Diane DiMassa
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Diane DiMassa (born 1959) is an American feminist author and cartoonist.
DiMassa's works include graphic novels and comics featuring the character Hothead Paisan, a self-described "homicidal lesbian terrorist... with scary hair and a fetish for guns, grenades, mallets and sharp objects", initially published by Giant Ass Publishing. The comics have been collected in book form and published by Cleis Press. In addition to Hothead herself, the comics feature her cat Chicken, who offers dry inciteful commentary throughout.
Diane DiMassa has contributed to a number of comic anthologies, including Robert Kirby's Strange Looking Exile in the early 1990s. In 2005, she contributed new work to the comic anthology Juicy Mother, edited by Jennifer Camper, which did not feature Hothead, and more recently to Juicy Mother #2: How They Met, released in 2007.
In addition, DiMassa is the co-author of Jokes and the Unconscious: A Graphic Novel by Daphne Gottlieb and Diane DiMassa (Cleis Press, 2006), and Pussycat Fever by Kathy Acker, Diane Dimassa, and Freddie Baer (AK Press, 1995).
DiMassa's work has also been featured in Gay Comics, Frighten the Horses, The Advocate, and Oh...
DiMassa grew up in West Haven, CT.
[edit] External links
- Hothead Paisan Website
- Diane, DiMassa (1999). Complete Hothead Paisan. San Francisco: Cleis Press. ISBN 1-57344-084-1.
- Jokes and the Unconscious
- The Zines of Diane DiMassa
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