Ariel Bordeaux is an
American alternative cartoonist
A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and ...
, painter, and writer.
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.
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Bordeaux self-published five issues of the ''Deep Girl''
minicomic 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
Dennis Eichhorn's ''Real Stuff'' series, published by
Fantagraphics. Later in the decade, she also contributed stories to anthologies like
Aeon Publications
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'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
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''.
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''.
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.
"Visiting Artist: ARIEL BORDEAUX,"
Center for Cartoon Studies website (2013). She currently works as a Special Collections Associate at Rhode Island School of Design.
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
One shot may refer to:
Film and television
* One-shot film, a feature film shot in one long take with no edits, or manufactured to look like so
* ''One Shot'' (2005 film), a Sri Lankan action film directed by Ranjan Ramanayake
* ''One Shot'' (2 ...
, self-published, Nov. 1993) — with Adrian Tomine
* ''No Love Lost'' ( Drawn & Quarterly, 1997)
* '' 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
Sources consulted
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* 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).
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American women cartoonists
Alternative cartoonists
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts alumni
American cartoonists
21st-century American women
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