Sarah Dyer

• Birthplace — Louisiana, U.S. • Write — y • Pencil — y • Ink — y • Color — y • Notable Works — Action Girl Comics • Awards — Lulu Award 1998 • Website — http: www.houseoffunstudio.com/ • Spouse — Evan Dorkin

Dyer was born in Louisiana, went to college in Gainesville, Florida and then moved to New York City. She showed an early interest in self-publishing and the DIY philosophy by self-publishing her own zines and making her own clothes. At the age of 10, she published the "family newspaper" with comics in it.

Dyer's first work was a small publication called The Silhouette. While in school in Gainesville, Florida in 1988, she worked on the No Idea fanzine with Var Thelin. Unsatisfied with not getting credit for her work to date, Dyer created Mad Planet as her first solo work, and started collecting female zine work. This collection grew into a project in 1992, when Dyer created and began distributing the Action Girl Newsletter. This was a review zine, listing zines and mini-comics created by female writers and artists. In an interview, Dyer described the ideal audience of works such as Xena as "post-feminist women and girls." Dyer donated these zines, accumulated from reviewing for the Action Girl Newsletter, to Duke University, where it formed the core of their Zine Collections at the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.

Dyer worked with Dorkin on the pilot episode for Welcome to Eltingville in 2002. The couple wrote some episodes of the Superman: The Animated Series, such as the episode "Live Wire", which introduced a new character of the same name. The pair contributed to the script of the 2006 English-language version of the anime Shin Chan, which ran for six episodes.

Dyer is married to fellow comics writer/artist Evan Dorkin with whom she has a daughter named Emily.