Comic art by Phoebe Gloeckner.
Phoebe Gloeckner was born in Philadelphia and raised in San Francisco. Always fascinated by anatomy and physiology, she received her master's degree in medical illustration in 1988 from The University of Texas South Western Medical Center at Dallas. Since then, Gloeckner has been working as a medical artist. In this capacity, she was given free reign to interpret and illustrate J.G. Ballard's (author of 'Crash' and 'Empire of the Sun') controversial novel, 'The Atrocity Exhibition'.
Comic art by Phoebe Gloeckner.
Gloeckner's comics work first appeared in underground comix publications when she was in her teens. She continued to do stories for such titles as Weirdo, Young Lust, Buzzard, and Twisted Sisters. A collection of her comics, paintings, and etchings, 'A Child's Life and Other Stories', with an introduction by Robert Crumb, was published by Frog, Ltd. in 1998. Her illustrated novel, 'The Diary of a Teen-Age Girl' (2002), has been described as troubling, nauseating, and often at the same time, beautiful. In 2015 the novel was adapted into a feature film. Gloeckner's work in this genre was the focus of an exhibition at San Francisco's Cartoon Art Museum. She was a special guest at the San Diego International ComicCon 2000.
She was an influence on Sophie Crumb.
Medical illustration.