Iconic: Iconic People
Jobs/Roles:
- Artist
Ethnicity/Nationality:
- American
- Black
Pronouns: She/Her
Gender:
Y. Sanders is a Queens, NY-born comic artist and illustrator. She attended LaGuardia High School of the Arts and majored in illustration and graphic design at the School of Visual Arts. She won the Blue Dot Award for her short comic Possessed, created a digital comic about Sojourner Truth for UNESCO's Women in African History series, and has contributed to anthologies from Red Stylo Media, Power Magic Press, and A Wave Blue World. She was formerly one half of Sin Comix, one of the first independent publishing companies run by two Black women.
