Comics « Jennifer de Guzman

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.

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 [...]

New Publishers Weekly Column

My latest Publishers Weekly Life in Comics column is up — and of course it has to do with the baby. It’s fascinating to me how the little creature has managed to wrap my whole existence — for now — around his little tiny pinkie finger. It’s necessary, of course, the result of ample oxytocin coursing [...]

Questions I’m Tired of Answering

I get a few people emailing me every year to ask me how to become a comics editor. They seem to think that it’s a line of work that is “fun” or “rewarding” or “cool,” and they want in on the glorious words-and-pictures life. They also seem to think that there’s some secret to getting a [...]