Vanessa Davis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Vanessa Davis

cartoonist

Date of Birth: 14-Oct-1978

Place of Birth: West Palm Beach, Florida, United States

Profession: author, comics artist, cartoonist, novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Vanessa Davis

  • Vanessa Davis is an American illustrator, humorist, and cartoonist of alternative comic books. She is best known for the autobiographical graphic novel Make Me A Woman and minicomic Spaniel Rage, published by Drawn and Quarterly.
  • Her comics have appeared in several anthologies, including Kramers Ergot, Best American Comics, Stuck in the Middle, Papercutter, and An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons and True Stories.
  • She earned a fine arts degree from the University of Florida.Davis' comics and illustrations are usually rendered in highly chromatic watercolors or in pencil.
  • The stories they tell are taken from her diary and are candidly personal, witty and self-deprecating; centering on her youth, mother, relationships with men, and Jewish identity.
  • Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Dissent, Vice, and The Jewish Daily Forward, and she is a regular contributor to Tablet Magazine.
  • In 2009, she was awarded the Maisie Kukoc Award for Comics Inspiration, and in 2017 the Terry Southern Prize for Humor for her 8-part series, Summer Hours, published in the Paris Review.

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