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Jennifer de Guzman is a writer and comics publishing professional living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She writes stories about sad girls, seawater, bottomless wells, airborne plagues, and horses. You can find links to some of them them in the Selected Works section or read them at her Scribd page.

What Are Possible Impossiblities?

“The Poet ought rather to chuse Impossibilities, provided they have Resemblance to the Truth, than the Possible, which are Incredible with all their Possibility.”
- Henry Fielding, quoting Aristotle in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

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Inky Flowers, Part Two

It was eleven p.m. the night before my tattoo appointment, and I was anxious. The artist hadn’t sent me his concept sketch and I was freaking out about irreversibly altering part of my body. I have holes punched here and there (earlobes, top of ear, nose, navel), but nothing so obvious and ostentatious as a [...]

Sartor Resartus

Lady Editor Fashion, Seattle Edition

Mid-length Skirts by Calvin Klein Boots by Me Too

Well, it didn’t exactly turn out like this. I decided to bring a zebra-print pencil skirt that clashed with my Missoni tights, and I wore black wedge ankle boots and a gray sweater. Wait, you can see it in this picture of Mateo wearing [...]

Life in Comics

It's the Geek Girls' World

Photo by OnceandFutureLaura. Used under a Creative Commons license.

GeekGirl Con‘s time had come. Women have had panels devoted to them here and there — with, for the most part, the same topics, the same panelists, and, alas, the same problematic moments — at behemoth geek convergences like Comic-Con International for years. Could [...]

Life in Comics

GeekGirl Con, October 8-9, Seattle

I will be attending GeekGirl Con in Seattle on October 8 and 9. On Saturday at 10 a.m., I will be on the “Comics for Breakfast” panel with Rachel Edidin from Dark Horse and Mariah Huehner from IDW and Conlan Press.

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