The artists featured on our wraparound cover this month represent some of the most intriguing new and underexplored talent in the comics industry to date. For more information on their work, or to purchase their books, please contact the publisher or artist.

1. Anne Timmons is currently drawing an Image Comic, GoGirl! To order: Image Comics, 1071 Batavia St., Orange, CA, 92867. Her work has also appeared in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Dignifying Science. Contact: tafrin@mac.com.

2. Leslie Sternbergh's comics and writing have appeared In Juxtapoz, The Comics Journal, Twisted Sisters, Mad, Weirdo and many others including Last Gasp's Dori Stories and the upcoming Big Book of Wild Women. She and spouse live in New York City.

3. Linda Medley is the creator of the Eisner award-winning Castle Waiting, which she now self-publishes. To order, write: Olio, P.O. Box 1012, Petaluma, CA, 94953. Her work also appeared in Dignifying Science. Contact her via E-mail: olio@pacbell.net.

4. Marie Severin started at EC Comics coloring and advanced to production and storytelling and drawing. She was active in all aspects of Marvel Comics for 30 years. She worked on Mad, Not Brand Eccch!, Crazy, Kull, Dr. Strange and The Hulk. She's still drawing and doing freelance. Look for her work in Big Book of Martyrs, Big Book of Losers and Dignifying Science. She's still very attractive.

5. Roberta Gregory is the designer for the new Bitchy Bitch animated cartoons and creator of Naughty Bits and Winging It. She's been in many anthologies such as Tits 'n' Clits, and Wimmen's Comix. Visit her website: www.robertagregory.com.

6. Diane Noomin is the creator of Didi Glitz, the bubble-haired, fishnet-clad broad from Brooklyn, and the editor of the Twisted Sisters anthologies of women cartoonists. One of the original contributors to Wimmen's Comix, and published in Arcade, Weirdo, Young Lust, Lemme Outta Here, Real Girl, True Glitz and The Nation. Contact her via E-mail: glitztogo@mindspring.com.

7. Penny Van Horn's Recipe For Disaster and Other Stories is her latest, published by Fantagraphics. Her work has appeared in Twisted Sisters, Weirdo, Zero Zero, Snake Eyes, Dirty Stories and Wimmen's Comix. Her website: www.pennyvanhorn.com.

8. Alison Bechdel has been drawing the strip Dykes To Watch Out For since 1983. Nine collections of her award-winning cartoons, including the most recent, Post-Dykes To Watch Out For have been published by Firebrand Press. She was also nominated for two Eisner awards in 2001. Her strip appears in 70 publications in North America. She lives in Vermont.

9. Gabriella Gamboa spent happy time as a member of the Puppy Toss Comics Collective, co-edited a one-shot women's anthology called On Our Butts and her work has appeared in Top Shelf, Duplex Planet and Bust. She is currently working on her first graphic novel. Her website: www.ladygg.com.

10. Molly Kiely is the creator of the Diary Of A Dominatrix and Saucy Little Tart series for Eros Comix. She recently wrote and illustrated two graphic novels for Eros: That Kind Of Girl and Tecopa Jane. Her new book, On Your Knees Boy, just came out so now she has time to build a house outside of Tucson, Arizona. Her website: www.mollykiely.com.

11. Julie Doucet started out self-publishing Dirty Plotte, and was eventually picked up by Drawn & Quarterly, who currently publish most of her other books, Lift Your Leg My Fish Is Dead, My Most Secret Desire, and My New York Diary. She won a Harvey award for Best New Talent, and recently released both The Madame Paul Affair and Long Time Relationship. To order, visit website www.drawnandquarterly.com.

12. Marian Henley has been doing her weekly strip, Maxine, for 20 years, and her work has been in Ms., Glamour, Mad and Heavy Metal. In spring of 2002, look for a collection of her work, a 20-year retrospective called Laughing Gas: Super-Ultra-Power-Packed 'Maxine! Comix' for Stokin' and Strokin' Your Engine, published by Republic of Texas Press. There's also a Maxine book that was published by The New American Library. Contact: www.maxine.net (Note: look for Marian on a waterbed in the movie True Stories!)

