Jenny Frison is an American comic book

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. Her interest in comics began with a

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storybook she enjoyed as a young girl. She majored in illustration at

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before attending

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of Art.Wickline, Dan (February 2015), "These Women Have It Covered" ''

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Magazine'' #15.

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. Retrieved July 27, 2016 During school, she decided she wanted to focus on cover art and quit before her third year to teach herself. She met writer

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, who asked her to draw a cover for '' Hack/Slash'' after he looked at her website. The two became friends, and they now share a work space at Four Star Studios in

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. Retrieved July 15, 2016 Her artistic process starts with a pencil sketch followed by a tonal drawing on gray paper. She colors the image in

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.Josh (August 8, 2012),
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. Retrieved July 23, 2016 She was nominated for "Best Cover Artist" in the 2013 and 2015

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. Between 2015 and 2017, Frison drew the main covers for ''Clean Room'', a series written by

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and published by Vertigo Comics. During the DC Rebirth era, she has drawn variant covers for almost all Wonder Woman issues from #9 (October 2016) through #61 (January 2019) as well as covers for tie-in/crossover issues.

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