Lea Hernandez | |
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Born | March 11, 1964 |
Nationality | American |
Area(s) | Artist, Letterer |
Notable works | Killer Princesses Rumble Girls |
Lea Hernandez (born March 11, 1964) is an American comic book and webcomic creator, known primarily for working in a manga-influenced style,[1] and for doing lettering and touch-ups on manga imports.[2] She is the co-creator of Killer Princesses, written by Gail Simone and published by Oni Press; and the creator of Rumble Girls from NBM Publishing.
She did art for comics published by Marvel Comics and DC Comics: Marvel Mangaverse: Punisher (a one-shot), and Transmetropolitan (two two-page shorts). She also did art for three issues of The Hardy Boys manga-style series at Papercutz.[3]
Hernandez published several webcomics at Modern Tales and was the original editor of Girlamatic. In 2002, Hernandez created the short webcomic Near Life Experience for Modern Tales.[4]
Hernandez has written several short stories for collections of science fiction and fantasy.
She was a vice president for General Products, USA (the U.S. marketing arm of Gainax) from 1989–1990[5] and was briefly a guest editor for Wizard.[6]
Hernandez appeared in Adventures Into Digital Comics, a 2006 documentary on the comics industry.[7] She did art on eight issues of the DC Comics title Teen Titans GO![8]
On the morning of September 6, 2006, her house in Texas burned down[9] and much of her original artwork was lost in the fire. Colleagues in the comics industry responded by collecting donations for Hernandez from fans and friends in the comics industry.[10] In 2014, she married former LA Times comics syndicate and Disney Comics editor David Seidman.
Hernandez received a 1999 Eisner Award nomination for Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition.[11] In 2004, she was awarded Lulu of the Year by Friends of Lulu, a now disbanded women in comics organization, for editing at Girlamatic.[12]