| Gina Wynbrandt | |
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 Gina Wynbrandt at the 35th Barcelona International Comic Fair in 2017 | |
| Born | 1990 (age 33–34) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist |
Notable works | Someone Please Have Sex With Me |
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Gina Wynbrandt is an American comic book artist and illustrator.
Wynbrandt was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1990. She is a graduate of Walter Payton College Prep and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. [1] She is the niece of comic book artist and software designer Mike Saenz. [2]
Wynbrandt was nominated for an Ignatz Award in 2015 for Promising New Talent, based on the work in her minicomic Big Pussy. [3] Her first graphic novel Someone Please Have Sex With Me was published by 2dcloud in 2016. [4] In 2017, she was a featured guest at the Barcelona International Comic Fair [5] and Comic Arts Brooklyn, [6] and in 2018 she was a featured guest at the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo. [7] In 2023, she was nominated for her second Ignatz Award for Outstanding Minicomic for her comic You're the Center of Attention. [8] In 2024, her comic Goonight Phone for The Verge was nominated for an American Society of Magazine Editors National Magazine Award. [9]
Her work has been printed in Best American Comics [10] VICE Media, Lumpen , and The Believer , and shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. [11]
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