Shaenon K. Garrity
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Shaenon K. Garrity (born 4 May 1978) is a webcomics writer and artist, best known as the creator of Narbonic. She is one of the most prominent cartoonists in the Modern Tales network of commercial webcomic sites and became the site's editor on August 1, 2006.[1] In addition to writing and drawing Narbonic, she writes (and often draws) spinoff series L'il Mell and Sergio for Girlamatic, writes Smithson (drawn by Brian Moore, Robert T. Stevenson and Roger Langridge) for Webcomics Nation and has recently started a new comic Skin Horse that she illustrates and co-authors with Jeffrey Channing Wells. In October 2007, she began a column called "All the Comics in the World" for comiXology.com She lives in San Francisco, California, with her husband, artist and Cartoon Art Museum curator Andrew Farago.
She works for Viz Media as an editor and volunteers at the Cartoon Art Museum. She has also written for Marvel Comics, including their 2005-2007 Marvel Holiday Specials.[2]
In 2005, Garrity won the Outstanding Writing award, and was also nominated for Outstanding Comedic Comic, from the Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards, She was also named co-Lulu of the Year by the Friends of Lulu, sharing the award with the Flight anthology.
