Maia Kobabe

 ( 21st-century American Lgbtq People ) 

Maia Kobabe (, born 1989

) is an American cartoonist and author who wrote the memoir (2019). Kobabe's work features themes of "identity, sexuality, anti-fascism, fairy tales and homesickness".

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Education Kobabe was one of the first students enrolled in the Master of Fine Arts in Comics program at California College of the Arts, and graduated in 2015.

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Career Kobabe's graphic nonfiction work has been featured in The Nib, The Press Democrat, and SF Weekly, among other publications.

Kobabe's first full-length book was published by Lion Forge Comics in 2019. When asked in a Time magazine interview why Kobabe wrote the book, Kobabe said: Gender Queer was made available in some school libraries but was subsequently banned by a school district in Alaska, due to its sexually explicit content. Kobabe responded to the controversy with an opinion piece in The Washington Post, suggesting that accusers were upset less by the sexually explicit images and language than by the LGBTQ themes of the book. Gender Queer was listed as one of the most banned or challenged books in September 2021 by The American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom (OIF). According to a report (September 2022) from PEN America, Kobabe was the second most banned author in US school districts during the 2021–22 school year, with Gender Queer the most frequently challenged book, banned in 41 school districts. Discussing a wave of book censorship in early 2022 within the United States in a Slate interview, Kobabe said: In January 2023, Scholastic acquired Saachi's Stories by Kobabe and Lucky Srikumar "in a six-figure auction". The middle-grade graphic novel is scheduled for publication by Scholastic's imprint GRAPHIX in 2025.

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Personal life Kobabe uses ( e/em/eir) and identifies as non-binary and Asexuality. Kobabe is Dyslexia and did not learn to read until age 11.

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Bibliography

• Maia Kobabe (2019). 9781549304002, Lion Forge Comics. ISBN 9781549304002

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Anthologies

Kobabe has published short comics in the following anthologies:

• Alphabet (Stacked Deck Press, 2016)
• Tabula Idem: A Queer Tarot Comic Anthology (Fortuna Media, 2017)
• The Secret Loves of Geeks (Dark Horse Comics, 2018)
  (2025). 9781506704739, Dark Horse Comics. ISBN 9781506704739
• Gothic Tales of Haunted Love (Bedside Press, 2018)
  (2018). 9781988715070, Bedside Press. ISBN 9781988715070
• Mine!: A Celebration of Liberty And Freedom For All Benefiting Planned Parenthood (ComicMix, 2018)
  (2018). 9781939888662, ComicMix. ISBN 9781939888662
• Faster Than Light, Y’all (Iron Circus Comics, 2018)
• Advanced Death Saves (Lost His Keys Man Comics, 2019)
• How to Wait: An Anthology of Transition (edited by Sage Persing, 2019)
• Theater of Terror: Revenge of the Queers (Northwest Press, 2019)
  (2025). 9781943890477, Northwest Press. . ISBN 9781943890477
• Rolled and Told Vol. 2 (Oni Press, 2020)
  (2020). 9781620107454, Oni Press. ISBN 9781620107454
• Be Gay, Do Comics (IDW Publishing, 2020)
  (2020). 9781684057771, National Geographic Books. ISBN 9781684057771

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Awards

• 2016 Ignatz Award — Promising New Talent Nominee ( Tom O’Bedlam)
• 2019 Ignatz Award Outstanding Graphic Novel Nominee ( Gender Queer: A Memoir)
• 2019 YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens Nominee ( Gender Queer: A Memoir)
• 2020 American Library Association Alex Awards Winner ( Gender Queer: A Memoir)
• 2020 Stonewall Book Awards — Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Honor Book ( Gender Queer: A Memoir)

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External links

• Official website
• "The State of Comics and Censorship During Banned Books Week," The Comics Journal

Categories: 21st-century American Lgbtq People, American Non-binary Artists, American Non-binary Writers, American Graphic Novelists, American Comics Artists, Lgbtq Comics Creators, Non-binary Comics Writers, Non-binary Memoirists, Non-binary Science Fiction Writers, Non-binary Asexual People, Living People, California College Of The Arts Alumni, 1989 Births, Writers With Dyslexia, American Writers With Disabilities, Transgender People With Disabilities, Lgbtq Writers With Disabilities, American Anti-fascists

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