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Pia Guerra

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Pia Guerra
Pia Guerra at the Vancouver Comicon, March 2006
Nationality Canadian
Area(s) artist, pencils
Notable works Y: The Last Man series
Awards Eisner AwardHarvey AwardJoe Shuster Award
http://www.hellkitty.com

Pia Jasmin Guerra is a Canadian comic book artist, best known for her work as co-creator and lead penciller on the Vertigo title Y: The Last Man. She has worked in the comics industry since the 1990s, and has also contributed to Doctor Who: The Forgotten, along with DC and Marvel comics.[1][2] Today, Guerra has a Twitter page where she posts political cartoons.[3]

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Education and Early Career[edit]

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At the age of 10, Guerra’s cousin visited from Queens and introduced her to comics by leaving his issue of X-Men #129 on the coffee table in her house.[4] After reading the comic, Guerra went to a comic book store to buy more, and continued to read comics thereafter.[5] As a self-taught artist, Guerra was always interested in art, but she planned to pursue other careers, such as medicine.[6]

In high school, Guerra attended comic conventions and started to consider pursuing a career in comics.[7] As her plans shifted, Guerra made the decision to forgo secondary education and instead focus on pursuing a career in comics.[8]

During her early career, Guerra did voice over work and worked on many different video games and video game manuals.[9] In 1998, Guerra created storyboards for Boeing Employee’s Credit Union and Microsoft Studios.[10] Before creating Y: The Last Man, Guerra began emailing back and forth with Brian K. Vaughan, and they made plans to meet in San Diego.[11]

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Guerra’s first major project was the Vertigo title Y: The Last Man, which she co-created with Brian Vaughan and pencilled for.[12] Guerra had worked on various independent titles since the mid-1990s, but Y: The Last Man is known as her "big break" in the comics industry.  She currently resides in Vancouver, Canada, and is married to comic book author and comedian Ian Boothby (Simpsons Comics).

In 2005, Pia Guerra worked as a penciller on Marvel's Spider-Man: Unlimited.[13] In the late 2000s, Guerra contributed to a Doctor Who comic entitled Doctor Who: The Forgotten (published by IDW Publishing and written by UK writer Tony Lee), and to a Torchwood series (for Torchwood Magazine) written by Gareth David-Lloyd. She has co-written two issues of Simpsons Comics for Bongo Comics with Ian Boothby.

From 2013 to 2015, she worked on five comic book covers, including a variant cover for Black Canary.[14] From 2017 Guerra has done editorial cartoons for the online page The Nib and regularly does cartoons for The New Yorker. She also accepts commissions through email.[15]

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External links[edit]

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  1. ^ "Pia's Resume - HELLKITTY STUDIOS". HELLKITTY STUDIOS. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  2. ^ "Spider-Man Unlimited (2004 - 2006) | Comic Books | Comics | Marvel.com". marvel.com. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  3. ^ "Pia Guerra". The Nib. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  4. ^ webmistress@sequentialtart.com. "Sequential Tart: Pia Guerra - Y: The Last Monkey (vol VI/iss 7/July 2003)". www.sequentialtart.com. Retrieved 2017-11-30. {{cite web}}: horizontal tab character in |title= at position 50 (help)
  5. ^ webmistress@sequentialtart.com. "Sequential Tart: Pia Guerra - Y: The Last Monkey (vol VI/iss 7/July 2003)". www.sequentialtart.com. Retrieved 2017-11-30. {{cite web}}: horizontal tab character in |title= at position 50 (help)
  6. ^ webmistress@sequentialtart.com. "Sequential Tart: Pia Guerra - Y: The Last Monkey (vol VI/iss 7/July 2003)". www.sequentialtart.com. Retrieved 2017-11-30. {{cite web}}: horizontal tab character in |title= at position 50 (help)
  7. ^ webmistress@sequentialtart.com. "Sequential Tart: Pia Guerra - Y: The Last Monkey (vol VI/iss 7/July 2003)". www.sequentialtart.com. Retrieved 2017-11-30. {{cite web}}: horizontal tab character in |title= at position 50 (help)
  8. ^ webmistress@sequentialtart.com. "Sequential Tart: Pia Guerra - Y: The Last Monkey (vol VI/iss 7/July 2003)". www.sequentialtart.com. Retrieved 2017-11-30. {{cite web}}: horizontal tab character in |title= at position 50 (help)
  9. ^ "Pia's Resume - HELLKITTY STUDIOS". HELLKITTY STUDIOS. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  10. ^ "Pia's Resume - HELLKITTY STUDIOS". HELLKITTY STUDIOS. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  11. ^ webmistress@sequentialtart.com. "Sequential Tart: Pia Guerra - Y: The Last Monkey (vol VI/iss 7/July 2003)". www.sequentialtart.com. Retrieved 2017-11-30. {{cite web}}: horizontal tab character in |title= at position 50 (help)
  12. ^ "Pia's Resume - HELLKITTY STUDIOS". HELLKITTY STUDIOS. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  13. ^ "Pia's Resume - HELLKITTY STUDIOS". HELLKITTY STUDIOS. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  14. ^ "Pia's Resume - HELLKITTY STUDIOS". HELLKITTY STUDIOS. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  15. ^ "FAQ - HELLKITTY STUDIOS". HELLKITTY STUDIOS. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  16. ^ "Pia's Resume - HELLKITTY STUDIOS". HELLKITTY STUDIOS. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  17. ^ "Pia's Resume - HELLKITTY STUDIOS". HELLKITTY STUDIOS. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  18. ^ "Pia's Resume - HELLKITTY STUDIOS". HELLKITTY STUDIOS. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  19. ^ "Spider-Man Unlimited (2004) #10 | Comics | Marvel.com". marvel.com. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  20. ^ "Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror #13 | Bongo Comics". www.bongocomics.com. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  21. ^ "Elephantmen #64 | Releases | Image Comics". imagecomics.com. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  22. ^ "BLACK CANARY #4". DC. 2015-06-15. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  23. ^ "2008 Scream Awards". Wikipedia. 2017-11-12.
  24. ^ "Le Prix du Festival International de la Bande Dessinée Angoulême". www.hahnlibrary.net. Retrieved 2017-11-30.