Joan Hilty was born on December 27,1966 and is an American cartoonist, educator, and comic book editor.
11 Facts About Joan Hilty
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Joan Hilty was a Senior Editor for mainstream publisher DC Comics and currently works for Nickelodeon as Editorial Director for graphic novels, comics, and legacy properties.
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Joan Hilty was published in an issue of Wimmen's Comix.
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Joan Hilty produced the syndicated strip Bitter Girl, about lesbian dating, from 2001 to 2012; the comic can be found on her website.
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Joan Hilty began with the company's mature-readers Vertigo imprint, for which she won the 1999 International Horror Guild Award for the Vertigo anthology Flinch.
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Joan Hilty switched to editing superhero titles in 2000, established the Johnny DC imprint for young readers in 2004, and in 2008 began curating original graphic novels for Vertigo.
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Joan Hilty continues to work on independent comic book projects with a variety of publishers, including The Curie Society and Blue Man World.
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Joan Hilty was a member of the faculty for Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore from January 2012 through January 2016, and is a current professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
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Joan Hilty is on the programming committee for Miami Book Fair International and Brooklyn Book Festival.
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Joan Hilty's art has been exhibited at the New Museum in New York City, and the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.
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In 1999, Joan Hilty began a relationship with Nancy Goldstein and they married in 2004 in the state of Massachusetts.