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Personal life[edit]

When Melinda Gebbie first made her way into the comics industry, she was originally an artist from San Francisco. She met Lee Mars at a publishers' fair in 1973 and it prompted her being established in the underground comics industry after Lee asked her to collaborate with many other women comic artists in the making of Wimmen's Comix. She also contributed to other comics, such as Tits & Clits Comix, Wet Satin, and Anarchy Comics. In 1977, Melinda published her first solo comic, Fresca Zizis, which was later banned in Britain. She started working on animated films in 1984 in the UK. She worked on When The Wind Blows, which was a film adaption of Raymond Briggs. She later on collaborated with her husband, writer Alan Moore, to create the comic series Lost Girls. It took them 16 years to complete, and once published by Top Shelf, the comic was considered controversial to readers. In 2007, Melinda married Alan Moore.

Career[edit]

Early Career

In 1973, Melinda Gebbie met writer/artist Lee Mars at a publishers fair and was asked to contribute to Wimmen's Comix. Wimmen's comix was the second all-girl created comic anthologies, after It Ain't Me Babe. The comic series touches upon autobiographical content of the women creators' experiences, as well as discussions of more diverse topics, such as political awareness, homophobia, and sexual identities. Melinda contributed her first comic strip to Wimmen's Comix #3, the inceptive all-women anthology published by Last Gasp. She wrote and drew short stories for Wimmen's Comix and many other anthologies, including Tits & Clits Comix, Wet Satin, and Anarchy Comics.

In 1977, Melinda further established herself within the underground comics industry with her first solo work, Fresca Zizis.

In 1984 she moved to England to work on the animated film adaptation of Raymond Briggs' When the Wind Blows. Following this, she worked in a variety of illustration and office jobs and continued making short stories for anthologies such as Strip AIDS and Heartbreak Hotel. During this time she was briefly involved in an obscenity trial when Knockabout Comics was prosecuted by the UK's customs agency over the importation of 'pornographic' comics, including her Fresca Zizis. The verdict was that all the comics should be confiscated and burned; Fresca Zizis was made illegal to possess in the UK.

In the early 1990s, Alan Moore and Gebbie began collaborating on Lost Girls, a story in which the female protagonists of Peter and Wendy, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz meet and share sexual stories and experiences. Moore wrote the story, and Gebbie illustrated it. The story was finished in 2006. Meanwhile, she and Moore created Cobweb, a mysterious heroine who appeared in twelve issues of the Moore-written anthology Tomorrow Stories between 1999 and 2002.

Personal life[edit]

Gebbie married Alan Moore on 12 May 2007.