Aminder Dhaliwal (born December 5, 1988) is a Canadian animator, storyboard artist, cartoonist, writer, and director. She is best known for her 2018 graphic novel ''Woman World''. Dhaliwal was born to Punjabi parents in

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, England where she grew up until the age of 11. Her family then moved to

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, Ontario where she spent the rest of her adolescence. She attended

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for animation and, in her final year, won a placement at

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as a production intern in 2011. She moved to

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and began working as a storyboard revisionist, and since 2012 has accumulated credits as a writer, director, storyboard artist and storyboard director on a number of television series, including ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. She is currently employed as a storyboard director at

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, director at

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, and story artist at

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Comics

Inspired by the

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in 2017, Dhaliwal began serializing ''Woman World'' on

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. The science fiction comic tells the story of the development of an all-woman civilization after men become extinct as a result of a birth defect. After amassing over 100,000 followers on Instagram, the strip was reworked for print and collected as a graphic novel published by

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in September 2018. The Instagram version of ''Woman World'' was nominated for a 2018

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for Outstanding Online Comic. In 2019, the graphic novel was itself nominated for a Doug Wright Spotlight Award and made the longlist of nominees for the

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. On March 27, 2019, it was announced that Dhaliwal was writing the pilot episode of an animated version of ''Woman World'' for Disney's Freeform cable network. Actress

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is to produce the proposed series.

Bibliography

Animation

References

External links

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