Lee Marrs
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Lee Marrs is an American comic book writer. She is best known for her comic book series, The Further Fattening Adventures of Pudge, Girl Blimp, which lasted from 1973 to 1978.
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[edit] Work
[edit] Underground comics
Marrs was a frequent contributor to underground comics and one of the “founding mommies” of the Wimmen’s Comix collective. She provided stories for Wet Satin, Manhunt, El Perfecto and Gates of Heaven. Her parodies often substituted lesbians in place of heterosexual figures – in the long-running Gay Comics.
As one of Mike Friedrich’s Star*Reach regulars, she expanded her writing and art style to include serious fantasy fiction in “Stark’s Quest” (1977-79), a study in ESP, politics, and social engineering. From this body of work, “Waters of Requital” (1977) is especially powerful. She created short futuristic graphic tales for Heavy Metal magazine, Epics Illustrated and Imagine magazine.
[edit] Mainstream comics
Marrs had a mainstream comics career at the same time - one of the few comic book creators to do so. She was introduced to the DC editor, Joe Orlando by Tex Blaisdell, an artist she had worked for on Prince Valiant and Lil’ Orphan Annie. After a start with DC’s Plop, Weird Mystery and House of Secrets, she created “Crazy Lady” (1975), a series about growing up female for Marvel’s Crazy magazine. But most of her mainstream comics work was as a writer, in Wonder Woman : Annual 1989, Viking Glory: the Viking Prince (1991), and Zatanna: Come Together (1993).
She also wrote Dark Horse’s series Indiana Jones and the Arms of Gold (1994) and Indiana Jones and the Iron Phoenix (1995), stories drawn by Leo Duranona. For Blackthorne Publishing, she created Pre-Teen Dirty-Gene Kung Fu Kangaroos, a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles parody.
[edit] Animation
Marrs has had another career, that of an animation director. An Emmy Award-winning art director, she has run Lee Marrs Artwork, a digital design & animation company for many years. She worked in 2D digital animation in the early 1980s, Her clients have included Disney/ABC, Apple Computer, IBM, Time Warner Inc., Children's Television Workshop, Nickelodeon, Electronic Arts, and MTV.
