| Notable Works: | Deep Girl Raisin Pie |
| Cartoonist: | y |
| Artist: | y |
| Nationality: | American |
| Spouse: | Rick Altergott |
| Website: | https://www.arielbcomics.com/ |
Ariel Bordeaux is an American alternative cartoonist, painter, and writer. She is known for the confessional autobiographical minicomics series Deep Girl and the two-person title (with her husband Rick Altergott) Raisin Pie.
Bordeaux graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts in 1991.[1]
Bordeaux self-published five issues of the Deep Girl minicomic during the years 1993 to 1995.[2] (Paper Rocket Minicomics collected all five issues in a book called The Complete Deep Girl in 2013.)
In the mid-1990s, Bordeaux illustrated stories in Dennis Eichhorn's Real Stuff series, published by Fantagraphics. Later in the decade, she also contributed stories to anthologies like Aeon Publications's On Our Butts; Sarah Dyer's Action Girl Comics; Peter Bagge's Hate; Fantagraphics' Dirty Stories, Spicecapades, and Measles; and DC's Bizarro Comics.
Bordeaux and Deep Girl were nominated for the 1997 Kimberly Yale Award for Best New Talent (part of the Lulu Awards). That same year, Drawn & Quarterly published her romance graphic novel No Love Lost.[3]
Bordeaux served on the 2003 Ignatz Award jury.
In the 2000s, in addition to Raisin Pie, she contributed work to a number of anthologies, including Alternative Comics' zombie anthology Bogus Dead (2002), Friends of Lulu's Broad Appeal (2003), the middle school-stories anthology Stuck in the Middle: 17 Comics from an Unpleasant Age (Viking Juvenile, 2007), and the Center for Cartoon Studies' The Cartoon Crier (2012).
In 2012, Bordeaux received her MFA from the Center for Cartoon Studies.[4] She currently works as a Special Collections Associate at Rhode Island School of Design.
Bordeaux is married to fellow cartoonist Rick Altergott.