Career
Born in Stockton, California, Medley now lives in Portland, Oregon. Before embarking on, Medley worked in the comics industry as a penciller, inker, painter, colorist, and sculptor. Her pencilling work includes stints on District of Columbia Comics" Justice League America (1991) and Doom Patrol (1993), as well as the Galactic Girl Guides for Tundra Press.
As a colorist, Medley worked for Image Comics in 1994–1995, most consistently on Deathblow.
She colored District of Columbia"s Batman and Robin Adventures for two years spanning 1995–1997. A freelance illustrator since 1985, Medley has illustrated children"s books for Putnam, Grosset & Dunlap, Houghton-Mifflin, and Western Publishing.
Her paintings have appeared on the covers of Paradox Press"s Family Manitoba, Howard Cruse"s Stuck Rubber Baby, and TSR, Incorporated."s Dragon magazine, to name just a few. Tells the story of an isolated, abandoned castle and its eccentric inhabitants.
Medley illustrates in a style reminiscent of the work of Arthur Rackham and William Heath Robinson.
Intending to do her own take on some of Grimm"s fairy tales, Medley found herself most interested in the unexplained pasts — and their often unresolved fates — of the tales" background characters. The first publication was: The Curse of Brambly Hedge, which was self-published by Medley with a 1996 grant from the Xeric Foundation. Medley self-published seven issues of an ongoing series in 1997-1998.
In 1999, Medley self-published a hiatus issue.
Jeff Smith"s Cartoon Books started publishing (volume two. 4 issues) in 2000. In 2001, Medley went back to self-publishing and put out five more issues of the title.
In 2006, Fantagraphics Books began publishing, and as of April 2009, fifteen new issues have been published by them. Medley is currently working on a series of nine graphic novels based on L. Frank Baum"s Wizard of Oz books
