Janelle Blarg is a Bay Area writer, cartoonist, and humorist.

In 1990, while other bad kids were making secret bongs in her high school Crafts class, she made her first self-published publication, Tales of Blarg, which became a definitive and influential East Bay punk fanzine.

Her writing, illustration, and comics have been published by Three Rivers Press, Silver Sprocket, KQED, Popula, Manic D Press, Maximum RocknRoll, Vice, Coyote Media, Berkeleyside, and others. She continues to hold a special place for the xeroxed and ephemeral and will always catch feelings when she sees her art stapled to a telephone pole.

Janelle has been a touring drummer, a pop culture journalist, the subject of a seminal riot grrrl album, and the Marketing Director for San Francisco publisher Last Gasp. She currently lives in Oakland.