Websites: Pastel Defender Heliotrope, Unicorn Jelly, Jenniverse, Transsexuality

Bio: Jennifer Diane Reitz is a former game designer and game illustrator turned online cartoonist. She lives in Washington with her three polyamoric spouses. She creates science fiction comics that promote a positive Queer identity.

Her webcomics include:

Pastel Defender Heliotrope, the fully hand-painted story of a mysteriously animated artificial being and her quest for identity within a strange universe with unique physical laws. Pastel Defender Heliotrope examines the nature of what it means to be alive, and the impact of the individual upon society, all against a backdrop of unique and alien cosmological events.

To Save Her, a personality driven story set in the cosmos of Tryslmaistan from Unicorn Jelly, wherein a transgendered being native to that cosmos seeks a mysterious and ultimately cosmic goal related to the nature and meaning of personal identity. To Save Her is available as a twice-weekly additional comic on the Pastel Defender Heliotrope website.