Career
She is best known as the author and illustrator (or, as Halliday herself terms it, "the chief primatologist") of the long-running zine The East Village Inky. The zine got its name from Halliday"s living in New York City"s East Village, and "Inky" being the nickname of her then-infant daughter. Her first graphic novel, Peanut, was published in December 2012 and was positively reviewed by the New York Times.
Initially named "Anne", Halliday was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on March 29, 1965.
She has no siblings. She attended Park Tudor School and Northwestern University, where she obtained a degree in theater performance. After graduating, she joined the Neo-Futurists, an experimental theater troupe in Chicago.
She participates yearly in the Coney Island Mermaid Parade.