Sina Grace

Sina Grace (born August 3, 1986) is an American comics writer, artist, memoirist, and social media personality. He is known for writing or drawing for various publishers, including Marvel, Image, and BOOM! Comics, including Iceman, Go-Go Power Rangers, and Self-Obsessed.

Early life

Sina Grace was born August 3, 1986 in Los Angeles, California, growing up in Santa Monica. Sina decided on a career in comic books in elementary school, when he would copy Batman stories and draw them himself on printer paper. Grace extended his passion for comic books throughout high school, interning for Top Cow Comics after school prior to enrolling at the University of California-Santa Cruz, majoring in Creative Writing.[1]

Career

After graduating from UC Santa Cruz,[2] Grace illustrated Among The Ghosts[3] for Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Amber Benson, and soon after became Editorial Director,[4][5] and the very first employee, for Robert Kirkham's Skybound Comics.[6] While at Skybound, Grace worked on titles such as The Walking Dead and Invincible,[7] while simultaneously providing artwork for the Image Comics series Lil’ Depressed Boy[8] with S. Steven Struble.[9]

Upon his departure from Skybound, Grace embarked on a journey of self-discovery, writing and doing artwork for the one-off releases Not My Bag [10] (2012) and Self-Obsessed [11] (2014), both published and released via Image Comics.[11][12] Grace also released the video game send-up series Burn The Orphanage[13] with Daniel Freedman, as well with Image Comics.[13] During this time Grace would also produce a web-series based on his work in Self-Obsessed,[14] along with providing artwork for musician and actress Jenny Lewis.[15] Grace would culminate his series of memoirs with Nothing Lasts Forever[16] in 2017, published once again by Image Comics.[16]

In 2017 Grace was hired by Marvel Comics to write the first series for long-running character Iceman[1] who had recently come out.[17] Despite the series being cancelled after 11 issues in March 2018,[18] sales and fan support where so overwhelming that the series returned for another run [19] culminating in a reboot and another 5 series arc ending in January 2019.[19] After his run with Marvel had ended, Grace posted an essay outlining his experiences working for Marvel on his personal Tumblr account.[20] Among the topics within the essay, Grace has stated that he felt a lack of support for LGBTQIA+[21] content and its creators, as well as turning a blind eye when the creator was attacked online for his work celebrating a major queer storyline[22]

Grace is currently working on several titles, including writing Jughead's Time Police for Archie Comics,[23] co-writing Go Go Power Rangers for BOOM! Comics,[24] and writing his own original series Ghosted in L.A.[25] for BOOM! Comics.

Bibliography

Skybound Comics

  • The Walking Dead #79-102 (2010-2012), editor
  • Invincible #70-92 (2010-2012), editor
  • Super Dinosaur #1-10 (2010-2012), editor
  • Witch Doctor #1-6 (2010-2012), editor
  • Guarding The Globe #1-6 (2010-2012), editor
  • Thief of Thieves #1-9 (2010-2012), editor

Image Comics

  • Li’l Depressed Boy #1-21 (2011-Current), artist
  • Not My Bag One-Shot (2012), writer and artist
  • Burn The Orphanage (2013-2014), co-writer and artist
  • Self Obsessed (2014), writer and artist
  • Penny Dora and the Wishing Box #1-5 (2015), artist
  • Nothing Lasts Forever (2017), writer and artist

Marvel Comics

  • All New X-Men Annual (2015), writer
  • Secret Wars Journal #4 (2015), writer
  • Iceman (2017) #1-11 (2017-2018), writer
  • The Merry X-Men Holiday Special (2018), writer
  • Infinity Wars: Infinity Warps #2 (2018), writer
  • Iceman (2018) #1-5 (2018-2019), writer

BOOM! Comics

  • Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers 25th Anniversary Special (2018) writer, artist
  • Go Go Power Rangers #21-Current (2019-Current), co-writer
  • Ghosted in L.A. #1-Current (2019-Current), writer

IDW

  • Jem and the Holograms IDW 20/20 One-Shot (2019), writer
  • Jem and the Holograms: Dimensions #4 (2018), writer

References
  1. Livni, Ephrat. "The Middle-Eastern American writer behind Marvel's Iceman, the most visible gay superhero yet". Quartz.
  2. Ciriaco, Michael (July 29, 2017). "L.A. Native Comic Book Author Sina Grace Has Hit It Big Penning Marvel's Openly Gay Iceman". LA Weekly.
  3. "Sina Grace: The Man With Ice In His Veins". Comic Lounge.
  4. "Sina Grace". Walking Dead Wiki.
  5. "SINA GRACE | Tucson Comic-Con". www.tucsoncomic-con.com.
  6. "The Top Five Reasons Why This is Sina Grace's Spring [Interview]". Multiversity Comics. March 10, 2014.
  7. Nisen, Jeremy. "Sina Grace". undertheradarmag.com.
  8. "The Li'l Depressed Boy". Image Comics.
  9. Horne, Karama (June 14, 2019). "Indie Comics Spotlight: Sina Grace on Jughead, mutant drag queens, and ghost sex". SYFY WIRE.
  10. "Committed: NOT MY BAG - Sina's Scathing Fashion Comic Interview". www.cbr.com.
  11. "Sina Grace is SELF-OBSESSED". Image Comics.
  12. "Self-Obsessed One-Shot". Image Comics.
  13. "Burn The Orphanage". Image Comics.
  14. "Get 'Self-Obsessed' With New Comic Webseries (Exclusive Trailer)". The Hollywood Reporter.
  15. "Exclusive: Jenny Lewis & Sina Grace Team Up for "Girl On Girl" ACLU/Planned Parenthood Benefit Print". pastemagazine.com. May 5, 2017.
  16. "Nothing Lasts Forever". Image Comics.
  17. "All-New X-Men #40 uses the superhero genre to ask big questions about identity". AUX.
  18. Terror, Jude (December 20, 2017). "And Now Iceman is Confirmed Canceled Too". Bleeding Cool News And Rumors.
  19. Gustines, George Gene (June 28, 2018). "Iceman Came Out. Now He's Coming Back in His Own Series" – via NYTimes.com.
  20. "As Pride Month comes to a close, it's time I spoke candidly about my experience at Marvel Comics". SINA GRACE.
  21. "Iceman Writer Sina Grace Reveals Struggle With Marvel Comics Over Book". CBR. June 28, 2019.
  22. https://www.themarysue.com/iceman-sina-grace-calls-out-marvel-not-supporting-lgbtq-comics/
  23. C, Ron (February 15, 2019). "JUGHEAD'S TIME POLICE returns to the future in June from Sina Grace and Derek Charm". Archie Comics.
  24. "Sina Grace On Joining Go Go Power Rangers". Den of Geek.
  25. "Sina Grace & Siobhan Keenan Get Ghosted in LA from BOOM! Studios". pastemagazine.com. March 29, 2019.
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