Andrea Natalie
Andrea Natalie (born 1958) is an American cartoonist known for the Stonewall Riots collections and for founding the Lesbian Cartoonists' Network. She grew up in Arizona, studied at Cornell University in New York, and later worked in Los Angeles as a waitress, cab driver, and janitor. At 22 she moved to New York City, came out as a lesbian, and joined radical feminist politics. She served as the media representative for Sonia Johnson's presidential campaign and ran a lesbian social club called Women About.
Natalie started making comics in 1989, using a single-panel style. She published three Stonewall Riots collections, including The Night Audrey's Vibrator Spoke and Rubyfruit Mountain. Her cartoons appeared in many gay and lesbian newspapers across the United States and often covered politics, feminism, and queer culture in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Her work was well received by feminist presses, and she was praised by fellow cartoonists such as Alison Bechdel, Roz Warren, and Kris Kovick.
To help other queer feminist artists, she founded the Lesbian Cartoonists' Network, a free quarterly newsletter that offered publishing tips and information on supplies. She recruited members by reaching out to obscure lesbian papers, mainstream cartoonists, and by posting notices in about 500 queer papers. The network helped many artists feel more visible and supported.
As a child, Natalie was inspired by Charles Addams and Edward Gorey. Her feminist beliefs came from her mother, who introduced her to Betty Friedan. Gary Larson’s single-panel humor influenced her style, and she admired Alison Bechdel. In earlier years she worked as a waitress and even danced at a topless bar to earn money while pursuing cartoons. She later considered nursing school as another option. She has lived with a partner, whose name she has not publicly shared.
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