Bio: Lulu Award winning cartoonist Abby Denson's teen coming-out graphic novel, Tough Love: High School Confidential, out from Manic D Press, collects the serial that ran in XY magazine. She does a dessert column in comic format called The City Sweet Tooth for The L Magazine. Other comics she's created include: Dolltopia, Night Club, and Deadsy Cat & Kissy Kitty. She also does comics for gURL.com

She also scripts licensed comics including Powerpuff Girls, The Simpsons, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, Josie and the Pussycats, Disney Adventures, and comics for Nickelodeon magazine.

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