Tara Madison Avery

Cartoonist of Gooch and Anything that Loves

Tara Madison Avery published her first professional comics in 1990 in the now defunct Lawrence, KS music newspaper The Note. Since then she has created the cult-favorite webcomics Dirtheads and Gooch and contributed stories to Astrokitty Comics Presents, Pocketbook Heroes, Death Saves, and the groundbreaking bi/pan/fluid comics anthology, Anything That Loves. Avery joined non-profit Prism Comics in 2012, and has organized LGBTQ-oriented panel discussions at conventions all over the country. In 2015 she founded Stacked Deck Press, a comics publishing house dedicated to showcasing LGBT creators. She is currently working on a new comic, Merrier, inspired by the Los Angeles bi, trans, and poly communities.

More about Tara Madison Avery

Twitter: @taramavery
Art website: cheatingatsolitaire.net
Stacked Deck Press on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stackeddeckpress/