About.
Marian Henley is a cartoonist, artist, and author whose work has appeared since 1981 in the Washington Post, Funny Times, Austin Chronicle, LA Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, Dallas Morning News, Ms, MAD, newsletters for Hawaiian polygamists, recovery books for renegade Scientologists, funny sex books from the Kinsey Institute, and, yes, we had better stop right there.
Her work has been translated for foreign publication into Russian, Swedish, Italian, and Spanish. She lives in Austin, Texas.
Photo: Elle Schuster
Greatest Accomplishment.
At the end of August 2004, I flew to Vladivostok, Russia to meet an eighteen-month-old boy named Igor. He was pale and tiny, only eighteen pounds.
Six months later, I was back in Vladivostok in front of a judge and prosecutor, promising them that, if allowed to adopt Igor, I would not keep him in a dungeon.
Six months after that, back in Nashville and nearing a state of clinical exhaustion, I decided that running around after a toddler and adjusting to domestic life after decades of total freedom as an artist wasn't nearly enough to do. So I began to write and draw my book THE SHINIEST JEWEL, which tells the story of how - finally - I came to be William Igor's besotted if befuddled mother.
Featured Works.
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Maxine is a ponytailed pundit who, as one editor observed, "always has her mouth open." Maxine offers an opinion on everything that matters most: love, religion, politics, philosophy, and of course, bad hair.
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Laughing Gas is a collection of Marian Henley's Maxine!, a weekly comic strip in syndication since 1981.
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A moving graphic memoir that poignantly recounts Marian Henley's trials and tribulations in her late 40s: adopting a baby from Russia, deciding whether to marry her younger boyfriend, and coping with her elderly father's illness.
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Pucker Up! is a cheeky, irreverent, funny, and occasionally poignant guide for women on aging well.
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This moving graphic memoir centers on the difficult conversation a mother has with her son about her past experiences of male violence.
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