Ariel Bordeaux is an

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, painter, and writer. She is known for the confessional autobiographical

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series ''Deep Girl'' and the two-person title (with her husband

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) ''

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''.

Life and career

Bordeaux graduated from the

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in 1991.Bordeaux entry
LinkedIn. Accessed Sept. 20, 2018. Bordeaux self-published five issues of the ''Deep Girl''

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during the years 1993 to 1995. (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

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's ''Real Stuff'' series, published by

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. Later in the decade, she also contributed stories to anthologies like Aeon Publications's ''On Our Butts''; Sarah Dyer's ''

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'';

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's ''

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''; 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,

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published her

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''No Love Lost''. Bordeaux served on the 2003

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jury. In the 2000s, in addition to ''

'', she contributed work to a number of anthologies, including

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anthology ''Bogus Dead'' (2002), Friends of Lulu's ''Broad Appeal'' (2003), the

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-stories anthology ''Stuck in the Middle: 17 Comics from an Unpleasant Age'' ( Viking Juvenile, 2007), and the

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Center for Cartoon Studies website (2013). She currently works as a Special Collections Associate at

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Personal life

Bordeaux is married to fellow cartoonist

Rick Altergott Rick Altergott (born 1961)"Artists,"
''Raw, Boiled, and Cooked: ...

Bibliography

* ''Deep Girl'' (5 issues, self-published, Mar. 1993–Summer 1995) * ''Ink Geek Comics'' (

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, self-published, Nov. 1993) — with

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* ''No Love Lost'' (

, 1997) * ''

'' (5 issues, Fantagraphics, Oct. 2002–July 2007) — with

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''Raw, Boiled, and Cooked: ...

* ''Henparty'' (1 issue, self-published, 2006) * ''The Complete Deep Girl'' (Paper Rocket Minicomics, 2013)

References

Notes

Sources consulted

* * * Sullivan, Darcy. "Ariel Bordeaux," ''The Comics Journal'' #205 (June 1998), pp. 77–78. * "Young Cartoonists Roundtable, Seattle," ''The Comics Journal'' #188 (July 1996), pp. 125–134.

External links

* * Nick M
"...ariel bordeaux finds happiness... a comix Q & A,"
The Subversive Garden (October 15, 2007).

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