Ariel Bordeaux
Ariel Bordeaux is an American alternative cartoonist, painter, and writer. She is known for the confessional autobiographical minicomics series Deep Girl and the two-person title Raisin Pie.
Life and career
Bordeaux graduated from the School of the [Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts] in 1991.Bordeaux self-published five issues of the Deep Girl minicomic during the years 1993 to 1995.
In the mid-1990s, Bordeaux illustrated stories in Dennis Eichhorn's Real Stuff series, published by Fantagraphics. Later in the decade, she also contributed stories to anthologies like Aeon Publications's On Our Butts; Sarah Dyer's Action Girl Comics; Peter Bagge's Hate; Fantagraphics' Dirty Stories, Spicecapades, and Measles; and DC's Bizarro Comics.
Bordeaux and Deep Girl were nominated for the 1997 Kimberly Yale Award for Best New Talent. That same year, Drawn & Quarterly published her romance graphic novel No Love Lost.
Bordeaux served on the 2003 Ignatz Award jury.
In the 2000s, in addition to Raisin Pie, she contributed work to a number of anthologies, including Alternative Comics' zombie anthology Bogus Dead, Friends of Lulu's Broad Appeal, the middle school-stories anthology Stuck in the Middle: 17 Comics from an Unpleasant Age, and the Center for [Cartoon Studies]' The Cartoon Crier.
In 2012, Bordeaux received her MFA from the Center for Cartoon Studies. She currently works as a Special Collections Associate at Rhode [Island School of Design].