13. Dame Darcy just finished Meat Cake #11, published by Fantagraphics. Her Greatest Hits Vol. 2 CD is on Action Driver Records, and she's been working on Cobweb by Alan Moore. She alsodoes animation, live cabaret and acts in and writes movies. Website: www.damedarcy.com.

14. Donna Barr self-publishes The Desert Peach and Stinz. These and other fine items can be ordered at: A Fine Line Press, www.stinz.com.

15. Phoebe Gloeckner is the author of A Child's Life. Her work has also appeared in Weirdo, Twisted Sisters, Young Lust and Buzzard. Her most ambitious project to date has the working title Diary Of A Teenage Girl and is expected to be released late 2001. She won an Inkpot Award at the San Diego Eisner awards in 2000. Find out more about Phoebe at: www.ravenblond.com/pgloeckner.

16. Ariel Bordeaux is the creator of the self-published Deep Girl and the book, No Love Lost, published by Drawn & Quarterly. She's also contributed to Hate, Measles, Real Stuff, Dirty Stories and Bust magazine. Ariel lives in Seattle with her husband Rick Altergott and their over-indulged cat Buster. Contact her at: bordeaux@zgi.com.

17. Jill Thompson just won two Eisner Awards for her series Scary Godmother (Sirius Entertainment, Inc., P.O. Box 834, Dover, NJ, 07802.) She graduated from the American Academy of Art and currently lives in Chicago, where she likes to search for haunted houses. Her official website: www.lurid.com/jill/index.html.

18. Megan Kelso self-published 6 issues of Girl Hero, after winning a Xeric grant (1993). Her book collection, Queen of The Black Black, (1998), was published by Highwater Books (www.highwater.com). She's been in Dark Horse Presents, Action Girl, SPX '98, Expo 2000 and Comix 2000. Her new mini is Split Rock Montana and new book will be called Artichoke Tales. Her fantastic website is available at: www.girlhero.com.

19. M. K. Brown has been in Arcade, National Lampoon, Mother Jones, Twisted Sisters, Wimmen's Comix, Playboy, The New Yorker and was one of the 69 artists in Narrative Corpse. She also created animation for The Tracy Ullman Show. Visit "The House of MK Brown" at: www.benway.com/mkbrown/.

20. For more information about Ellen Forney, go to www.ellenforney.com, and you'll see she's an illustrator as well as a cartoonist. Her first book, Tomato, was published by Starhead Comics. I Was Seven In '75, a weekly strip, was funded by a Xeric grant and published in book form, then again under the title Monkey Food by Fantagraphics. She's been nominated for a Harvey and an Eisner award.

21. Mary Fleener started doing mini-comics in 1985, and first book was Hoodoo (1988), then Slutburger, where she developed her autobiographix style and these were collected in book form, Life of the Party (Fantagraphics) in 1994. Her current series is an Eros comic called Nipplez 'n' Tum Tum. Her comic and illustration work have been in Weirdo, Twisted Sisters, The Art Of Mickey Mouse, Grateful Dead Comix, Spin, Guitar Player, Musician, Taboo - The Art Of Tiki, and the cover to Poppy Z. Brite's Plastic Jesus. Look for her work in the upcoming Big Book Of Wild Women. Contact: fleenerwerks@home.com. You can also buy her original artwork at: www.comicartcollective.com/fleener.

22. Aline Kominsky-Crumb is the writer and artist behind Power Pak and Love That Bunch. She co-edited the original Twisted Sisters with Diane Noomin, and in the 1980s edited Weirdo. She lives in France with daughter Sophie and husband, Robert.

23. Carol Lay - over 25 years of drawing and writing pleasure. Undergrounds, mainstream and indies (Good Girls, Fantagraphics). Storyboards for movies, rock videos and animation. Illos and comics for Mattel, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, Mad, and The New Yorker. Currently writing a Wonder Woman novel for DC Comics. Saving complete sentences for that. Website: www.waylay.com.

24. Sarah Dyer is best known as the editor and driving force behind Action Girl, published by Slave Labor Graphics. Her work has appeared in Disney Adventures, on the Cartoon Network, and in Very Vicky Junior Hepcats Handbook. She shares a website with Evan Dorkin: www.houseoffun.com or contact her at: alilena@aol.com.

