One of the founding women underground comix cartoonists, Teresa Richards viewed comix as "an excuse to expand my mind creatively. Since there were no limits, as well as no money, artist were free to experiment without commercial restrains." Specific projects on which Terry Richards joined with others, both as editor and artist, included 'Mama! Dramas' (comics by women cartoonists who were also mothers), 'Manhunt', 'Wet Satin', 'Bizarre Sex', 'Tits & Clits Comix' and many issues of Wimmen's Comix. Terry has worked for twenty years as a graphic designer, work which includes making experimental short films and storyboarding for digital movies and CD-ROM's. She has also worked on a screenplay for a feature film, called 'Private Eye'.
Teresa Richards has also published under the names Terry Richards and Terry Balawejder.