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Liz Greenfield is a Dutch-born webcartoonist living in
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. Best known for writing the webcomic ''Stuff Sucks'', set in her birthplace of Amsterdam, Greenfield also wrote the webcomics ''Steak and Kidney Punch'' and ''Swallow''.


Career

Born in Amsterdam from one Dutch and one US parent, Liz Greenfield studied animation at the
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in Rotterdam. Greenfield began publishing her webcomic ''Stuff Sucks'' weekly in December 2004. ''Stuff Sucks'' was one of few story-focused Dutch
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of its time, as Greenfield's contemporaries predominantly drew simple comedic
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s. ''Stuff Sucks'' presents the experiences of a group of eccentric friends in Amsterdam, and a fish named "Binky". Greenfield's website got over 8,000 visitors per day in 2006, and sold print copies and t-shirts on a webshop. After running for two and a half years, ''Stuff Sucks'' was eventually printed as a set of six CD-sleeve-sized issues. After moving to Manchester, Greenfield wrote the commissioned webcomic ''Steak and Kidney Punch''. This story, about a young girl and her pre-teen
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friend, was made available on MySpace Dark Horse Presents, the
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' online spotlight for new talent. In an interview with ''
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'', Greenfield stated that after ''Stuff Sucks'', she was interested in writing "subject matter less trivial than music snobbery and petty crime." Greenfield started a new webcomic in the early 2010s, named ''Swallow'', about a young woman who accidentally swallows her mobile phone in her sleep and finds that all its alerts are projected directly into her brain.


Reception

Greenfield won a Clickburg Webcomic Award for ''Stuff Sucks'' in 2006, in the story category. The jury stated that Greenfield "charms her readers with pleasant characters and a streamlined drawing style." In a review on ''Comix Talk'', ''Stuff Sucks'' was compared with the works of fellow webcomic creators
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,
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, and Drew Weing, being described as "slick, stylistic, and with snazzy monochromatic colouring." ''Comix Talk'' went on to praise the webcomic, calling it "a sharp, engaging fiction that grabs you from the get-go and leaves you begging for more the moment your eyes scan the latest weekly offering’s final panel."


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Greenfield, Liz Dutch emigrants to England Living people Dutch comics artists Dutch female comics artists Dutch webcomic creators Willem de Kooning Academy alumni 1987 births