Dori Seda

Dori Seda (1951–February 25, 1988) was an artist best known for her underground comic book work of the 1980s. Her comics combined exaggerated fantasy and ribald humor with documentation of her life in the Mission District of San Francisco.

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Seda was originally a painter and ceramics artist; to pursue her interest in comics, she took a job as a bookkeeper at the San Francisco publisher Last Gasp. Her first published comics work appeared in Robert Crumb's anthology magazine Weirdo in 1981. She was subsequently published in Wimmen's Comix, San Francisco Comic Book, Viper, Yellow Silk, Prime Cuts, Cannibal Romance, Weird Smut Comix, Tits & Clits, and her solo book Lonely Nights Comics.

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A heavy smoker who suffered from emphysema and may also have contracted silicosis from her ceramics materials, Seda died at age 37 from respiratory failure after catching the flu.

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Her work has been collected in the book Dori Stories (ISBN 0-86719-375-1). The book also includes a number of memorial tributes, including the story "Dori Bangs" by Bruce Sterling, which imagines a future marriage between her and Lester Bangs (whom she never met).

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1951: 1951 was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar....

February 25: February 25 is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 309 days remaining, 310 in leap years....

1988: 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar....