Mara McCormick is a queer cartoonist from Toronto, currently living in Gainesville, Florida. She graduated from a year long comics program at The Sequential Artists Workshop, and was one of their emerging artists in residence for 2022-23.
Her short story 'When We Lived Together In The Belly Of A Whale, Some Nights Were Perfect' won the 2013 Stella Kupferberg Prize. It was read on stage by actor and Jurassic Park Dinosaur Scientist BD Wong, and aired on NPR in an episode of Selected Shorts.
Her comics have been published in 4panel, Descant, Carte Blanche and some other places, and she has tabled at many a zine fair. She is half of collaborative collage zine Florida Pest.
Lover of pink lipstick, black ink, black and white movies. Aspiring shepherdess. Hit her up if you need someone to watch your goats.