Contributors | Comics For Choice

Ally Shwed Ally Shwed is a cartoonist who specializes in comics journalism and nonfiction. Her work has been published by First Second Books, The Nib, Vox, and The Boston Globe. She lives in Jersey City with her partner, Gerardo, and their two cats, Egon and Schneider.

Alicia is a Jane’s Due Process Youth Advocacy Fellow and former Jane’s Due Process client. She had her first child at 15 and when she found out she was pregnant again at 16, she decided to have an abortion. She sought the help of Jane’s Due Process for judicial bypass support. As a youth fellow for JDP, she fights for the full range of reproductive rights for young people, especially teen parents, teens seeking abortion care, and teens that are forced to navigate the family court system.

Andrew Carl is an Eisner and Harvey Award-winning editor and writer for comics. His upcoming series, Only Hope, explores things deeply important to his psyche: anxiety, depression, and talking cats.

Anise Simon lives in Durham, NC. Anise is enrolled in night classes for Electrical Systems Technology at her local community college and works as the Southern Funds Coordinator at the National Network of Abortion Funds, where she provides support to grassroots abortion funds in the South. Anise is also a helpline volunteer with the Carolina Abortion Fund. Loves: NC hip hop, pimiento cheese, safe spaces, and adventures.

Archie Bongiovanni is a cartoonist and illustrator living in Minneapolis. Their graphic novel, A Quick And Easy Guide To They/Them Pronouns was published with Limerence Press/Oni Press and has been praised by School Library Journal (starred review), was a Publishers Weekly Favorite Reads of 2018, a 2018 Chicago Public Library Best Book Of The Year for Teen Nonfiction and one of YALSA's Great Graphic Novels For Teens. Their next graphic novel, Grease Bats, published by Boom! Studios, was a Mosaic Award Finalist in 2019.

Anna Sellheim graduated from the Center For Cartoon Studies in 2016. She has had her work featured on the Nib, Upworthy, and a bunch of cool anthologies. She moves around a lot.

Benita Ulisano is a longtime abortion rights activist, clinic escort and founder of The Clinic Vest Project.

Bree Jordan is a Salt Lake City based comic artist and health care professional. Her work is frequently concerned with bodily autonomy, medical rights, patient advocacy and end of life planning.

Brittany Mostiller is executive director of the Chicago Abortion Fund, a nonprofit that promotes reproductive justice through funding abortion and organizing for racial, economic and gender justice. A native to the south side of Chicago, Brittany is passionate about authenticity, community organizing and writing. You can read some of her pieces at Medium.com/@brimost. When she isn’t busy saving the world you can find her dancing with her children or watching How to Get Away With Murder.

Candice Russell is a writer and abortion storyteller whose work has been featured in Teen Vogue, ELLE, Glamour and The Huffington Post. She is a proud NNAF We Testify storytelling fellow and currently serves on the board of NARAL Pro-Choice Texas. Candice lives in Dallas with her schnauzer, Madden, where she can usually be found waiting in line for what is likely her third latte.

CB Hart is a cartoonist living in San Mateo and graduate of the Sequential Artist Workshop.

Cathy Camper is the author of the award-winning Lowriders in Space graphic novel series, Ten Ways to Hear Snow, Bugs Before Time, and Arab Arab All Year Round (2022). She also writes zines, including Sugar Needle, and is a founding member of the Portland Women of Color zine collective. An Arab American and a graduate of VONA/Voices writing, Cathy is a librarian and lives in Portland, Oregon.

Cielo Krase is a trans male who lives quietly with his partner and two cats, Pickle Chip and Honey. When not working at his day job he can be found at home working on art projects or indulging in internet culture.

Claudia E. Berger is a New York City based cartoonist. She makes comics about mental health, mythology and houseplants, and spends way too much time thinking about science fiction.

Dr. Cynthia Greenlee is a North Carolina-based journalist and historian. She's the senior editor at Rewire, the go-to online site for news and commentary about reproductive justice, health, and rights in the United States. She's also working on a history of Black Americans and abortion. Follow her @CynthiaGreenlee.

