Amanda Conner (Author of Harley Quinn, Volume 1)

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Amanda Conner

Born

in Los Angeles, The United States

August 18, 1967

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Genre

Comics, Graphic Novels

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Amanda Conner started out in comics working small projects for Marvel and Archie while working as an illustrator for New York ad agencies Kornhauser and Calene and Kidvertisers. working a number of launches and campaigns such as Arm & Hammer, PlaySchool and Nickelodeon.

However, loving comic books and cartooning the most, Amanda found herself working for Marvel on their Barbie line (much of Amanda鈥檚 covers inspired designs for the line of Barbie toys), Disney line which included the Gargoyles books. At the same time she was illustrating 鈥淪oul Searchers & Co.鈥� for Claypool Comics and worked on other Marvel projects, such as Excalibur for the X-Men line and 鈥淪uburban Jersey Ninja She-Devils鈥�.

During an assignment for Crusade (鈥楾omoe鈥�) she and J Amanda Conner started out in comics working small projects for Marvel and Archie while working as an illustrator for New York ad agencies Kornhauser and Calene and Kidvertisers. working a number of launches and campaigns such as Arm & Hammer, PlaySchool and Nickelodeon.

However, loving comic books and cartooning the most, Amanda found herself working for Marvel on their Barbie line (much of Amanda鈥檚 covers inspired designs for the line of Barbie toys), Disney line which included the Gargoyles books. At the same time she was illustrating 鈥淪oul Searchers & Co.鈥� for Claypool Comics and worked on other Marvel projects, such as Excalibur for the X-Men line and 鈥淪uburban Jersey Ninja She-Devils鈥�.

During an assignment for Crusade (鈥楾omoe鈥�) she and Jimmy Palmiotti became a real team as penciller/inker.

Amanda then moved on to do what is probably one of her best known works. She did several years as penciller on the hit series 鈥淰ampirella鈥� for Harris Comics and drafted 24 issues. While illustrating 鈥淰ampirella鈥�, Amanda worked with the top writers in the field, Grant Morrison, Mark Millar and Warren Ellis.

Continuing to expand her horizons, Amanda illustrated the best-selling crossover 鈥淧ainkiller Jane vs. the Darkness鈥�, and went on to work on 鈥淧ainkiller Jane鈥� #0 (the origin book). She also wrote and illustrated a story for 鈥淜id Death and Fluffy鈥�.

Since then, Amanda has worked on many of the top titles in comics such as 鈥淟ois Lane鈥�, 鈥淐odename: Knockout鈥�, and 鈥淏irds of Prey鈥� for D.C. Comics Vertigo line, 鈥淴-Men Unlimited鈥� for Marvel, co-created 鈥淕atecrasher鈥� for Blackbull Comics, and 鈥淭he Pro鈥�, an Eisner nominated creator owned book for Image Comics with Jimmy Palmiotti and Garth Ennis. Recently she worked on the highly publicized Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre series with Eisner winning creator Darwyn Cooke.

Amanda鈥檚 work can also be seen outside the comic book community in such places as ABC鈥橲 Nightline, the New York Times, Mad Magazine, the new sci-fi Stan lee 鈥淪o You Want to be a Superhero鈥� series and the upcoming Disney Underdog movie character designs for film and television, character designs for the Los Angeles Avengers stadium football team and is featured in a Biography magazine commercial on A&E. Amanda does spot illustrations in 鈥淩evolver鈥� magazine each month and has had a huge success with the JSA Powergirl miniseries in previous years, each issue going into 3rd printings.

She continuously produces cover work for Marvel Comics, DC Comics and an assortment of independent titles.

