Shaenon K. Garrity

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Shaenon K. Garrity
Garrity in 2010
Born (1978-05-04) May 4, 1978 (age 45)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Cartoonist, Writer, Editor
Notable works
Narbonic, Skin Horse
www.shaenon.com

Shaenon K. Garrity is an American

science-fiction author best known for her webcomics Narbonic and Skin Horse. She collaborated with various artists to write webcomics for the Modern Tales-family of webcomic subscription services in the early 2000s, and write columns for various comics journals. Since 2003, Garrity has done freelance editing for Viz Media on various manga
translations.

Early life

Garrity was born in

college newspaper. Once out of college, Garrity worked as a front-desk secretary at Viz Media for three years while simultaneously creating Narbonic.[2]

Webcomics

Shaenon Garrity conceived her daily webcomic

search engines. She also submitted Narbonic to the webcomic portal Keenspot, but it was rejected. Garrity had no plans to profit from her work, but she was curious how far her readership would grow. Narbonic's audience grew slowly during its first year, but shot up significantly in 2001, hitting Garrity with steep bandwidth charges.[5]

Narbonic was part of the launch line-up of

Serializer, Garrity worked with Tom Hart to write TrunkTown.[8] After the launch of Webcomics Nation, Garrity wrote Smithson, drawn by Brian Moore and Roger Langridge. Garrity became content editor for Modern Tales in 2006. She revived the long-form webcomic section of the website and worked on implementing Project Wonderful.[7]

Garrity concluded Narbonic on December 31, 2006,[7] and Garrity began a commentated "director's cut" of the webcomic online a few years later. During Narbonic's run, Garrity was contacted by Narbonic reader Jeffrey Wells, who was writing a story that shared some elements with Garrity's webcomic. In 2008, Garrity and Wells launched the daily webcomic Skin Horse.[3] Telling the story of a top secret government agency that handles non-humans as armed social workers, Skin Horse was the most popular webcomic on Webcomics Nation until it was moved to its own website and GoComics. The first volumes of Skin Horse were published by a San Francisco Bay Area artist group, the Couscous Comics collective.[9][4] Skin Horse concluded in 2022, and the last of its twelve print volumes was published.[10]

In 2010, Garrity brought back Li'l Mell with a new storyline, this time collaborating with artist Cameron Nielson.[11]

Other work

Garrity began volunteering at the

Tenchi Muyo for the English-language Shonen Jump magazine, and wrote reviews for the Animerica magazine.[2][5] Garrity wrote for Marvel Comics in the mid-2000s, writing the 2005–2007 Marvel Holiday Specials. She was a regular contributor for Sequential Tart, The Comics Journal,[7] Publishers Weekly, and Anime News Network
.

Handling the localization of Case Closed, Garrity became responsible for official translations of the names of new characters.[13] Garrity intended to write the book CLAMP in America in 2011, a volume which was intended to cover the history of the popular four-member manga creation team CLAMP. However, this release was cancelled due to copyright issues.[14]

Garrity wrote short

CBLDF Presents Manga: Introduction, Challenges, and Best Practices.[18]

Personal life

Garrity is married to artist and Cartoon Art Museum curator Andrew Farago, and they moved to Berkeley, California in 2009. The two had a son in 2014.[19][20]

Awards

Garrity won the 2005

"Lulu of the Year" award, alongside Kazu Kibuishi.[21] In 2005, Garrity's Narbonic won in the "Outstanding Writing" category of the Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards.[22] During her spotlight panel at the 2022 Comic-Con International, Garrity received the Inkpot Award for Achievement in Comic Arts.[23]

References

  1. ^ Rhode, Mike (August 23, 2013). "Meet a Visiting Cartoonist: A Chat with Shaenon Garrity". Washington City Paper.
  2. ^ a b Lawlor, Layla (August 2003). "Just Something About Mad Scientists". Sequential Tart.
  3. ^ a b Martinson, Patti (October 5, 2009). "Couscous Collective - Tasty Comics - Shaenon Garrity". Sequential Tart.
  4. ^ a b Dueben, Alex (September 17, 2010). "More Than One Way to "Skin Horse"". Comic Book Resources.
  5. ^ a b "Mad Science and the Art of Comicking: Community Interview with Shaenon Garrity". Comix Talk. July 27, 2004.
  6. Comics Beat
    . August 1, 2006.
  7. ^
    The Comics Reporter
    .
  8. ^ McCLoud, Scott (July 2004). "A Personal Top Twenty". scottmccloud.com. Archived from the original on August 4, 2007.
  9. Comics Beat
    . July 7, 2009.
  10. ^ MacDonald, Heidi (December 30, 2022). "The Beat's 2023 Creator Survey Part 2: Previews and prognostications". Comics Beat.
  11. ^ Alverson, Brigid (October 28, 2010). "The return of Li'l Mell". Comic Book Resources.
  12. ^ "Ten Questions With Shaenon Garrity". Comixpedia. October 2006. Archived from the original on October 25, 2006.
  13. ^ Toole, Mike (December 2, 2019). "The One Truth, And Nothing But the One Truth: An Oral History of Case Closed". Anime News Network.
  14. ^ Manry, Gia (June 2, 2011). "Del Rey's CLAMP in America Book Cancelled". Anime News Network.
  15. Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
    .
  16. ^ Englert, Bradley (April 2014). "Author spotlight: Shaenon K. Garrity". Lightspeed.
  17. ^ Higgins, Jim (February 6, 2011). "'Machine of Death': killer stories to die for". Times Herald-Record. Archived from the original on October 8, 2012. Retrieved June 1, 2011.
  18. ^ Green, Scott (August 15, 2013). "Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Sells Frank Miller Signed "Lone Wolf and Cub" Promo". Crunchyroll.
  19. Comics Beat
    .
  20. ^ Berry, Michael (November 11, 2019). "No man knows as much about Batman as this Berkeley man". Berkeleyside.
  21. ^ "The Lulu Awards". Friends of Lulu. Archived from the original on October 16, 2006.
  22. ^ "2005 Results". Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards. Archived from the original on January 9, 2010.
  23. ^ De Blieck Jr., Augie (July 26, 2022). "Journalist". Pipeline Comics.

External links

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