Shaenon K. Garrity is a webcomics writer and artist, best known as the creator of Narbonic. She was one of the most prominent cartoonists in the Modern Tales network of commercial webcomic sites, and served as the site's editor from 2006 to 2012 In addition to writing and drawing Narbonic, she wrote spinoff series Li'l Mell and Sergio for Girlamatic, wrote Smithson for Webcomics Nation and is currently working on the comic Skin Horse which she illustrates and co-authors with Jeffrey Channing Wells. She wrote a column called "All the Comics in the World" for comiXology.com from 2007 to 2012, and currently writes a webcomic review column called No One Knows You're A Dog for The Comics Journal. She created the webcomic Smithson, with art by Robert Stevenson, Brian Moore, and Roger Langridge. The strip was first called More Fun and premiered in September 2003 as one of the original strips on the subscription-based site Graphic Smash. The strip, which makes some use of infinite canvas techniques, follows the exploits of the self-appointed campus superhero, Chamucka Man, and several students who attend Smithson College. [More at Wikipedia]

May 4th, 1978 in (Age 46)