19 Facts About Lee Marrs

Lee Marrs was born on September 5,1945 and is an American cartoonist and animator, and one of the first female underground comix creators.

Lee Marrs is best known for her comic book series The Further Fattening Adventures of Pudge, Girl Blimp, which lasted from 1973 to 1977.

Lee Marrs grew up in Montgomery, Alabama, and attended American University, graduating in 1967 with a degree in fine arts.

Lee Marrs then began assisting Blaisdell, working on comics such as Little Orphan Annie, Prince Valiant, and Hi and Lois.

Lee Marrs was as a graphic artist on an Emmy-Award-winning animation about the 1968 riots.

Lee Marrs was a frequent contributor to underground comix and one of the "founding mommies" of the Wimmen's Comix collective.

Lee Marrs' comic emphasizes the idea that equality for all women is equality not only of entrance but equality of execution.

Lee Marrs provided stories for the underground titles Wet Satin, Manhunt, El Perfecto, and Gates of Heaven.

Lee Marrs created short futuristic graphic tales for Heavy Metal magazine, Epic Illustrated, and Imagine magazine.

In 2016, Lee Marrs published a complete edition of Pudge, Girl Blimp which was nominated for an Eisner Award in 2017.

Lee Marrs was one of few underground cartoonists to work for mainstream comics publishers, and one of the first women to work for DC Comics and Marvel Comics simultaneously.

Lee Marrs was introduced to DC Comics editor Joe Orlando by Tex Blaisdell.

Lee Marrs wrote 2 Indiana Jones miniseries for Dark Horse Comics: Indiana Jones and the Arms of Gold and Indiana Jones and the Iron Phoenix, both drawn by Leo Duranona.

Lee Marrs worked in 2D digital animation in the early 1980s.

Lee Marrs began teaching at Berkeley City College in 2000, serving as Multimedia Chair there until her retirement in 2014.

Lee Marrs' comics influenced feminism, queer theory, and visual culture in the 1980s.

Lee Marrs equates these concrete examples with rejection, for they foreclose the ability of the collective to reach a broader feminist audience despite their varied attempts to participate.

Lee Marrs was awarded the Comic-Con International Inkpot Award in 1982.

Lee Marrs won an Emmy for her work as an animation director.