Mary Fleener

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Mary Fleener
comics artist
AwardsInkpot Award (2019)[1]
WebsiteOfficial website Edit this at Wikidata

Mary Fleener (born September 14, 1951) is an American

rock band
called The Wigbillies.

Among Fleener's influences are

Mickey Rat
) encouraged her to create her own comics.

Her works have been exhibited at La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Track 16, David Zapt Gallery, Laguna Beach Art Museum Annex, LACE (Los Angeles), COCA (Seattle), Southwestern College, Patricia Correia Gallery, Sushi Gallery. In 2020 her work was included in the exhibit Women in Comics: Looking Forward, Looking Back at the Society of Illustrators in New York City.[3]

She lives and works in Encinitas, California.[4]

Early life and education

Mary Fleener was born in 1951.

Disney from 1941 to 1943. Fleener attended Cal State Long Beach for 4 years where she focused on printmaking,[6] but she disliked the art program's focus on abstract works and dropped out in 1976.[7] In 1984, she read an article "new comix," by Matt Groening in the LA WEEKLY that inspired her to create her first comic works. She developed her aesthetic on her own, and considers herself self-taught.[8]

Early works

She started drawing

comix depicted the artist and a colorful cast of characters playing in rock bands, surfing, going to college, and gleefully partaking of drugs and casual sex, among other things. Fleener's art style complements her stories, which are narrated in matter-of-fact but bemused first-person dialogue.[10]

Bibliography

Solo work

Compilations

Life of the Party.

ISBN 1-56097-261-0, a collection of an autobiographical series (as translated in German and Spanish)[11]

Contributed to

References

  1. ^ Inkpot Award
  2. ^ von Busack, Richard. "Razor on the Mirror: The '70s live on in all their sordid glory in the autobiographical stories of Mary Fleener". metroactive.com. Metro Publishing Inc. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
  3. ^ "Homepage". Archived from the original on June 1, 2020. Retrieved June 7, 2020.
  4. ^ "North Coast Current : Mary Fleener lives art on the edge". North Coast Current. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
  5. ^ "Lambiek Comiclopedia: Mary Fleener". lambiek.net/comiclopedia.html. Lambiek. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
  6. ^ Pagano, Ken. "Mary Fleener lives art on the edge". northcoastcurrent.com. North Coast Current. Retrieved March 10, 2015.
  7. ^ Music and art intertwine for Mary Fleener | Encinitas Advocate
  8. ^ "Mary Fleener ~ Bio". maryfleener.com. Archived from the original on June 5, 2017. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
  9. ^ a b "Mary Fleener". lambiek.net. January 1, 1970. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
  10. ^ "Life of the Party: Cartoonist Mary Fleener Draws On a Zest for Life and an Appreciation for the World's Everyday Zaniness". Los Angeles Times. January 8, 1997. Archived from the original on March 11, 2015. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
  11. ^ a b c "Mary Fleener". sdcomicfest.org. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
  12. ^ "The Mineshaft Index to Back Issues". Mineshaft. Retrieved June 20, 2018.

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