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Gina Biggs
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Gina Biggs is a freelance artist and comic creator currently residing in the Atlanta, Georgia area. She has been creating comics for over ten years and has run the indy comic publishing group, StrawberryComics.com, since 2004. Strawberry Comics is an all-female group of creators banding together to help promote women in the comic industry as well as the neglected and often overlooked genre of love and romance in the medium.
Gina's current works include Red String, Erstwhile, and Love of Sausage. Red String is a romantic webcomic series that started in 2003 and continues to update three times a week. It is published by Dark Horse Comics. Erstwhile adapts lesser known Grimm's fairy tales into comic form. Gina works with another member of Strawberry Comics on this project, Louisa Roy. Together, they illustrate the series. And finally, Love of Sausage is an autobiographical tale of the love and loss in pet ownership.
Through her works Gina emotes a sense of warmth and kindness. She strives to bring emotional depth to the characters in her stories and shows a kind of innocence in the worlds she creates.
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Printed Works
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Erstwhile ~ Short Tales Story adapted by: Gina Biggs, Illustrations by: Elle Skinner, Louisa Roy, Gina Biggs
Description: This issue contains three short stories, The Bird, the Mouse, & the Sausage (illustrated by Elle Skinner), The Old Man & his Grandson (illustrated by Louisa Roy), and The Little Shroud (illustrated by Gina Biggs). Three stories, three artist, each bringing their own personal flair and love of fairy tales to their work.
Pages: COLOR, 32 pgs
Rating: Y (Youth 10+)
Price: $6.00
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Erstwhile ~ The Farmer's Clever Daughter Story adaptation & Art by: Gina Biggs
Description: A poor farmer and his daughter discover a golden mortar in the land freshly bestowed upon them by the king, but the farmer finds himself thrown in jail when he cannot produce the matching pestle. The farmer's keen and kind-hearted daughter sets out to help her father and ends up queen of an entire kingdom, but that's only the half of it.
Pages: COLOR, 36 pgs
Rating: Y (Youth 10+)
Price: $6.00
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Erstwhile ~ Maid Maleen Story adaptationt by: Gina Biggs, Art by: Louisa Roy
Description: Maid Maleen is the story of a daughter of a mighty king. Her father rejected the offer of marriage from a prince she loved with all of her heart. Her unwillingness to let go of her love for the prince cost her seven years of her life locked away in a tower with no windows or doors. What will she find when she steps out into the world again?
Pages: COLOR, 36 pgs
Rating: Y (Youth 10+)
Price: $6.00
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Fractured Kisses (1-4) Story & Art by: Gina Biggs & various artists
Description: This series presents a variety of romance stories from the bittersweet to the lighthearted and comical. In this collection, the writers have each explored different aspects of love, all of which are sure to tug at your heartstrings. I contributed one complete story to each of the four volumes of Fractured Kisses; Pasokon (in Fractured Kisses 01), Deck the Halls (in Fractured Kisses 02), Special Little Nothing (in Fractured Kisses 03), Never Again (in Fractured Kisses 04).
Pages: B&W, 240 pgs
Rating: T (Teen 13+)
Price: $10.00
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Love of Sausage Story & Art by: Gina Biggs
Description: "Honey" and her husband "Dumpling" have brought home their new bundle of joy. However, that bundle is not a baby, but a miniature dachshund puppy. Little did they realize that this was just the beginning of a roller coaster of emotions. This comic collects the comedic first chapter originally released as a mini comic in 2005, a second chapter that is sure to pull at your heart-strings, and three pages of bonus strips never seen before!
Pages: B&W, 28 pgs
Rating: E (Everyone 6+)
Price: $4.00
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Red String volume 1 Story & Art by: Gina Biggs
Description: When first-year high school student Miharu Ogawa gets a call from her parents, telling her to come straight home from school, she prepares herself for the worst. After all, the last time her quirky restaurateur parents told her to come straight home she ended up as a contestant on a kiddy game show! But nothing she could ever have imagined could have prepared her for their "great news". . . Miharu is getting married! How's a spirited and independent teenager who has never even kissed a boy supposed to deal with suddenly having a fiancé she's never even met? And how will her feelings change when she finds out that there are other boys out there vying for her affection, and other girls ready and willing to take away the man she's not even sure she's ready for? With her family, friends, (and enemies!) to cope with, will Miharu even have the time to find out if the handsome, devoted Kazuo Fujiwara is really the man she is meant to be with, the man connected to her by the red string of destiny?
Pages: B&W, 184 pgs
Rating: Y (Youth 10+)
Price: $10.00
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Red String volume 2 Story & Art by: Gina Biggs
Description: Romantic high school student Miharu Ogawa believes that red strings of destiny tie lovers together forever, but a few hardened hearts around her feel that such bonds can be easily broken. Still struggling with the news of the arranged marriage that her parents lined up for her, Miharu begins to doubt her first instincts about Kazuo Fujiwara. After a rainy afternoon brings them together, Miharu finds that she has more in common with the salacious Makoto Yosue than she thought. Karen begins to vie for the heart of a boy who's promised to another, as memories of a past love torture her.
Pages: B&W, 200 pgs
Rating: Y (Youth 10+)
Price: $10.00
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Red String volume 3 Story & Art by: Gina Biggs
Description: With a dear friend moving to Tokyo, an arranged marriage pending, and a difficult teacher holding a grudge against her, Miharu Ogawa is having one of her worst semesters in school ever! Her friends aren't having an easy time, either. After breaking down and finally expressing her feelings to Fuuko, Maya seeks solace and advice from Karen-who isn't really an expert in love and is having her own relationship problems. "Lone Wolf" Hayashihara struggles with the fact that he's actually making friends, a new character--Jun Mataichi--arrives to stir up a little more confusion, and a snowy accident brings two bickering souls closer together.
Pages: B&W, 208 pgs
Rating: T (Teen 13+)
Price: $10.00
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Red String volume 4 Story & Art by: Gina Biggs
Description: If not for the help of her beloved fiance’s family, Miharu would never have been accepted into the prestegious Harusono High School. Surrounded by children of the elite, Miharu finds herself slowly changing to fit in. She must take extra care not to lose herself as she gets more involved in the pressures of Kazuo's world. The lone wolf, Eiji Hayashihara, has started cleaning up his act and has set his sights on the quiet and sweet Reika. Just as things seem to be heating up between them, Reika's long-time crush Hiroshi finally asks her out on a date. However, there might be more to this proposal than she could have expected. Meanwhile, Fuuko has been having her own adventures in Tokyo as she has been accepted into her new school's Film Club. Just as she feels she's starting to get over her heartbreak she gets an unexpected call from her first love, Maya.
Pages: B&W, 200 pgs
Rating: T (Teen 13+)
Price: $10.00
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Threads ~ Art Book 1 Art by: Gina Biggs
Description: Threads was the first art collection created for the Red String series. It brings you the color of the Red String world with a collection of old and new full-color illustrations. There are also six pages of guest art from some fabulous comic artists included in the book.
Pages: COLOR, 80 pgs
Rating: T (Teen 13+)
Price: $25.00
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Threads ~ Art Book 2 Art by: Gina Biggs
Description: Threads gives you a colorful look at Gina Biggs’ world of Red String with this illustrations collection. See the characters as you’ve never seen them before in vivid full-color. Also included are over thirty brand new illustrations created exclusively for this book.
Pages: COLOR, 80 pgs
Rating: T (Teen 13+)
Price: $25.00
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