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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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April Publishers Weekly Column

My latest Life in Comics column is up at Publishers Weekly. It’s about what happens when Team Comics turns into Angry Mob Comics.

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March Life in Comics

My new Life in Comics column is up. It explores the risks of depending on personality to drive your business.

Coincidentally, there is a profile of  Tokyopop founder Stu Levy by Calvin Reid in the same issue of Comics Week. I’d like to unpack his claim that “There was no such thing as original English [...]

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September’s Life in Comics

This month’s Life in Comics column at Publishers Weekly is a little more revealing than I usually write these columns to be. It’s about money. And about the difficult choices I have had to make to work in comics. I’ve been avoiding the topic because not only is it a vulnerable position to be in, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]