Christine Shields was born in Mountain View,
California and grew up in various parts of Northern California around hippies and cowboys. She moved to
San Francisco when she was 17 and went to the San Francisco Art Institute, and has lived in San Francisco
off and on since 1987.
In the early 1990s Christine became involved in the thriving comics, zine and music
scenes in New York and San Francisco, producing her own comic, 'Blue Hole', as well as contributing to
many other publications such as 'Zero Zero' (Fantagraphics) and 'Top shelf under the big top' (Topshelf).
She did a page for a Ramones comic book that came in a box set that Rhino records put out in 2005. She has
been drawing as soon as she could pick up a pencil, but has returned to her old love of painting. Christine
Shields got a Xeric Foundation 1996 Comic Book Self-Publishing Grants for her book 'Blue Hole' in 1996.
