About

Jennifer de Guzman is a writer and comics editor 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.

She also writes "Life in Comics," a monthly column for Publishers Weekly Comics Week, and collaborates on "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now," a comics column on Robot 6, with her husband, artist Brian Belew.

Portrait by Brian Belew.

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

August Life in Comics

My latest Life in Comics column is up at Publishers Weekly. This one is about the first graphic novel I ever read, The Picture Bible.

What’s strange is that in re-reading my favorite chapter in the book — the one about Esther — I did not find a panel I clearly remember. The panel pictured Vashti and [...]

Comic-Con Panels

My latest Life in Comics is up at Publishers Weekly!

I did something for Comic-Con that I haven’t done in a long time: I made note of those I’d like to attend. Because of baby-imposed limitations, I probably won’t get to some of those that will require standing in line for long periods of time, but we’ll [...]

New Life in Comics

My new Life in Comics Column is up at Publishers Weekly. It’s about how women and girls are treated in the comics community.

When I turned it in, I was a little concerned that I had struck too strident a tone and was being too harsh or unfair. But then I read the comments on this interview [...]

New Publishers Weekly Column

My latest Life in Comics column is up at Publishers Weekly’s website. It’s about being a judge for the San Jose library’s graphic novel contest. I was a judge in the children’s category, and I had a great time reading the submissions. Today, I attended the awards ceremony. The comic I mention as my favorite in [...]

New Life in Comics

My latest Life in Comics column for Publishers Weekly is up. It’s called “Life and Death and Life Again in Comics,” taking a look at the dead-and-resurrected god archetype in [...]