Shannon Durbin is a Los Angeles-based comic artist who grew up in the Pacific Northwest. She is the writer and artist of “niteswimming,” a coming-of-age comic series about high schoolers Anne and Lo navigating misadventures, religious cults, and busted romances against the backdrop of grunge, punk rock, and the AIDS crisis in the outskirts of 90’s Seattle.

Shannon earned her B.F.A. from ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, CA. She is a member of the DoP comics collective. Her work can be found here, at small press events, and is distributed by Semiotext(e).