Sarah Dyer is an American comic book writer and artist with roots in the zine movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s.
In 1998, Action Girl was awarded with the "Lulu of the Year" award of Friends of Lulu.[1]
Early life
Dyer was born in Louisiana,[2] went to college in Gainesville, Florida and then moved to New York City. She showed an early interest in self-publishing and the DIY philosophy by self-publishing her own zines and making her own clothes. At the age of 10, she published the "family newspaper" with comics in it.
Career
Zines
Dyer's first work was a small publication called The Silhouette.[3] While in school in Gainesville, Florida in 1988, she worked on the No Idea fanzine with Var Thelin.[4] Unsatisfied with not getting credit for her work to date, Dyer created Mad Planet as her first solo work, and started collecting female zine work.[3] This collection grew into a project in 1992, when Dyer created and began distributing the Action Girl Newsletter. This was a review zine, listing zines and mini-comics created by female writers and artists.[4]
In an interview, Dyer described the ideal audience of works such as Xena as "post-feminist women and girls." Dyer donated these zines, accumulated from reviewing for the Action Girl Newsletter, to Duke University, where it formed the core of their Zine Collections[5] at the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.[3]
Comic books
Her first comic book credit was for coloring the cover for Pirate Corp$ #5 (December 1992).[6] In October 1994, Dyer launched the all-female comics anthology Action Girl Comics,[6] which ran for a total of 19 issues and showcased comics and mini-comics by female artists and writers, as well as Dyer's own Action Girl series, which featured all-female characters and depicted the world from the viewpoint of a woman. This anthology has black and white contents, while also has colorful covers. In addition to her work with comics, Dyer has self-published manuals and articles on topics ranging from zine publishing to cooking to making clothing, all firmly rooted in DIY philosophy.
Dyer worked with Dorkin on the pilot episode for Welcome to Eltingville in 2002. The couple also wrote some episodes of the Superman: The Animated Series, such as the episode "Live Wire", which introduced a new character of the same name. The pair contributed to the script of the 2006 English-language version of the anime Shin Chan, which ran for six episodes.
Personal life
Dyer is married to fellow comics writer/artist Evan Dorkin with whom she has a daughter named Emily.[9]
^"Toyzilla Interviews Evan Dorkin & Sarah Dyer". Toyzilla. 2000. Archived from the original on June 30, 2016. I got to know a few bands and band members...and eventually was asked to do the art for an anthology album by the guys from Bim Skala Bim. Eventually I did a few more, and when I met Sarah we both worked on them. We've done over a dozen
