix (Last Gasp, 1970–1991). Additional posts have been published in Tits & Clits , Wet Satin , and Anarchy Comics . In 1977 she published her full own book Fresca Zizis (Last Gasp, 1977). With these works she became known in the field of underground comix .

When she moved to England in 1984, could there not benefit from this awareness and began working as an illustrator for the animated film When the Wind Blows ( When the wind blows ). After about a year, she returned her work on Strip AIDS to the comic strip. Here she met her future husband Alan Moore for the first time. For a few years she worked as a regular employee in the comic business until Neil Gaiman reunited her with Alan Moore in the early 1990s. The joint project by Moore and Gebbie, an 8-page contribution to the never published book The Tales of Shangri-La , grew into the book Lost Girls. Individual chapters first appeared in Taboo (Issue 5, Kitchen Sink Press, 1991). It wasn't until 2006, 15 years later, that Top Shelf Productions published the full book. While working on Lost Girls , Gebbie and Moore created the heroine Cobweb , whose stories were published in the anthology Tomorrow Stories (America's Best Comics, 1999-) between 1999 and 2002.

Works

Comics & a .:

Anthologies

Contributions to comic anthologies:

  • Cobweb (with Alan Moore, in Tomorrow Stories # 1–8, America's Best Comics / Wildstorm , 1999–2002)
  • Heartbreak Hotel
  • Strip AIDS
  • "The Cockpit" (in Wet Satin # 1, Last Gasp Publishing)
  • "My Three Swans" (in Young Lust # 6, Last Gasp Publishing)
  • Wimmen's Comix # 4–7 (Last Gasp Publishing)
  • Tits & Clits (Nanny Goat Productions)
  • Anarchy (Last Gasp Publishing)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wimmen's Comix . Lambiek comic book store website , Amsterdam, The Netherlands, accessed November 21, 2009.
  2. ↑ Taboo. 5 in the Library of Congress Catalog.
personal data
SURNAME Gebbie, Melinda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American comic book artist, author and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco