Vanessa Davis - 90s Mini-Comics Oral History Archives Project

Vanessa Davis is the creator of Spaniel Rage and Make Me a Woman!

Vanessa Davis is an illustrator and cartoonist currently living in Los Angeles. She is the author of Spaniel Rage (Buenaventura Press, 2005) (re-released in March 2017 by Drawn and Quarterly) and Make Me a Woman, (Drawn and Quarterly, 2010). She's currently working on her next book for Drawn and Quarterly and mentoring at the Sequential Artists Workshop.

In recent years she's taught at California College of the Arts, and was the art director and comics editor at Popula. She won the Terry Southern Award for humor from The Paris Review in 2017. Some of her other clients include: The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vogue, SpongeBob Comics, Amplify Education, and Bento Box Entertainment.

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