- Artist
- Cartoonist
- Illustrator
- Writer
- American
Maia Kobabe (born 1989, Bay Area, California) is a nonbinary, queer cartoonist and author who uses e/em/eir pronouns. E holds an MFA in Comics from the California College of the Arts and worked in libraries for over a decade before becoming a full-time cartoonist.
Kobabe's graphic memoir Gender Queer: A Memoir (Lion Forge/Oni Press, 2019) — started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual — won the ALA Alex Award and a Stonewall Honor in 2020 and became the most challenged book in the United States in 2021, 2022, and 2023. Eir second book, Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding (co-authored with Dr. Sarah Peitzmeier), continues eir work on nonbinary health and identity. Eir short comics have been published in The Nib, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, NPR, and Time magazine.
Gender Queer: A Memoir (Lion Forge/Oni Press, 2019)
Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding (co-author with Dr. Sarah Peitzmeier)
ALA Alex Award — Gender Queer: A Memoir (2020); Stonewall Honor — Gender Queer: A Memoir (2020); Most Challenged Book in the US (2021, 2022, 2023)