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Pia Guerra
Pia Guerra at the Vancouver Comicon, March 2006
NationalityCanadian
Area(s)artist, pencils
Notable works
Y: The Last Man series
AwardsEisner Award, Harvey Award, Joe Shuster Award
http://www.hellkitty.com

Pia Jasmin Guerra is a Canadian comic book artist, best known for her work as co-creator and lead penciller on the Vertigo title Y: The Last Man.[1]

Career

Guerra has worked on various independent titles since the mid-1990s, though Y: The Last Man is known as her "big break" in the comics industry.[2] She currently resides in Vancouver, Canada, and is married to comic book author and comedian Ian Boothby (Simpsons Comics).[3]

In the late 2000s, Guerra contributed to a Doctor Who comic entitled Doctor Who: The Forgotten (published by IDW Publishing and written by UK writer Tony Lee),[4] and to a Torchwood series (for Torchwood Magazine) written by Gareth David-Lloyd.

She has co-written two issues of Simpsons Comics for Bongo Comics with Ian Boothby.

Bibliography

Awards

  • 2008 Eisner Award: Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team (with inker José Marzán, Jr., for Y: The Last Man[8])

Nominations

Notes

  1. ^ "Vertigo's 'Last (Wo)Man' Standing: Pia Guerra Talks About Hit Series 'Y'". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved 2007-05-29.
  2. ^ "Pia and the Last Man Standing". http://www.comicon.com/index.html Comicon.com - the World's Largest Comicon. Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2007-05-29. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
  3. ^ "Interview with Pia". http://www.theouthousers.com The Outhouse. Retrieved 2007-05-29. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
  4. ^ Pia Guerra talks "Doctor Who: The Forgotten", Comic Book Resources, August 22, 2008
  5. ^ . The Harvey Awards http://www.harveyawards.org/previous-awards-nominees/2003-harvey-awards/. Retrieved 11 August 2013. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ^ "Pia Guerra". http://www.sequentialtart.com Sequential Tart. Retrieved 2007-05-29. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
  7. ^ "2006 Nominees and Winners". Joe Shuster Awards. Retrieved 2011-12-28.
  8. ^ "2008 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award and Other Award Winners". San Diego Comic-Con International. Retrieved 2008-07-26.
  9. ^ "2009 Hugo Award Nominations". thehugoawards.com. thehugoawards.com. 2009-03-20. Retrieved 2009-03-20.

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