25. Jessica Abel is the cartoonist and illustrator best known for her series, Artbabe (Fantagraphics), and her journalistic comics, such as Radio: An Illustrated Guide. Her most recent book is a collection of early work titled Soundtrack (Fantagraphics). She lives in Brooklyn with husband, Matt Madden. For more info, check out her website: www.artbabe.com.

26. Laura Molina is currently working on a new 32-page color comic, Cihualyaomiquiz: The Jaguar, the story of the "Chicana feminist woman warrior." She's also an awesome painter. Her website: www.nakeddave.com.

27. Gabriella Bell's self-published comics, The Book of Sleep, Book of Black, Book of Insomnia and Book of Lies are available at: 3288 21st St., San Francisco, CA, 94110. Contact: gabriellabell90@yahoo.com.

28. Catherine Doherty runs a comic strip called Sister Grim in a number of gay/lez/alt newspapers and has been in Gay Comics. She has one graphic novel, Can Of Worms, (Fantagraphics), which was nominated for an Eisner this year, and is currently working on her second, a biography of a forgotten opera singer. She is also a set/production designer for film and plays banjo in an all-girl Toronto cowboy band called The Jane Waynes. Her website is: www.catherinedoherty.com and E-mail: catherine@catherinedoherty.com.

29. Barb Rausch's professional career began in 1983 with Neil The Horse, then work on Vickey Valentine, editing storyboards on the Jem animation show, Wonder Woman Annual #2, and a regular penciler for Barbie and Barbie Fashion Comics 1990-1995. She also worked in the Howard Chaykin studio. With her passing this year, the comics community lost a hard working gal, an exceptional talent and a fine human being.

30. Sabrina Jones lives in New York and was the editor of Girl Talk (Fantagraphics) for 5 issues. She just edited two issues of World War 3: Illustrated: #26, "Female Complaints" and #30, "Bitchcraft." To order WW3: P.O. Box 20777, Tompkins Square Station, NY, NY, 10009.

31. Besides showing her paintings in galleries across North America, Fiona Smyth has been published in Twisted Sisters, Juxtapoz, Heavy Metal, and Bust. After drawing 4 issues of her solo comic, Nocturnal Emissions, she started doing monthly strips in Exclaim and Vice. She's also got a piece in the recent Legal Action Comics. Her website: www.fionasmyth.com or contact: lukkie@sympatico.ca.

32. Debbie Drechsler's weekly strip in the New York Press was collected in book form by Fantagraphics (Daddy's Girl, 1996) and her most recent series, Nowhere by Drawn & Quarterly. Her work has appeared in Weirdo and Twisted Sisters 2. Daddy's Girl has been published in France, Germany and Sweden and Nowhere in Italy. To see her work -- and especially her fabulous illustration -- go to: www.debdrex.com.

33. Christine Shields has done two issues of Blue Hole, and her work can be found in Zero Zero, Bananafish, Flatter, NY Press, Screw and Scram. Her paintings have been exhibited at New Langton Arts (San Francisco), Reading Frenzy (Portland) and CBGB's Gallery (NYC). She plays a mean ukulele, a soulful guitar and loves to sing, sing, sing!

34. Jennifer Feinberg is the primary force behind Chi Comics. She self-publishes the comic Chi and is currently working on the ongoing title, Little Scrowlie. You can see her stuff at: www.chi-jen.com, or E-mail her at: jen@chi-jen.com. Or, you can contact her by more traditional means at: 5979 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, CA, 94609.

35. Mari Schaal self-publishes Estrus and has appeared in Action Girl. Order her books at her website: www.marinaomi.com. Look for her work in the upcoming Friends Of Lulu anthology.

36. Cathy Hill is the creator of Mad Raccoons, a good funny animal comic book. She is as mystified by the Furverts as the rest of us. She is currently pursuing an interest in plein air painting.

