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Amanda Conner

Born

in Los Angeles, The United States

August 18, 1967

Website

http://paperfilms.com/

Twitter

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Genre

Comics, Graphic Novels

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Amanda Conner started out in comics working small projects for Marvel and Archie while working as an illustrator for New York ad agencies Kornhauser and Calene and Kidvertisers. working a number of launches and campaigns such as Arm & Hammer, PlaySchool and Nickelodeon.

However, loving comic books and cartooning the most, Amanda found herself working for Marvel on their Barbie line (much of Amanda’s covers inspired designs for the line of Barbie toys), Disney line which included the Gargoyles books. At the same time she was illustrating “Soul Searchers & Co.” for Claypool Comics and worked on other Marvel projects, such as Excalibur for the X-Men line and “Suburban Jersey Ninja She-Devils”.

During an assignment for Crusade (‘Tomoe’) she and J Amanda Conner started out in comics working small projects for Marvel and Archie while working as an illustrator for New York ad agencies Kornhauser and Calene and Kidvertisers. working a number of launches and campaigns such as Arm & Hammer, PlaySchool and Nickelodeon.

However, loving comic books and cartooning the most, Amanda found herself working for Marvel on their Barbie line (much of Amanda’s covers inspired designs for the line of Barbie toys), Disney line which included the Gargoyles books. At the same time she was illustrating “Soul Searchers & Co.” for Claypool Comics and worked on other Marvel projects, such as Excalibur for the X-Men line and “Suburban Jersey Ninja She-Devils”.

During an assignment for Crusade (‘Tomoe’) she and Jimmy Palmiotti became a real team as penciller/inker.

Amanda then moved on to do what is probably one of her best known works. She did several years as penciller on the hit series “Vampirella” for Harris Comics and drafted 24 issues. While illustrating “Vampirella”, Amanda worked with the top writers in the field, Grant Morrison, Mark Millar and Warren Ellis.

Continuing to expand her horizons, Amanda illustrated the best-selling crossover “Painkiller Jane vs. the Darkness”, and went on to work on “Painkiller Jane” #0 (the origin book). She also wrote and illustrated a story for “Kid Death and Fluffy”.

Since then, Amanda has worked on many of the top titles in comics such as “Lois Lane”, “Codename: Knockout”, and “Birds of Prey” for D.C. Comics Vertigo line, “X-Men Unlimited” for Marvel, co-created “Gatecrasher” for Blackbull Comics, and “The Pro”, an Eisner nominated creator owned book for Image Comics with Jimmy Palmiotti and Garth Ennis. Recently she worked on the highly publicized Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre series with Eisner winning creator Darwyn Cooke.

Amanda’s work can also be seen outside the comic book community in such places as ABC’S Nightline, the New York Times, Mad Magazine, the new sci-fi Stan lee “So You Want to be a Superhero” series and the upcoming Disney Underdog movie character designs for film and television, character designs for the Los Angeles Avengers stadium football team and is featured in a Biography magazine commercial on A&E. Amanda does spot illustrations in “Revolver” magazine each month and has had a huge success with the JSA Powergirl miniseries in previous years, each issue going into 3rd printings.

She continuously produces cover work for Marvel Comics, DC Comics and an assortment of independent titles.

With PaperFilms co-founder Jimmy Palmiotti, they are currently working on the highly received Harley Quinn series and other Harley Quinn related titles for DC Comics, in addition to several upcoming DC related projects. Garnering national attention and sales results, the team continues to receive accolades for their work on these titles. The new relaunch of Harley Quinn for DC in the Rebirth line garnered an estimated 250,000 copies ordered. ...more

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Average rating: 3.83 · 75,339 ratings · 7,908 reviews · 793 distinct works • Similar authors

	Harley Quinn, Volume 1: Hot in the City by Amanda Conner (Writer/Illustrator), Jimmy Palmiotti (Writer), Chad Hardin (Illustrator) 3.95 avg rating — 7,539 ratings — published 2014 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harley Quinn, Volume 2: Power Outage by Amanda Conner (Writer/Illustrator), Jimmy Palmiotti, Chad Hardin (Illustrator) 3.86 avg rating — 3,175 ratings — published 2015 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harley Quinn, Volume 3: Kiss Kiss Bang Stab by Amanda Conner (Writer/Illustrator), Jimmy Palmiotti (Writer), Chad Hardin (Illustrator) 4.01 avg rating — 2,143 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harley Quinn, Vol. 1: Die Laughing by Amanda Conner (Writer/Covers), Jimmy Palmiotti (Writer), John Timms (Illustrator) 3.50 avg rating — 1,940 ratings — published 2017 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harley Quinn (2013-2016) #1 by Amanda Conner (Writer/Cover), Jimmy Palmiotti, Chad Hardin (Illustrator) 4.22 avg rating — 1,465 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harley Quinn, Volume 4: A Call to Arms by Amanda Conner (Writer), Jimmy Palmiotti 3.86 avg rating — 1,313 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harley Quinn (2013-2016) #0 by Amanda Conner (Writer/Illustrator), Charlie Adlard (Artist), Art Baltazar (Artist) 4.19 avg rating — 1,113 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harley Quinn, Volume 5: The Joker's Last Laugh by Amanda Conner (Writer/Illustrator), Jimmy Palmiotti 4.05 avg rating — 1,081 ratings — published 2016 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harley Quinn and Power Girl by Amanda Conner (Writer), Jimmy Palmiotti, Stéphane Roux (Illustrator) 3.52 avg rating — 1,130 ratings — published 2016 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harley Quinn (2013-2016) #2 by Amanda Conner (Writer/Cover), Jimmy Palmiotti, Chad Hardin (Illustrator) 4.30 avg rating — 882 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Harley Quinn (2013) (Single Issues) (35 books)
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Amanda Conner (Writer/Cover),

Chad Hardin (Artist)

3.98 avg rating — 29,245 ratings

Harley Quinn (2013) (6 books)
by

Amanda Conner (Writer),

Jimmy Palmiotti (Writer),

John Timms (Illustrator),

Chad Hardin (Illustrator),

Elsa Charretier (Illustrator),

Moritat (Illustrator)

3.91 avg rating — 17,165 ratings

Harley Quinn and Power Girl (6 books)
by

Amanda Conner (Writer/Cover),

Jimmy Palmiotti,

Justin Gray (Goodreads Author),

Paul Mounts (Colorist),

Stéphane Roux (Penciller)

3.65 avg rating — 1,818 ratings

Starfire (2015) (2 books)
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Amanda Conner (Writer),

Jimmy Palmiotti (Writer),

Elsa Charretier (Illustrator),

Emanuela Lupacchino (Illustrator),

Mirco Pierfederici (Illustrator),

Ray McCarthy (Illustrator),

Sean Parsons (Illustrator)

3.74 avg rating — 1,297 ratings

Harley's Little Black Book (6 books)
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Amanda Conner (Writer/Cover),

Jimmy Palmiotti,

Alex Sinclair (Cover Art),

Paul Mounts (Cover Art),

Simon Bisley (Penciller)

3.91 avg rating — 1,226 ratings

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“If you don't think I'm a princess then you're 100% right, I'm the fucking queen.”
― Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti

tags: antihero, harley-quinn, queen

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“We were fightin' together...side by side, against the evils a' mankind.”
― Amanda Conner, Harley's Little Black Book

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