Daniela Diaz is a We Testify abortion story teller and works at a national reproductive health organization, where she coordinates resources and services for over half the abortion providers in North AmericaDaniela’s advocacy and activism focuses strongly on the intersection of reproductive justice, HIV/Aids and immigration from a global perspective.

Eliot Lady lives in Queens with a thousand hungry ghosts and a cat. They "quit" art and now hoard their comics all for themself while working as a mental health provider. For their thirty fifth birthday this year they got a bilateral salpingectomy and are pleased that they will never reproduce.

Erin Lux is a Brooklyn based illustrator and cartoonist. She's the creator of the webcomic, Fascist Friends, and many other short irreverent comics.

Gianna Meola graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a BFA in Illustration. She enjoys traveling, sketching, and going on walks.

Hallie Jay Pope is a lawyer/cartoonist living in Washington, DC. She runs the Graphic Advocacy Project, a nonprofit that uses visual communication tools---like comics!---to explain legal concepts.

Heidi Williamson is the Senior Policy Analyst for the Women’s Health and Rights program at the Center for American Progress and the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Prior to joining American Progress, Heidi worked for SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective and the Services Employee International Union (SEIU). She is Board Chair of SPARK Reproductive Justice Now!, a reproductive justice organization based in Atlanta, Georgia and is an avid comic book reader.

Jaz Malone After being attacked by a billy goat at a young age, Jaz decided that leaving her Detroit, MI home was for the best. She moved to Philadelphia, PA, where she received her BFA in Animation from The University of The Arts. She currently works in the tri-state area as an illustrator, digital arts instructor, and tea enthusiast. She has yet to be attacked by another goat.

Jennifer Camper 's books include “Rude Girls and Dangerous Women” and “subGURLZ”, and she edited two “Juicy Mother” comics anthologies. Her work appears in numerous publications, and has been exhibited internationally. She is the founding director of the biennial Queers & Comics Conference, and sister of Cathy Camper.

Kat Fajardo is a Honduran Colombian award-winning cartoonist and illustrator from the lively and magical place of Loisaida, New York City. They are the creator of Miss Quinces, which was a National Indie Bestseller, received two starred reviews, and was selected as a summer reading pick by Entertainment Weekly, Publishers Weekly and more!

Kate Kerns is a graphic designer and illustrator from Kansas, now living in Austin, TX. She has worked as a victim advocate for the National Domestic Violence Hotline.

Dr. Katherine Brown is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. She provides full-spectrum reproductive healthcare, including abortion care.

Katie Fricas is a cartoonist and illustrator in New York City. She has published political comics in the Guardian and is the creator of the pop culture zine Fashionique. Her drawings appear regularly in Guernica magazine.

Ke'Asia Brown is a Jane’s Due Process Youth Advocacy Fellow and former Jane’s Due Process client. Since navigating the legal system as a teen seeking abortion care, she has become passionate about fighting for the reproductive rights of all young people in Texas. She is currently studying criminal justice and seeks to use her activism to fight for the full range of reproductive and racial justice.

Kendra Josie Kirkpatrick enjoys large amounts of black on both her comic pages and her clothes, and has a passion for music that features people screaming. BFA Cartooning, SVA '16.

Kennedy Tarrell is a Los-Angeles based story artist, illustrator, writer, and comic-maker. Originally from Omaha, Nebraska, she's currently working as a Story Artist at Walt Disney Animation Studios.

Kriota Willberg ’s comics focus on body-oriented sciences. She is the inaugural Artist-In-Residence at the New York Academy of Medicine. Kriota is best known for her work about injury prevention for cartoonists and artists.

Kris Louis Weaver is an illustrator, cartoonist, graphic designer, and character designer originally from Long Island, New York. They have lived all over the USA in the pursuit of adventure and experience. They're an avid reader, practitioner of American Sign Language, ukulele player, dungeons and dragons spelunker, motorcycle enthusiast, hippie, and they love learning new things. They have a cat named Charlie and they love fun facts and dad jokes. If you own chickens, Kris wants to see pictures of them.

Laura Lannes is a cartoonist and illustrator from Brazil living in New York City.

