Diane Robin Noomin was an American comics artist associated with the underground comics movement.
12 Facts About Diane Noomin
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Diane Noomin is best known for her character DiDi Glitz, who addresses transgressive social issues such as feminism, female masturbation, body image, and miscarriages.
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Diane Noomin did theatrical work, creating a stage adaptation of DiDi Glitz.
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Diane Noomin was born the elder of two sisters in Canarsie.
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Diane Noomin's work appeared in all seven issues of Arcade, co-edited by Bill Griffith and Art Spiegelman.
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Kominsky and Diane Noomin put together a 36-page one-shot issue of Twisted Sisters in 1976, published by Last Gasp, which featured their own humorous and "self-deprecating" stories and art.
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In 1978, Noomin edited the Print Mint one-shot Lemme Outa Here, a comics collection of stories of life in mid-century American suburbs, featuring Noomin, Michael McMillan, Robert Armstrong, Griffith, Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky, Kim Deitch, Justin Green, Mark Beyer, and M K Brown.
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In 1980, Diane Noomin collaborated with Les Nickelettes, a San Francisco-based women's theater group, to produce a musical comedy based on DiDi Glitz.
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In 1984, after a ten-year hiatus, Diane Noomin returned to the pages of Wimmen's Comix; her work appeared in almost every issue from that point forward.
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In 1991, Diane Noomin edited and put together a 260-page trade paperback anthology which she called Twisted Sisters: A Collection of Bad Girl Art, featuring the work of herself, Kominsky-Crumb, and 13 other female cartoonists, including many former Wimmen's Comix contributors.
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Diane Noomin was long involved with cartoonist Bill Griffith, whom she first met at a New Year's Eve party in San Francisco in 1972.
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Diane Noomin died from uterine cancer on September 1,2022.