Fiona Smyth: Risograph Print

Toronto’s Fiona Smyth is a feminist painter, illustrator, cartoonist, and educator. She collaborated with writer and sex educator Cory Silverberg on the Kickstarter funded picture book What Makes A Baby in 2012, re-released by Seven Stories Press in 2013. The second book in the series Sex Is A Funny Word was named a 2016 ALA Stonewall Book Award Honor book and won the 2016 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction. A collection of her monthly comic CHEEZ from Exclaim Magazine was published by Pedlar Press in 2001 and her first graphic novel The Never Weres was published by Annick Press in 2011.

Fiona collaborated with writer Mariko Tamaki for her stories in Secret Loves of Geek Girls and Theater of Terror - Revenge of the Queers, and cartoonist Ron Rege Jr. on Perish Plains Volume 4 for Perish Publishing. Her comics can also be found in Resist #1 and 2, edited by Francoise Mouly and Nadja Spiegelman, Mark Laliberte’s 4PANEL 2, and a thirty year collection of her comics titled Somnambulance published by Koyama Press in 2018.

Fiona was inducted into the Doug Wright Awards’ Giants Of The North Canadian Cartoonist Hall Of Fame alongside Alootook Ipellie in May 2019. She teaches illustration and cartooning at OCADU (Ontario College of Art & Design University) and the AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario).