Maria Sweeney
Maria Sweeney
Maria Sweeney is a Moldova-born, United States-based freelance illustrator and comic artist. Her autobiographical comic Brittle Joints won a Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo Mini-Grant in 2018 and was featured Fantagraphics: The Comics Journal and Comic Con’s panel, “Truth is a Superpower.” Her educational mini-comic, The Straw Ban won an outstanding submission for the 2019 Locher Memorial Awards.
She writes and self-publishes comics relating to her experience of navigating the world with a rare disability. When she’s not reading or sketching comics, she’s snuggling with her tiny dog, Bambi.
Brittle Joints
Brittle Joints is a collection of autobiographical stories living with very rare disability. Autobiographical vignettes demonstrate the sometimes uncomfortable, and often unspoken aspects of a disability, as well as the “good days” that gave the most autonomy and independence. Short stories include topics about navigating relationships, social struggles, transportation, lack of accessibility and commonly misunderstood elements of disability culture. Other stories seek to capture the mental strains that accompanies living with a physically-restricting disability. Brittle Joints is an effort to shed light on disabled representation in literature and comics alike. Brittle Joints won a Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo Mini-Grant in 2018.
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