Roberta Gregory has been writing and drawing comics all her life, since her father, Robert Gregory, used to write Donald Duck comics for Disney while she was growing up. At an early age she was sticking word balloons over the heads of the dogs and cats and horses she would draw, and would staple little comic books together and sell them to members of her family. In high school, she created hundreds of pages of comics and may have been the first to create a queer comic book character, in 1969, though what little remains of the art is FAR too dreadful to show to anybody now! Anyhow, she figured the comics she created were FAR too weird to interest anyone but herself.
When she got to college, the womens movement had just begun, and she experimented with many different styles in the college humor paper before creating the Feminist Funnies strip in 1974. She sold her first story to Wimmens Comix that year, also, and though it really wasn't that good, they were starving for some Queer Content so her career in the underground began! She expanded the Feminist Funnies strip to the Dynamite Damsels comic, which she self-published in 1976, becoming officially the first woman to solo self-publish from Joyce Farmer and Lyn Chevli of the Nanny Goat Productions collective. She appeared a few times in their title, Tits and Clits, and a couple more times in Wimmens Comix in the 70's and when Gay Comix appeared in 1980, she was in nearly every one of those issues as well, since the editor, Howard Cruse, wanted to have women represented and there were very few dykes doing comics back then.
During the middle 80's, she began work on Winging It, a very ambitous project, and on Sheila and the Unicorn, both of which she published in 1988. She moved to Seattle in 1989 and worked full time at Fantagraphics Books, and working with Robert Crumb's material inspired the story which begins the first issue of Naughty Bits, "Crazy Bitches." She began Artistic Licentiousness at this time, as well. The first issue was published by Starhead Comix, but she published the remaining two issues herself in 1994 and 1997. The quarterly series, Naughty Bits, unleashed Bitchy Bitch (and later, Bitchy Butch) on an unsuspecting world and spun off into three stage productions and a weekly strip, as well as a doll (sadly, it is no longer available)! Roberta is so busy, even she loses track of all the projects she has been involved in: Bitchy has been translated into German and, soon, into Chinese and Swedish. Roberta's modest career has sent her to such places as Sarawak, Singapore, Helsinki and Portugal, and she continues to be kept busy by muses that just won't quit; in fact it is probably a safe bet to assume that right now she is quite a bit behind schedule on whatever current issue of Naughty Bits she is working on, so be patient! She lives in Seattle Washinton, in a lavishly cluttered basement suite which she shares with her handsome and very independent kitty, Pushkin.
Roberta Gregory has been writing and drawing comics all her life, since her father, Robert Gregory, used to write Donald Duck comics for Disney while she was growing up. At an early age she was sticking word balloons over the heads of the dogs and cats and horses she would draw, and would staple little comic books together and sell them to members of her family. In high school, she created hundreds of pages of comics and may have been the first to create a queer comic book character, in 1969, though what little remains of the art is FAR too dreadful to show to anybody now! Anyhow, she figured the comics she created were FAR too weird to interest anyone but herself. 