Laura Martin is an artist currently enrolled at the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, VT. When she's not drawing comics, she likes reading, playing video games, and jumping into very deep, cold bodies of water.

Leah Hayes is an illustrator, musician, songwriter, and producer. She is the creator of the graphic novel Not Funny Ha-Ha. She works out of New York City and Los Angeles.

Leah Nichols is a San Francisco/Seoul-based designer seeking to expand models of kinship, increase access to collective histories, and champion the compatibility of joy and trauma.

Lilly Taing is a Chinese-Cambodian American artist who loves reading and telling stories. She likes playing with colors and shapes and trying to capture quiet, mundane moments in life, and all the feelings contained within them, in extraordinary ways. She's always up for an adventure and hopes you have a colorful day.

Lindsay Rodriguez is the Communications Manager for the National Network of Abortion Funds. She joined NNAF after serving as Board President for the Lilith Fund for Reproductive Equity. From San Antonio, she'll always be a proud Texan who loves a dog walk, warm patio nights, and a good book.

Lizartistry (she/they) creates digital art, most often in the form of visual notes, guided by a passion for lifelong learning and revolutionary praxis.

Lucy Haslam graduated last year from Falmouth University, UK and now specialises in editorial work and comics. Some of these comics are made as part of the group Froglump, which has tabled at fairs around the country and does fun events together.

MJ Flores is an abortion storyteller with We Testify, a leadership program of the National Network of Abortion Funds, and shares her story to confront abortion stigma and challenge anti-abortion legislation. By day, MJ is a public sector strategy consultant working on health, economics, and gender issues in the United States and abroad.

Maddie Dennis is an animator and comic artist who loves worms. She lives in Providence, RI, and teaches both comics and animation up in Boston. Her dream is to become covered in thick moss.

Mallory McMaster is an abortion activist, dog mom, terrible cook, and cleaning enthusiast hailing from Cleveland, OH.

Michelle Kinsey Bruns is an advocate for safety and privacy of abortion clinic patients and staff, and has been a clinic escort or clinic defender at anti-choice protests in nine states. She works in web development and digital strategy. When not behind a keyboard or in front of a clinic, Michelle is most likely splashing through a creek with her Siberian huskies, making a tasty mess in her kitchen, or planning a road trip.

Mick Moran is a radical full-spectrum doula and the editor of The Doula Project’s zine, DIY Doula: Self-Care for Before, During, & After Your Abortion. They have spoken at institutions such as NYU and Hunter College on issues such as media activism; reproductive justice for transgender, gender non-conforming, and intersex people; and disability justice.

Nomi Kane is an alumni of The Center for Cartoon Studies who loves rock and roll, and the Oakland Athletics. Nomi draws editorial cartoons and short fiction comics whenever she can. By day, she works as a Staff Artist at the Schulz Studio in sunny Santa Rosa.

Plan C is a public health meets creative campaign to transform access to abortion in the US by normalizing the self-directed option of abortion pills by mail.

Rachel Hays is a writer and the owner/operator of risograph micropress Taxonomy Press. She lives in Detroit with her white pitbull Audrey, who graciously posed for this comic back in 2016.

Rachel Merrill was born & raised in Baton Rouge Louisiana and now lives in the much colder Astoria Queens. She enjoys beer & donuts but not together.

Rachel Wilson is a writer from the UK whose work has appearead online at i-D, The Guardian, Broadly, Noisey and more. She also works as a freelance editor and translator, as well as grappling with her hand-me-down film camera in her spare time.

Renee Bracey Sherman is the founder and executive director of We Testify, an organization dedicated to the leadership and representation of people who have abortions, focusing on the intersection of race, class, and gender identity and centering those who’ve experienced financial and logistical barriers to abortion. She has trained hundreds of abortion storytellers in the United States and around the world, including elected officials. In 2014, Renee authored Saying Abortion Aloud, a guide to abortion storytelling, and in 2015 she co-authored Speak Up & Stay Safe(r), a multilingual digital guide on handling online harassment.

Rickie Solinger is a curator and a historian. She is the author or editor of eleven books about reproductive politics and satellite issues.

