Background
Melinda Gebbie was born in San Francisco.
Melinda Gebbie was born in San Francisco.
In 1977 she completed her own solo book, Fresca Zizis.
She became interested in comics in 1973, when she met writer/artist Lee Marrs at a publishers" fair. Gebbie began her career as a fine artist. She contributed her first comic strip to Wimmen"s Comix #3, the seminal all-women anthology published by Last Gasp.
She wrote and drew short stories for Wimmen"s Comix and many other anthologies, including Tits & Clits Comix, Wet Satin, and Anarchy Comics.
In 1984 she moved to England to work on the animated film adaptation of Raymond Briggs" When the Wind Blows. Following this, she worked in a variety of illustration and office jobs and continued making short stories for anthologies such as and
During this time she was briefly involved in an obscenity trial when Knockabout Comics was prosecuted by the United Kingdom"s customs agency over the importation of "pornographic" comics, including her Fresca Zizis. The verdict was that all the comics should be confiscated and burned.
Fresca Zizis was made illegal to possess in the United Kingdom. In the early 1990s, Alan Moore and Gebbie began collaborating on Lost Girls, a story in which the female protagonists of Peter and Wendy, Alice"s Adventures in Wonderland, and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz meet and share sexual stories and experiences.
Moore wrote the story, and Gebbie illustrated lieutenant The story was finished in 2006. Meanwhile, she and Moore created Cobweb, a mysterious heroine who appeared in twelve issues of the Moore-written anthology Tomorrow Stories between 1999 and 2002.
Lost Girls artist Melinda Gebbie, SuicideGirls.com, June 6, 2006 Melinda Gebbie Interview at ReadySteadyBook, September 11, 2006.