Early life
Guerra was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, to a Finnish mother and Chilean father. [4] At the age of 10, Guerra's cousin visited from Queens and introduced her to comics by leaving his issue of The Uncanny X-Men #129 on a coffee table in her house. After reading the comic, Guerra continued to read comics thereafter. As a self-taught artist, Guerra was always interested in art, but she planned to pursue other careers, such as medicine. [5]
In high school, Guerra attended comic conventions and began to consider pursuing a career in comics. As her plans shifted, Guerra made the decision to forgo secondary education and instead focus on pursuing a career in comics. [5]
Career
During her early career, Guerra did voice over work and worked on many different video games and video game manuals. In 1998, Guerra created storyboards for Boeing Employee's Credit Union and Microsoft Studios. [2] Before creating Y: The Last Man , Guerra contacted Brian K. Vaughan, and they arranged to meet in San Diego. [5]
Guerra's first major project was the Vertigo title Y: The Last Man , which she co-created with Brian Vaughan and pencilled for. [2] Guerra has worked on various independent titles since the mid-1990s, though Y: The Last Man is known as her "big break" in the comics industry. [6]
In 2005, Guerra worked as a penciller on Marvel's Spider-Man: Unlimited. [2] In the late 2000s, Guerra contributed to a Doctor Who comic entitled Doctor Who: The Forgotten (published by IDW Publishing and written by UK writer Tony Lee), [7] and to a Torchwood series (for Torchwood Magazine ) written by Gareth David-Lloyd. She has co-written two issues of Simpsons Comics for Bongo Comics with Ian Boothby. [2]
From 2013 to 2015, she worked on five comic book covers, including a variant cover for Black Canary. [2]
In the late 2010s, Guerra turned to editorial cartooning. She has done cartoons for the online page The Nib , The Washington Post and The New Yorker . [8] Following the February 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, she posted a widely shared cartoon on Twitter depicting school staffer Aaron Feis, who had died protecting students, being led in the afterlife to a hero's welcome from those who had been killed. Guerra told The Washington Post that the cartoon was a direct response to her feelings of helplessness in the face of yet another mass shooting. [9] [10]
In April 2022, Guerra was reported among the contributors to Operation USA's benefit anthology book, Comics for Ukraine: Sunflower Seeds, a project spearheaded by IDW Publishing Special Projects Editor Scott Dunbier, whose profits would be donated to relief efforts for Ukrainian refugees resulting from the February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. [11]
Guerra was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in the category Illustrated Reporting and Commentary in 2023
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