Denise Dorrance
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Denise Dorrance is an American-born cartoonist and illustrator who publishes under the name Dorrance.
Born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, she moved to New York in her early twenties where she worked in the fashion department of Cosmopolitan magazine, later moved into photography, and eventually ran Magnum Photos corporate photography division. In 1992 she moved to London and, in spite of herself, began a successful career as a cartoonist and book illustrator.
In 2013 a collection of her cartoons was published by Idlewild, It's All About Mimi.[1] Mimi is the story of a woman trying to balance life as a fashionista and a mother—and considering Mimi's desire for minimalism and all things chic, it doesn't come naturally!
Her sharply ironic work appears regularly in magazines and newspapers such as The Spectator, Red, The Sunday Times and others. 'Mimi by Dorrance' ran as a weekly humorous cartoon for The Mail on Sunday's "You" magazine, and she illustrated a weekly syndicated column for News Life Media in Australia.
A range of Dorrance greeting cards is published worldwide by UK Greetings and Mint publishing.
Her first graphic novel, Polar Vortex (2024), is published by New River in the UK[2] and by The Experiment in the US.[3] It captures the grief, nostalgia, and chaos of traveling home to care for an elderly parent in crisis and was selected at one of Oprah Daily's "12 Picture-Perfect Grown-up Graphic Novels".[4]
Dorrance is married to documentary filmmaker Paul Yule, with whom she has a son.
Books[edit]
- Fifty is not a Four-Letter Word (2007) by Linda Kelsey - Illustrator
- A Red Dress, and Other Poems (2008) by Liz Cowley - Illustrator
- Single Mother on the Verge (2009) by Maria Roberts - Illustrator
- The Virginia Monologues (2009) by Virginia Ironside - Illustrator
- Talking about Jane Austen in Baghdad (2010) by Bee Rowlatt & May Witwit - Illustrator
- The Summer Season (2011) by Julia Williams - Illustrator
- Women of a Dangerous Age (2012) by Fanny Blake - Illustrator
- Civil Society at the Crossroads (2012) NGO comic strip with N.D. Mazin - Illustrator
- It's All About Mimi (2013) by Dorrance
- Worry With Mother (2016) by Francesca Hornak - Illustrator
- Manners - A Modern Field Guide (2021) by Kay Plunkett-Hogge & Deborah Robertson - Illustrator
- Polar Vortex (2024) by Denise Dorrance
References[edit]
- ^ https://search.worldcat.org/title/1023148264?oclcNum=1023148264
- ^ "Polar Vortex".
- ^ "Polar Vortex". 11 October 2023.
- ^ "12 Picture-Perfect Grown-up Graphic Novels". 21 December 2023.
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