Illustrator
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Maria Sweeney is a Moldovan-born, Bay Area-based digital illustrator, author and comic artist. Her debut graphic memoir, Brittle Joints, lushly illustrates her lifelong battle for care within the complex and indifferent US healthcare system while finding liberation through chosen family, loving community, and the natural world. The memoir will be published by Street Noise Books in August 2024.
Maria illustrated the children’s book, The Scooter Twins, written by Dorothy Ellen Palmer, about twins with opposite personalities, getting mobility devices for the first time, forthcoming from Groundwood Books, the children’s book arm of House of Anansi Press. She won an Outstanding Submission in the 2019 Locher Memorial Awards for her educational mini-comic, The Straw Ban, about the impact of this ban on disabled people. Her work has been published in Fantagraphics, The Comics Journal, Front Line Defenders’ Cypher Comics, as well as self-published comics relating to her experience of navigating the world with a rare disability.
She graduated magna cum laude from Moore College of Art and Design with a BFA in Illustration and works extensively in digital, oils, watercolors, pen and pencil. In addition she speaks publicly and advocates for accessibility in the arts. When she’s not reading or sketching comics, or cultivating her Patreon community, she’s snuggling with her tiny dog, Bambi.
