Dori Seda

Dori Seda
Dori Seda on the Women In Comics panel at the 1982 San Diego Comic Con.
Born	Dorthea Antonette Seda 1951
Died	February 25, 1988(1988-02-25) (aged 37)
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Cartoonist
Pseudonym(s)	Sylvia Silicosis
Notable works	Lonely Nights Comics
Awards	Dori Seda Memorial Award for Women

Dorthea Antonette "Dori" Seda (1951 – February 25, 1988) was an artist best known for her underground comix work in the 1980s. She occasionally used the pen name "Sylvia Silicosis." Her comics combined exaggerated fantasy and ribald humor with documentation of her life in the Mission District of San Francisco, California.

Seda was originally a painter and ceramics artist, graduating from in Illinois State University with a B.A. in art. To pursue her interest in comics, she took a job as a bookkeeper at the San Francisco publisher Last Gasp. Her first published comics work appeared in Robert Crumb's anthology magazine Weirdo in 1981. She was subsequently published in Wimmen's Comix, San Francisco Comic Book, Viper, Yellow Silk, Prime Cuts, Cannibal Romance, Weird Smut Comix, Tits & Clits, Twisted Sisters, and her solo book Lonely Nights Comics (which was banned in England upon its release).

A heavy smoker who suffered from emphysema, she may also have contracted silicosis from her ceramics materials. Seda died at age 37 from respiratory failure after catching the flu.

Her work has been collected in the book Dori Stories (), which also includes memorial tributes, including the story "Dori Bangs" by Bruce Sterling, which imagines a future marriage between her and music critic Lester Bangs (whom she never met). She was also featured in the short documentary Gap-Toothed Women by Les Blank, a documentary about the history of women with a gap between their two front teeth. She created a poster for the film.