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A photo of writer and artist, Shaenon K. Garrity
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Born | May 4, 1978 |
Nationality | American |
Area(s) | Cartoonist, Writer, Editor |
Notable works
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Narbonic |
Awards | 2005 Outstanding Writing award, nominated for Outstanding Comedic Comic by Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards, 2005 Lulu of the Year Award from The Friends of Lulu |
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Shaenon K. Garrity (born May 4, 1978) is a webcomics writer and artist, best known as the creator of Narbonic. She has been an editor for Viz Media, working on over 20 manga series including Naruto, One Piece, Inuyasha and Case Closed. She has contributed to many comics, cartoons and manga publications including Animerica, Nickelodeon Magazine, Otaku USA and websites Anime News Network, The Comics Journal.
Garrity was one of the most prominent cartoonists in the Modern Tales network of commercial webcomic sites, and served as the site's editor from 2006 to 2012 In addition to writing and drawing Narbonic, she wrote (and often drew) spinoff series Li'l Mell and Sergio for Girlamatic, wrote Smithson (drawn by Brian Moore, Robert T. Stevenson and Roger Langridge) for Webcomics Nation and is currently working on the comic Skin Horse which she illustrates and co-authors with Jeffrey Channing Wells. One of the original comics on serializer was Trunktown, a Hutch Owen spin-off drawn by Tom Hart and written by Garrity. She wrote a column called "All the Comics in the World" for comiXology.com from 2007 to 2012, and currently writes a webcomic review column called No One Knows You're A Dog for The Comics Journal.