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.

Contact Jennifer de Guzman at blog@jenniferdeguzman.com

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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Reel Around My Fountain

Cover by Jason Pedersen

Hey, everyone! I wrote a story based on one of my favorite Smiths songs, “Reel Around the Fountain” for Unite and Take Over Volume Two drawn by Traci Hui. It’s being Kickstarted, so please do what you can to support it and spread the news. We have only four days to meet [...]

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Movin' on North

The news is out: I am now working at Image Comics as their PR and Marketing Coordinator. Today was my first day and it was a whirlwind.

Please note that Sarah deLaine, who previously held that title is still here — she is now the Event Coordinator and focusing on conventions, trade shows, and [...]

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An End Is a New Beginning

This is a post that I’ve been trying to write for a few days.

Friday was officially my last day at SLG Publishing, the company where I began my career in the comics industry and worked for ten years, most of them as Editor in Chief. My decade at SLG was, I suspect, like [...]

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Favorite Comics I Read in 2011

I’m always hesitant to participate in “Best of” year-end lists because I don’t ever feel like I’ve read enough to declare anything the best. I don’t get around to reading a lot of important works until well after they’re published, and this year is no different.

Instead, I’ll make a list of comics and [...]

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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 [...]