Personal « 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.

Five Things That Are Tough to Convince a Six-Month-Old Of

1. Strained peas are the most delicious food you will ever eat.

2. Taking a nap really is in your own best interest.

3. Screaming is not the best method of communication.

4. Mom and Dad’s hands are not teething rings.

5. The kitty is not a [...]

Embarrassing Convention Moments

For the first time in eight years, I won’t be working at Comic-Con. I’ll be there, though, experiencing the convention on the other side of the table. (And not appearing in the background of pictures people take of other people at the booth.) The hotel and flights are booked, and Brian and I are figuring out [...]

Anniversary

Brian and I forgot it was our anniversary when we woke up this morning. Life sort of got in the way of remembering. We’d been out the night before at a San Jose Giants game. (They’re a Giants minor league team, and their stadium has the best churros in the world.) I woke up first, fed [...]

Memory of Taste: Sarciado

I’ve been a vegetarian for fifteen years, and I don’t miss meat at all. One thing I do miss, however, is eating dishes from my childhood. Having Mateo has made me think about being a kid a lot more (though, like everyone, I always have my memories from childhood at the back of my mind), and [...]

Auto Draft

At The New Yorker, Laura Miller reviews The Hunger Games, a series of young adult novels set in a society in which teenagers are annually drafted to take part in a gladiator-like contest. But more broadly, Miller explores the genre of dystopian fiction and its appeal to teenagers. She attributes it partially to teenagers’ ability to [...]