Lauren Weinstein (born 1975) is an American

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artist and illustrator. Her first comics appeared as syndicated strips in the ''

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'' and

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, a website aimed at teenagers. Weinstein was one of a number of artists who graduated from

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and moved to New York City in the late 1990s, among them Patrick Smith of ''Vector Park'' and Dan Nadel of ''The Ganzfeld''. Her first solo comic, the

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award-winning"Xeric Foundation Comic Book Self-Publishing Grants for 2002"
Retrieved June 25, 2011. ''Inside Vineyland'', was published in 2003. Her collection ''Girl Stories'', which originated as a series of short

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s, was published by Henry Holt in 2006. Her work has appeared in ''

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: An Anthology of Graphic Fiction'', ''

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'', and ''The Graphic Canon''. In 2015 her five-part webcomic, ''Carriers'', about dealing with the discovery that she and her husband are carriers of the gene that causes

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, won a Gold Medal from The

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. She is Jewish. Weinstein is also the lead singer of the

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rock band/arts collective

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, and has released three albums: ''Get Old and Die with Flaming Fire'' in 2001, ''Songs from the Shining Temple'' in 2003, and ''When the High Bell Rings'' in 2007.

Bibliography

* ''Inside Vineyland'' (Alternative Comics, 2003) * ''Girl Stories'' (Henry Holt, 2006) * ''The Goddess of War'' (Picturebox, 2008) *''M0ther's Walk'' (Youth in Decline, 2018)

References

External links

*
Sadie Magazine article "The Goddess of Comics"

Carriers
webcomic series by Lauren Weinstein {{DEFAULTSORT:Weinstein, Lauren American women cartoonists American female comics artists American comics writers Female comics writers 1975 births Living people Alternative cartoonists American rock musicians People from Brookline, Massachusetts Washington University in St. Louis alumni Artists from Massachusetts 20th-century American artists 20th-century American women artists 21st-century American artists 21st-century American women artists American Jews