Diane DiMassa

Diane DiMassa is an American artist best known for her contributions to the alternative, feminist comic book sphere. She is the creator of the comic-zine Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist, and has illustrated books such as Kathy Acker’s Pussycat Fever, Kate Bornstein’s My Gender Workbook, and Anne Fausto-Sterling’s Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality. She lives in Bridgeport, Connecticut and San Francisco, California.
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