Career
Her comics combined exaggerated fantasy and ribald humor with documentation of her life in the Mission District of San Francisco, California. Seda was originally a painter and ceramics artist, graduating from in Illinois State University with a Bachelor of Arts in art To pursue her interest in comics, she took a job as a bookkeeper at the San Francisco publisher Last Gasp.
Her first published comics work appeared in Robert Crumb"s anthology magazine Weirdo in 1981.
She was subsequently published in Wimmen"s Comix, San Francisco Comic Book, Viper, Yellow Silk, Prime Cuts, Cannibal Romance, Weird Smut Comix, Tits & Clits, and her solo book Lonely Nights Comics (which was banned in England upon its release). A heavy smoker who suffered from emphysema, she may also have contracted silicosis from her ceramics materials.
Seda died at age 37 from respiratory failure after catching the flu. (Ironically, Seda occasionally used the pen name Sylvia Silicosis)
Her work has been collected in the book Dori Stories (), which also includes memorial tributes, including the story "Dori Bangs" by Bruce Sterling, which imagines a future marriage between her and music critic Lester Bangs (whom she never met).
In 1988, Last Gasp established the.
The first recipient was Carol Tyler. After Seda"s death, conflict arose over who owned the rights to reproduce her work. Due to the sexual nature of Seda"s work, her mother did not wish to see Seda"s writing in print again, and refused the right to publish lieutenant
The will was witnessed and signed by Seda, Krystine Kryttre, and Donohue.
Seda"s friends were able to successfully file the will in 1991, leaving Donohue full ownership of her work.
