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Jennifer Camper is an American comics artist and graphic artist whose work is inspired by her own experiences as a Lebanese-American lesbian. Her work has been included in various outlets and publications such as newspapers and magazines. Her work was also seen in exhibits throughout Europe and the United States. Camper is also the creator and director of the biennial Queers and Comics conference.

Career
Camper, who is openly lesbian,[1] has been producing comics since the 1980s. Her work has appeared in many publications. Jennifer Camper is also the editor of the famous comic book called Juicy Mother. Her editing of this book is very significant due to it being the first anthology of queer comics to have appeared since the release of Gay Comix. Not only has her work been seen in different comic books, she also has published two comic books of her own. Camper has been successful on paper, however, she has also been a huge influence in the queer community. With being openly gay and writing about the experiences queer females go through in their day to day lives, she has shed light on serious topics. In an interview with Camper in 2018, she talks about the impact that different LGBTQ cartoonists have on the community. Camper likes to explore and write about tough topics such as gender, race, class, and politics. Her openness has allowed other cartoonist, such as MC Czerwiec, to write about tough topics of their own. MC has written about the AIDS based on her own personal experiences as a AIDS/HIV nurse. MC Czerwiec’s mentions that Campers, “Bearing Angry Witness” was a huge influence on her work.

Influences
Jennifer Camper explains in an interview with Rob Kirby that being a cartoonist was not something she decided to become. Jennifer Camper says that she fell into comics and art. She began with comics and illustrated stories and used these in school and just for pure entertainment for the people around her. She discovered Underground Comics when she was a teen ager and then went on to read comics written about the LGBTQ community such as, Wimmen's Comix, Tits & Clits, Girl Blimp, and Gay Comix. Once she got into reading these comics she says that, "i never doubted that there was room for my own voice in comics." Following her teenage years she began to draw comics for the Gay Community News in Boston. She then submitted her work to Gay Comix and with that she developed an audience and the outlets gave her assignments and deadlines. She was able to develop her drawing skills due to the lack of money and the use of cheap-paper.

After she established herself in the comics world, she began drawing comics based on her personal life. She was inspired to show queer women has being adventurous, sexy, dangerous, and victorious. Her characters are mostly multi-racial, street smart, wild women who made it a point to go against social norms and are proud of this.

Publications her work has appeared in:

 * The Village Voice
 * San Francisco Bay Times
 * Ms. Magazine
 * Curve
 * On Our Backs
 * Washington Blade
 * The Advocate
 * Out Magazine
 * Girlfriends

Anthologies

 * Boy Trouble, edited by Robert Kirby
 * Gay Comix
 * The Great Women Cartoonists and A Century of Women Cartoonists, both edited by Trina Robbins.
 * Two Volumes of Juicy Mother
 * Juicy Mother: Celebration, edited by Jennifer Camper, Soft Skull Press, 2005
 * Juicy Mother:How They Met, edited by Jennifer Camper, Manic D Press, 2007

Books

 * Rude Girls and Dangerous Women, published by Laugh Lines Press in 1994
 * SubGURLZ, published by Cleis Press in 1999.[2]

cy Mother have been released so far. The first, entitled Juicy Mother: Celebration, was published by Soft Skull Press in 2005. This anthology featured the work of the artists and writers Alison Bechdel, the aforementioned Howard Cruse, Diane DiMassa, Michael Fahy, Leanne Franson, Joan Hilty, G.B. Jones, Rupert Kinnard, Robert Kirby, Serena Pillai, Karen Platt, Ariel Schrag, Robert Triptow, Ivan Velez Jr., Stephen Winter and Camper herself. The anthology was a finalist for the 18th Annual Lambda Literary Awards in the Humor category.