Amanda Lafrenais is queer jack-of-all-trades comic artist - born in Texas, now living in Chicago - with over a decade of experience under her belt spanning writing, illustrating, editing, marketing, prepress, video editing, animation, sewing, sculpting... even making terrifying puppets. Her inspirations from manga and animation are very obvious, and she’s a useless repository for Sonic the Hedgehog trivia. Amanda is currently creating the upcoming 2023 Iron Circus graphic novel “Spiral Guardian: Starry Knight.” Her expanded resume includes original comics for the Smut Peddler series, tones on three Adventure Time graphic novels, Broken Telephone by Ryan Estrada, and colorist work for Scholastic/Graphix. Not to mention her own dusty ancient webcomic, Love Me Nice. She just wants to make a lot of cute gay stories and draw people crying big sloppy Ghibli tears.