Ariel Bordeaux is an American alternative comics artist, painter, and writer. She is known for the confessional autobiographical mini-comics series Deep Girl and , the two-person split comic book she co-created with her husband, .
Bordeaux graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in 1991. She self-published five issues of Deep Girl from 1993 to 1995. Paper Rocket Minicomics collected all five issues in a book called The Complete Deep Girl in 2013.
In the mid-1990s, Bordeaux illustrated stories in Dennis Eichhorn's Real Stuff series, published by . She has contributed
to several anthologies including Measles, , and 's ., Bogus Dead, Stereoscomic,
Spicecapades, Dirty Stories,
On Our Butts; 's .
In 1996, she wrote a
romantic graphic novel called No Love Lost ().
Bordeaux and Deep Girl were nominated for the 1997 Kimberly Yale Award for Best New Talent (part of the ).
Bordeaux served on the 2003 jury.
In 2012, Bordeaux received her MFA from the . She currently works as a Special Collections Associate at
