Sarah Dyer

Sarah Dyer is an American comic book writer and artist with roots in the zine movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s.

In 1998, Action Girl was awarded with the "Lulu of the Year" award of Friends of Lulu.

Early life 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.

Career Zines 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. at the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture. In October 1994, Dyer launched the all-female comics anthology Action Girl Comics, including the cover art for several ska compilation albums in the 1990s. Dyer wrote for Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Superman Adventures, and Batman Beyond.

Awards and nominations Sarah Dyer was nominated for a Lulu Award in the category "Lulu of the Year" in 1997 and won in 1998 for her Action Girl series. That same year, she was nominated for Best Colorist for Amy Racecar Color Special #1 by the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. In 1999 she and her husband Evan Dorkin were nominated for the Annie Award for Best Writing for the Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode "Lawsuit".