Gina Wynbrandt is an American comic book artist and illustrator.
Background 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.Chicagoist , "This Chicago Cartoonist's New Book Is Called 'Someone Please Have Sex With Me'" on July 1, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2018. She is the niece of comic book artist and software designer Mike Saenz.El Periódico, "Sexual fantasies with Justin Bieber" (in Spanish) on March 31, 2017. Retrieved December 27, 2018.
Career Wynbrandt was nominated for an Ignatz Award in 2015 for Promising New Talent, based on the work in her minicomic Big Pussy."Announcing the 2015 Ignatz Nominees" , Small Press Expo Her first graphic novel Someone Please Have Sex With Me was published by 2dcloud in 2016.Review of Someone Please Have Sex With Me, Los Angeles Times In 2017, she was a featured guest at the Barcelona International Comic Fair"The 35th SALÓN DEL CÓMIC DE BARCELONA counts 118,000 visitors", FICOMIC (in Spanish) and Comic Arts Brooklyn,2017 exhibitor list, Comics Art Brooklyn and in 2018 she was a featured guest at the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo.2018 exhibitor list , Chicago Alternative Comics Expo In 2023, she was nominated for her second Ignatz Award for Outstanding Minicomic for her comic You're the Center of Attention.2023 Ignatz Awards Nominations, Comics Beat In 2024, her comic Goonight Phone for The Verge was nominated for an American Society of Magazine Editors National Magazine Award."American Society of Magazine Editors Announces National Magazine Awards 2024 Nominees" ASME Media
Her work has been printed in Best American ComicsFive comics artists to watch from 2015's 'Best American Comics,' Los Angeles Times VICE Media, Lumpen, and The Believer, and shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago."Chicago Comics: 1960s to Now'" Museum of Contemporary Art
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