Joan Hilty

Joan Hilty
Nationality American
Area(s) Cartoonist, Editor
Awards Best Graphic Story, International Horror Guild Award
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Joan Hilty is an American comic book editor and cartoonist. She has worked in editorial for mainstream publishers DC Comics and Nickelodeon, and worked independently as both a writer-artist and editor. As an editor she has worked with writers and cartoonists such as Neil Gaiman, G. Willow Wilson, Greg Rucka, Gene Luen Yang, Jim Ottaviani, and Kevin Baker.[1]

Career

Hilty grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area.[2] She studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, and received a BA in Visual Arts from Brown University.[3][4]

After college she returned to the Bay Area, where she connected with Trina Robbins, and was published in an issue of Wimmen's Comix.[2] In 1992 she created the characters Immola and the Luna Legion, the first team of lesbian superheroes, appearing in Oh..., a female-oriented comics anthology.[5][6] She produced the syndicated strip Bitter Girl, about lesbian dating, from 2001 to 2012.[1]

She was an editor for DC Comics from 1995 to 2010.[7] She began with the company's mature-readers Vertigo imprint, for which she won the 1999 International Horror Guild Award for the Vertigo anthology Flinch.[4] She switched to editing superhero titles in 2000, established the Johnny DC imprint for young readers in 2004, and in 2008 began curating original graphic novels for Vertigo.[4][8][9]

In 2011, she co-founded 5E, a New-York-based organization of independent editors.[1] The following year she co-founded Page Turner, a "boutique book agency and content producer specializing in graphic novels, illustrated content and comics-related transmedia".[10] In 2016, she became Comics and Magazine Editor for Nickelodeon.[11][12]

She is a member of the faculty for Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore,[4] and the School of Visual Arts in New York City.[3]

Her art has been exhibited at the New Museum in New York City, and the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.[3]

Personal life

Hilty is openly lesbian.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "ABOUT | JoanHilty.net". joanhilty.net. Retrieved 2017-01-30.
  2. 1 2 "An Oral History of Wimmen’s Comix Part 2 | The Comics Journal". www.tcj.com. Retrieved 2017-04-27.
  3. 1 2 3 "School of Visual Arts | SVA | New York City > Hilty Joan". www.sva.edu. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Art, Maryland Institute College of. "Joan Hilty | MICA". www.mica.edu. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
  5. ↑ "Yet Another First Gay Superhero". Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movie, TV News. 2009-11-18. Retrieved 2017-01-30.
  6. ↑ "Beek's Books - Oh... (comicbook reviews)". graphicnovels.info. Retrieved 2017-01-30.
  7. 1 2 "Geek Girl On The Street Reports: Joan Hilty On Being A Woman At DC Comics". Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movie, TV News. 2011-09-07. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
  8. ↑ "Publishing, After a Life in Publishing". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
  9. ↑ "Vertigo Announces Push to Acquire Graphic Novels". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2017-04-27.
  10. ↑ "Page Turner: Flip to the Future!". pgturn.com. Retrieved 2017-01-30.
  11. ↑ "About Us". 5E. Retrieved 2017-04-27.
  12. ↑ "NYCC '16: DARK HORSE - Classified". Newsarama. Retrieved 2017-04-27.
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