37. Mary Wilshire started in the 1970s underground comix scene as a penciler for Marvel (Barbie, Red Sonja, The New Mutants) and drew The Travel Bureau in the National Geographic's kid magazine World. She did drawings of all the wrestlers in the WWF for their licensing and merchandising and all those drawings for The Friends Of Lulu newsletter and website. Contact her at YEP! Studio, 914-762-2672.

38. Joyce Chin has worked with DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, Wildstorm, Malibu, Chaos, Electronic Arts and drawn Spider-Man, Superman, Batman, The Flash, Wonder Woman, and The Green Latern. Current project is an episode of Cobweb by Alan Moore. Contact: whippetrix@yahoo.com.

39. Fly's work has been in World War 3: Illustrated, Girl Talk, The Bradleys, Squatter Comics and book-books, like Automedia and Manic D Press. A collection of her work titled Chron!Ic!Riots!Pa!Sm! was published in 1999 by Automedia and she's currently working on a book of portraits to be released by Soft Skull in Spring 2002. Illustration work has appeared in the NY Press, Village Voice, Bikini and Ray Gun. Contact: fly@bway.net and visit her website at: www.bway.net/~fly.

40. Krystine Kryttre has been doing comics since 1984, has been in Raw, Weirdo, Sexy Stories From The World's Religions, Buzzard, Snake Eyes, Go Naked, Dori Stories and Comix 2000. Cathead comics collected her best stuff in Death Warmed Over. To order, visit: www.world.std.com/~cathead or P.O. Box 576, Hudson, MA, 01749. Her latest publication is from Last Gasp and is called The #@*! Coloring Book. Her paintings and sculpture are on display at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles (323-666-POOP).

41. Robyn Chapman was born and raised in Alaska. After high school, she moved to Georgia to pursue a sequential art degree at the Savannah College of Art and Design, and there she created Theatre of The Meek, a comic for which she received a Xeric grant. Her fantastic website can be seen at www.iceworldpress.com.

42. Renée French, the creator of Grit Bath (Fantagraphics) and the Dark Horse one-shots The Ninth Gland and Corny's Fetish, has also had work in Zero Zero, Last Gasp Comix and Comix 2000. Her latest books Marbles In My Underpants: The Renée French Collecton (240 pages, published by Oni Press) and The Soap Lady (Top Shelf) are both available now. Website: www.reneefrench.com.

43. Jen Sorensen draws a weekly alternative newspaper strip called "Slowpoke," which is now available in book form (from Alternative Press: www.indyworld.com/altcomics or 352-373-6336), thanks to Xeric grants. Check out www.slowpokecomics.com to see her first book, Slowpoke Comix #1. She's been in Dignifying Comics, Big Book of The '70s, Empty Love Stories and Action Girl.

44. Miran Kim is an illustrator that has done many, many covers, both in the literary world and comics. Poppy Z. Brite's Lost Souls, Drawing Blood, and Lost Future. She's done cover art on Hellraiser, Animal Man, Mars Attacks, The Crow, And X-Files. Interior art on The Fallen, Vampire Art Book, X-Files and others. She was featured in Juxtapoz (#5, 1995). Contact: mirank@earthlink.net.

45. After getting a degree in printmaking, Isabella Bannerman worked as a set painter and animator for MTV and Nickelodeon before turning to cartooning. Her work has been in The Funny Times, The New York Times, World War 3: Illustrated and Girl Talk. A book of her cartoons, Pacifists In Bomber Jackets, was published in 1988 by Laughlines Press. She is currently syndicated by King Features in a daily strip called Six Chix, which she shares with 5 other female cartoonists. See it at www.KingFeatures.com.

46. Jennifer Daydreamer publishes her own mini-comics and is up to issue #11 of Jennifer Daydreamer. To order, write: P.O. Box 85265, Seattle, WA, 98145-1265. She is currently working on a new 60-page story. http://www.jenniferdaydreamer.com is now up! Go visit!

47. Carol Tyler has been drawing autobiographical stories from 1983-97 for various publications such as Weirdo, Twisted Sisters, Zero Zero, and Drawn & Quarterly. Her book, The Job Thing, was published by Fantagraphics. She's currently opening a Buddhist center. Contact: inknib@cinci.infi.net.

