Ariel Bordeaux

Ariel Bordeaux
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Cartoonist, Artist
Notable works
Deep Girl
Raisin Pie
Spouse(s)Rick Altergott
https://www.arielbcomics.com/

Ariel Bordeaux is an American alternative cartoonist, painter, and writer.[1] She is known for the confessional autobiographical minicomics series Deep Girl and the two-person title (with her husband Rick Altergott) Raisin Pie.

Life and career

Bordeaux graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts in 1991.[1]

Bordeaux self-published five issues of the Deep Girl minicomic during the years 1993 to 1995.[2] (Paper Rocket Minicomics collected all five issues in a book called The Complete Deep Girl in 2013.)

In the mid-1990s, Bordeaux illustrated stories in Dennis Eichhorn's Real Stuff series, published by Fantagraphics. Later in the decade, she also contributed stories to anthologies like Aeon Publications's On Our Butts; Sarah Dyer's Action Girl Comics; Peter Bagge's Hate; Fantagraphics' Dirty Stories, Spicecapades, and Measles; and DC's Bizarro Comics.

Bordeaux and Deep Girl were nominated for the 1997 Kimberly Yale Award for Best New Talent (part of the Lulu Awards). That same year, Drawn & Quarterly published her romance graphic novel No Love Lost.[3]

Bordeaux served on the 2003 Ignatz Award jury.

In the 2000s, in addition to Raisin Pie, she contributed work to a number of anthologies, including Alternative Comics' zombie anthology Bogus Dead (2002), Friends of Lulu's Broad Appeal (2003), the middle school-stories anthology Stuck in the Middle: 17 Comics from an Unpleasant Age (Viking Juvenile, 2007), and the Center for Cartoon Studies' The Cartoon Crier (2012).

In 2012, Bordeaux received her MFA from the Center for Cartoon Studies.[4] She currently works as a Special Collections Associate at Rhode Island School of Design.[1]

Personal life

Bordeaux is married to fellow cartoonist Rick Altergott.

Bibliography

  • Deep Girl (5 issues, self-published, Mar. 1993–Summer 1995)
  • Ink Geek Comics (one-shot, self-published, Nov. 1993) — with Adrian Tomine
  • No Love Lost (Drawn & Quarterly, 1997) ISBN 9781896597089
  • Raisin Pie (5 issues, Fantagraphics, Oct. 2002–July 2007) — with Rick Altergott
  • Henparty (1 issue, self-published, 2006)
  • The Complete Deep Girl (Paper Rocket Minicomics, 2013)

References

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Bordeaux entry, LinkedIn. Accessed Sept. 20, 2018.
  2. ^ Stephenson, Chad. "Deep Girl Makes Leap from Minis," The Comics Journal #179 (Aug. 1995), pp. 22-23.
  3. ^ Brayshaw, Christopher. "No Love Lost: Ariel Bordeaux," The Comics Journal #195 (Apr. 1997), p. 60.
  4. ^ "Visiting Artist: ARIEL BORDEAUX," Center for Cartoon Studies website (2013).

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