Sage Coffey is a nervous little cartoonist gremlin. They like to make comics that make them laugh and then cry and if they're lucky, laugh again.

Samantha Romero studied Global Studies at Randolph Macon Women's College in Lynchburg, Virginia and is pursuing her Master's in Sociology at the University of Texas at El Paso. She was an organizer for the Wendy Davis Campaign, which sparked her passion for reproductive justice. Samantha works full time at a Texas state senate office, is the President of the West Fund, and a member of We Testify.

Sarah Crowe is a sculptor and cartoonist made in Austin but made for New York

Sarah "Shay" Mirk (she/they) is a graphic journalist, editor, and teacher. She is the author of Guantanamo Voices (Abrams, 2020), an illustrated oral history of Guantanamo Bay prison, which Kirkus called “extraordinary… an eye-opening, damning indictment of one of America’s worst trespasses.” She is also a zine-maker and illustrator whose comics have been featured in The Nib, The New Yorker, Bitch, and NPR.

Seth Smith is an award winning comic artist based on the east coast. His passion for comics comes from his background in communications and a formal artistic education in illustration and a degree in comics from SCAD Atlanta.

Sharon Rimann He loves to work on projects that feature transgender queer black men like himself, romantic plots, and fun or educational narratives.

Sophia Foster-Dimino is a cartoonist and illustrator.

Steph Kraft Sheley Stephanie Kraft Sheley, JD, MHA is an attorney and advocate for abortion access and birth justice. She is the founder and project director of Right By You, a text line that helps Missourians access abortion care. She is the principal attorney of Kraft Sheley Law, LLC, a law practice focused on abortion and birth, serves on the board of the Birth Rights Bar Association, and is a full-spectrum doula and childbirth educator.

Stephanie Rodriguez is a Bronx-born comic book artist and illustrator. She graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 2011 with a BFA in Illustration. Stephanie creates illustrations and self-published comics depicting the highs and lows of everyday life. Stephanie's work has been featured on BuzzFeed, Remezcla, Vayner Media, and Michigan Radio (NPR). Her debut young adult graphic novel is set to publish on April 25, 2023, by Kokila an imprint of Penguin Random House.

Tanya DePass is the founder and Director of I Need Diverse Games, a not-for-profit foundation based in Chicago, that is dedicated to better diversification of all aspects of gaming. She is a lifelong Chicagoan who loves everything about gaming, #INeedDiverseGames spawn point, and wants to make it better and more inclusive for everyone. She’s the Founder and EIC of @OutofTokensCast, the Diversity Liaison for GaymerX and often speaks on issues of diversity, feminism, race, intersectionality & other topics at conventions. Her writing appears in Uncanny Magazine, Polygon, Vice Gaming, Waypoint, Wiscon Chronicles, Paste Games and other publications.

Tatiana Gill is a Seattle based cartoonist who uses her art to show strength and vulnerability. Themes include body-positivity, feminism, mental health and recovery. Tatiana has created dozens of self-published comic books, teaches comics, and contributes comics to local & global publications.

Vreni received her BFA in Cartooning from the School of Visual Arts. She loves making comics that inform and inspire. When not drawing she’s falling down YouTube rabbit holes, playing puzzle games, and taking long naps. She lives in New York with her husband and cat.

Wren Chavers is doing their best!! A recent graduate of the School of Visual arts they're working to make all the comics they can!! When they aren't making comics, they're making memes or bread or some weird combination of the two.

Yamani Hernandez is the Executive Director of the National Network of Abortion Funds an organization that builds the capacity and power of grassroots member organizations and leverages their direct access to over 100,000 abortion seekers across the country to create cultural and political change. Yamani is a staunch advocate for bringing marginalized populations of people to center. She has built her career in reproductive justice through state based work on behalf of the sexual health, rights and identities of youth. Yamani holds a B.S. from Cornell University, an M.Arch. from the University of Washington. She manages her team which spans twelve states from Chicago where she co-parents her two children. In her spare time, Yamani runs, practices yoga, and volunteers as a birth doula.