48. Trina Robbins is the author of such books as From Girls To Grrrrlz and A Century Of Women Cartoonists. Last year she was a "guest editor" for Comic Book Artist, is currently writing for the Image series Go Girl! and still she "finds the time to look for vintage bathing suits!"

49. Kalah Allen is a self-publisher of mini-comics. Igasho and Other Stories, Jar of Pennies, Odd Jobs and Mysterious Tea Party. Has appeared in Comix 2000 (L'Association, France) and Under The Big Top (Top Shelf). She is currently working on stories for Sputnik and continuing Igasho. Look for her illustration work in the Portland Mercury column I, Anonymous. Contact: jitterbug@ureach.com or P.O.Box 2044, Portland, OR, 97208-2044.

50. Since 1987, Eileen Arnow-Levine has been creating books which she illustrates, writes and self-publishes and is now working on her 11th artists' book The House of the Man That Died. Her website: www.arnowart.com. Eileen's books are included in The Museum of Modern Art's online database and she's a member of the Small Press Center.

51. Joyce Farmer co-edited and contributed to Tits 'n' Clits #1-7 from 1972-1987, a series about women and sexuality. She's also had stories in Wimmen's Comix, Itchy Planet, Wet Satin, Naughty Bits and, most recently, Zero Zero. Right now she's working on a graphic novel about an elderly couple laughing off their troubles, and the working title is So Far, So Good. Contact her via E-mail at j.farmer@mindspring.com.

52. Diane DiMassa is a fine artist who happens to be best known for her cartoons, particularly Hothead Paisan, Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist, which is a scathing, astute, leftist, feminist piece of work. For a look, go see www.hotheadpaisan.com. Diane is currently working on an illustrated partial autobiography, is a full-time student in a Visual Communications program and works part-time as a silkscreener. She is 41.

53. Fawn Gehweiler's book is Bomb Pop Comics and Stories, available online at: http://hello.to/bombpop. She's been in Non 4, Girl Frenzy, Top Shelf On Parade and Bunny Hop #9 and #10. Contact: bombpopusa@earthlink.net.

54. Lorna Miller, originally from Glasglow, Scotland, will make her U.S. debut with Witch (Slave Labor Graphics-1-800-866-8929). Her work has also appeared in Girl Frenzy and Cheap Date. Her website: www.lornamiller.com.

55. Lee Marrs started doing comics in 1973, starting with Pudge Girl Plimp and Wimmen's Comix and her work's appeared in High Times, Heavy Metal, Batman, Heartbreakers and Wonder Woman, among others. On her website: www.leemarrs.com, you can look at her other projects such as animation and illustration.

56. Amanda Padilla self-published Bad Thoughts #1 and #2 and is currently working on #3. To order: P.O. Box 31923, San Francisco, CA, 94131. Contact: amandacomix@aol.com.

57. Carla Speed McNeil has written and drawn 21 issues of her book, Finder. She has a college degree that turned out to be almost useful. She has a deep appreciation for good food but a seriously impaired sense of direction. She has been compared to Gilbert Hernandez, Giardino and Oppenheimer. She was also nominated for an Eisner award this year in San Diego. Contact: speed@core.zot.com.

58. Ariel Schrag has three graphic novels titled Awkward, Definition, and Potential which are about her freshman, sophomore and junior years at Berkeley High School, respectively. Her new book, titled Likewise, deals with her senior year. Eventually, all four books will be united as a 737-page book. She was nominated for an Eisner award last year. All books are published by Slave Labor Graphics (www.slavelabor.com). Contact: als94@columbia.edu or 5231 Lerner Hall, New York, NY, 10027.

59. Leela Corman received a Xeric grant to do Queen's Day and you can order her other books at: 1032 Lorimer St. #1, Brooklyn, NY, 11222. Visit her website: www.glittercannon.com to see her illustration work.

60. Lea Hernandez's works include the forthcoming series Killer Princesses with writer Gail Simone (Oni Press), the just completed Rumble Girls (Image Comics) and the Texas Steampunk graphic novels, Cathedral Child and Clockwork Angels ('98, '99-Image). Lea lives in San Antonio with one husband, two kids, three dogs and one cat. Contact: www.divalea.org.