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About MariNaomi
- MariNaomi (born 1973) is an American graphic artist and cartoonist.
- She founded and publishes three online databases of cartoonists: the Cartoonists of Color Database, the Queer Cartoonists Database, and the Disabled Cartoonists Database.
- The opt-in per creator database Queer Cartoonists contains 775 entries as of May 2018, and has been reported to be helpful in the professional careers of upcoming cartoonists.MariNaomi's has been drawing comics since 1997, starting out as a zine creator.
- Her comics are usually autobiographical.
- She talks about the search for her roots, her status as a mixed-race queer woman, as well as her feminism.
- Her article "Writing People of Color" discusses how people of color should approach writing about people from a race that is not their own.
- MariNaomi stated "I feel like race is such a sensitive issue that I wanted feedback and I wanted to know how better to do it and to share that information.".MariNaomi wrote an article It Happened to Me: I Was Sexually Harassed Onstage at a Comic Convention Panel for XOJane in 2013 describing her experience of being harassed on stage as a panelist at a comics convention.
- She did not name her harasser, but Scott Lobdell later came forward and issued a public apology for his actions.
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