Lea Hernandez
Lea Hernandez (born March 11, 1964) is an American comic book and webcomic creator, known primarily for working in a manga-influenced style, and for doing lettering and touch-ups on manga imports. She is the co-creator of Killer Princesses, written by Gail Simone and published by Oni Press; and the creator of Rumble Girls from NBM Publishing.
Also recorded as Lea H. Seidman · Lea Hernandez Seidman
Lea Hernandez
- Born
- 11 March 1964
- Nationality
- American
- Occupation
- comics artist, comics writer and illustrator.
- Fields
- illustration and comic.
- Languages
- English.
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Lea Hernandez (born March 11, 1964) is an American comic book and webcomic creator, known primarily for working in a manga-influenced style, and for doing lettering and touch-ups on manga imports. She is the co-creator of Killer Princesses, written by Gail Simone and published by Oni Press; and the creator of Rumble Girls from NBM Publishing.
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Lea Hernandez (born 1964) is a comics artist, comics writer and illustrator, of American nationality. The comics artist was born in Alameda.
Lea Hernandez lived in San Antonio. Activity centred on comic and illustration. Languages used include English.
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Key facts
• Born — 11 March 1964 • Nationality — American • Art — y • Letter — y • Notable Works — Killer Princesses Rumble Girls
Career
Career
She did art for comics published by Marvel Comics and DC Comics: Marvel Mangaverse: Punisher (a one-shot), and Transmetropolitan (two two-page shorts). She also did art for three issues of The Hardy Boys manga-style series at Papercutz. Hernandez published several webcomics at Modern Tales and was the original editor of Girlamatic. In 2002, Hernandez created the short webcomic Near Life Experience for Modern Tales. Hernandez has written several short stories for collections of science fiction and fantasy. She was a vice president for General Products, USA (the U.S. marketing arm of Gainax) from 1989–1990 and was briefly a guest editor for Wizard. Hernandez appeared in Adventures Into Digital Comics, a 2006 documentary on the comics industry. She did art on eight issues of the DC Comics title Teen Titans GO!
Personal life
Personal life
On the morning of September 6, 2006, her house in Texas burned down and much of her original artwork was lost in the fire. Colleagues in the comics industry responded by collecting donations for Hernandez from fans and friends in the comics industry. In 2014, she married former LA Times comics syndicate and Disney Comics editor David Seidman.
Short stories
Short stories
• "800-DJIN-HLP" in Aladdin: Master of the Lamp. edited by Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg, DAW books, 1992. • "Al Einstein—Nazi Smasher!" in Alternate Warriors, edited by Mike Resnick, Tor Books, 1993. • "Pteri" in Dinosaur Fantastic. edited by Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg, DAW book, 1993. • "The Ghost of Christmas Scams." in Christmas Ghosts. edited by Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg, DAW Books, 1993. • "The Journal of #3 Honeysuckle Lane" in Witch Fantastic. edited by Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg, DAW Books, 1995.
Identity
Identity
Lea Hernandez is recorded as comics artist, comics writer and illustrator.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1964
Lea Hernandez born at Alameda.
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San Antonio.
Residences
Alameda.
Birth place
Books
• Cathedral Child. Somerville, Maryland: Cyberosia Publishing, 1998. • Clockwork Angels. Berkeley, California: Image, 2001 • Rumble Girls. New York: NBM Publishing, 2003. • Manga Secrets. Cincinnati, Ohio: Impact, 2005.
Awards
Hernandez received a 1999 Eisner Award nomination for Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition. In 2004, she was awarded Lulu of the Year by Friends of Lulu, a now disbanded women in comics organization, for editing at Girlamatic.
Literature
Scholarly footprint
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Sources consulted
Sources consulted
• Guzman, Rene A. (January 23, 2002). "Manga revises Marvel heroes". San Antonio Express-News, p. 1G. • Pethokoukis, James M. (September 25, 2000). "Help, Spidey, help! Comics are dying!". U.S. News & World Report, p. 46. • Wolk, Douglas (November 1, 2004). "Web Comics Send Readers Looking for Books". Publishers Weekly, p. 15.
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- 1.Kross, Karin L. "An Interview with Lea Hernandez," Bookslut (Nov, 2003).
- 2.Hernandez credits, Grand Comics Database. Accessed Feb. 27, 2014.
- 3.The Hardy Boys: The Ocean of Osyria (Papercutz, Jan.–Mar. 2005).
- 4.Sebastian, Trisha. Near Life Experience. Sequential Tart. 2002-12-01.
- 5."Pre-web anime fandom (Out of the Archives 4)," Lainspotting (March 24, 2006).
- 6.Contino, Jennifer. "Rumble Girlamatic: Lea Hernandez," Sequential Tart vol. VI, issue 3 (March 2003).
- 7.Promo.icon.org.il. Icon Film Festival.
- 8.Lea Hernandez. DC. Mar 4, 2012.
- 9.Weiland, Jonah. "Lea Hernandez's House Burned, Simone Rallies Help," Comic Book Resources (Sept. 6, 2006).
- 10.Simone, Gail. "A Planet Karen Plea from Gail Simone," Newsarama (02 March 2009).
- 11."Eisner Awards," Hahn Library. Accessed Feb. 27, 2014.
- 12."Lulu Awards," Friends of Lulu website. Accessed Feb. 27, 2014.
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