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The Gibbs Sisters (Shawnee Gibbs and Shawnelle Gibbs) and MariNaomi are accomplished Los Angeles-area artists whose work and career stories will appeal to anyone curious about graphic narratives, the people who make them, and the challenges of making your own way in comics and media.
The Gibbs Sisters are an award-winning writing, producing, and animation team. They are the creators of the award-winning animated short, Ravishing Raspberry, the popular online animated series Adopted by Aliens and Old Ladies Driving, the YA comic book series Fashion Forward, and the Tribeca-funded short, Sule and the Case of the Tiny Sparks. Their other credits include Step It Up and Dance and individual credits for Top Chef, Project Runway, X-Factor, The Ultimate Fighter, National Geographic's Wicked Tuna, and contributions to Disney’s Emmy-winning sitcom, Wizards of Waverly Place. They are currently working on the comic book The Invention of E.J. Whitaker.
MariNaomi is the author and illustrator of the SPACE Prize-winning graphic memoir Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Resume, Ages 0 to 22 (Harper Perennial, 2011), the Eisner-nominated Dragon's Breath and Other True Stories (2D Cloud/Uncivilized Books, 2014), the upcoming Turning Japanese (2D Cloud, 2016), and the self-published Estrus Comics (1998 to 2009). Her work has been featured on The Rumpus, The Weeklings, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.