Maia Kobabe

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| date_birth=1991<ref name="Watts">{{Cite web |title=Petaluma comic artist draws on passion |author=Watts, Katie |work=Santa Rosa Press Democrat |date=January 6, 2015 |access-date=May 10, 2020 |url= https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/3315297-181/petaluma-comic-artist-draws-on|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408063032/https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/3315297-181/petaluma-comic-artist-draws-on |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
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| nationality=American (United States of America)
| pronouns=[[e/em/eir]]<ref name="Oliver">{{Cite web |title=Gender Queer: A Memoir – Maia Kobabe Explains What it Means to Be Non-Binary and Asexual in Eir Vitally Important Graphic Memoir from Lion Forge |last=Oliver |first=Andy |work=Broken Frontier |date=May 15, 2019 |access-date=May 10, 2020 |url= http://www.brokenfrontier.com/gender-queer-memoir-maia-kobabe-lion-forge/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221129135530/https://www.brokenfrontier.com/gender-queer-memoir-maia-kobabe-lion-forge/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
| gender=[[Nonbinary]]
| occupation=author and illustrator
| known_for=Gender Queer: A Memoir
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'''Maia Kobabe''' is a [[nonbinary]], [[queer]] author that uses e/em pronouns with an MFA in Comics from California College of the Arts. E has been self publishing comics since 2010.<ref name="About">Kobabe, Maia. “About.” About - Maia Kobabe, redgoldsparkspress.com/about.</ref> Eir work focuses on themes of [[identity]], [[Orientation|sexuality]], anti-fascism, fairy tales, and homesickness.<ref>Kobabe, Maia. “Maia Kobabe.” The Nib, The Nib, 7 Feb. 2020, thenib.com/author/maia-kobabe/.</ref> Maia has created a graphic novel memoir called ''Gender Queer: A Memoir'' (which won a Stonewall Honor award in 2020<ref>http://www.ala.org/rt/rrt/award/stonewall/honored [https://web.archive.org/web/20230307044311/https://www.ala.org/rt/rrt/award/stonewall/honored Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>) and eir short comics have been published on The Nib.

E does not have a middle name.

Kobabe created the following comics:<ref name="About" />
* ''Tom O'Bedlam'' (2015)
* ''The Thief's Tales #1 and #2''
* ''The Non-Binary Bunny''

E has also made short comics for these anthologies:<ref name="About" />
* ''Alphabet'' (2015)
* ''Tabula Idem'' (2017)
* ''Mine!'' (2018)
* ''Gothic Tales of Haunted Love'' (2018)
* ''The Secret Love of Geeks'' (2018)
* ''Faster Than Light Y'all'' (2018)
* ''Advanced Death Saves'' (2019)
* ''How to Wait'' (2019)
* ''Shout Out'' (2019)
* ''Rolled and Told'' (2019)

==Website==
* [http://redgoldsparkspress.com Official Website]

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