With PaperFilms co-founder Jimmy Palmiotti, they are currently working on the highly received Harley Quinn series and other Harley Quinn related titles for DC Comics, in addition to several upcoming DC related projects. Garnering national attention and sales results, the team continues to receive accolades for their work on these titles. The new relaunch of Harley Quinn for DC in the Rebirth line garnered an estimated 250,000 copies ordered. ...more

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Average rating: 3.84 · 70,832 ratings · 7,253 reviews · 773 distinct works 鈥� Similar authors

	Harley Quinn, Volume 1: Hot in the City by Amanda Conner (Writer/Illustrator), Jimmy Palmiotti (Writer), Chad Hardin (Illustrator) 3.95 avg rating — 7,386 ratings — published 2014 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harley Quinn, Volume 2: Power Outage by Amanda Conner (Writer/Illustrator), Jimmy Palmiotti, Chad Hardin (Illustrator) 3.86 avg rating — 3,099 ratings — published 2015 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harley Quinn, Volume 3: Kiss Kiss Bang Stab by Amanda Conner (Writer/Illustrator), Jimmy Palmiotti (Writer), Chad Hardin (Illustrator) 4.02 avg rating — 2,089 ratings — published 2015 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harley Quinn, Vol. 1: Die Laughing by Amanda Conner (Writer/Illustrator), Jimmy Palmiotti (Writer), Chad Hardin (Illustrator) 3.49 avg rating — 1,882 ratings — published 2017 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harley Quinn (2013-2016) #1 by Amanda Conner (Writer/Cover), Jimmy Palmiotti, Chad Hardin (Illustrator) 4.23 avg rating — 1,446 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harley Quinn, Volume 4: A Call to Arms by Amanda Conner (Writer), Jimmy Palmiotti 3.86 avg rating — 1,275 ratings — published 2016 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harley Quinn (2013-2016) #0 by Amanda Conner (Writer/Illustrator), Charlie Adlard (Artist), Art Baltazar (Artist) 4.20 avg rating — 1,106 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harley Quinn, Volume 5: The Joker's Last Laugh by Amanda Conner (Writer/Illustrator), Jimmy Palmiotti 4.05 avg rating — 1,035 ratings — published 2016 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harley Quinn (2013-2016) #2 by Amanda Conner (Writer/Cover), Jimmy Palmiotti, Chad Hardin (Illustrator) 4.31 avg rating — 874 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harley Quinn and Power Girl by Amanda Conner (Writer), Jimmy Palmiotti, St茅phane Roux (Illustrator) 3.51 avg rating — 1,071 ratings — published 2016 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Amanda Conner

Harley Quinn (2013) (Single Issues) (35 books)
by

Amanda Conner (Writer/Cover),

Chad Hardin (Artist)

4.01 avg rating — 27,520 ratings

Harley Quinn (2013) (6 books)
by

Amanda Conner (Writer),

Jimmy Palmiotti (Writer),

John Timms (Illustrator),

Chad Hardin (Illustrator),

Elsa Charretier (Illustrator),

Moritat (Illustrator)

3.91 avg rating — 16,711 ratings

Harley Quinn (2016) (Single Issues) (76 books)
by

Amanda Conner,

Jimmy Palmiotti,

Alex Sinclair (Colorist),

John Timms (Penciller)

3.66 avg rating — 8,533 ratings

Harley Quinn and Power Girl (6 books)
by

Amanda Conner (Writer/Cover),

Jimmy Palmiotti,

Justin Gray (欧宝娱乐 Author),

Paul Mounts (Colorist),

St茅phane Roux (Penciller)

3.64 avg rating — 1,753 ratings

Harley's Little Black Book (6 books)
by

Amanda Conner (Writer/Cover),

Jimmy Palmiotti,

Alex Sinclair (Cover Art),

Paul Mounts (Cover Art),

Simon Bisley (Penciller)

3.92 avg rating — 1,213 ratings

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Quotes by Amanda Conner (?)

“If you don't think I'm a princess then you're 100% right, I'm the fucking queen.”
― Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti

tags: antihero, harley-quinn, queen

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“We were fightin' together...side by side, against the evils a' mankind.”
― Amanda Conner, Harley's Little Black Book

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