Jan­ice Shapiro is the author of the graph­ic nov­el, Hono­ria: A For- tuitous Friend­ship (Fan­ta­graph- ics 2025) and Bum­mer and Oth­er Sto­ries (Soft Skull Press, 2010). Her sto­ries and comics have been pub­lished in many peri­od­i­cals and jour­nals. Her graph­ic essay Good Grief was includ­ed in The Peanuts Papers (Library of Amer­i­ca, 2019). Jan­ice lives in Berke­ley, Cal­i­for­nia, with her hus­band and dog.