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Melinda Gebbie is a comics artist and writer, probably best known for Lost Girls, the three-volume graphic novel she has recently completed in collaboration with writer Alan Moore, published by Top Shelf.

Melinda Gebbie, born in San Francisco, discovered comics in 1973, when she met writer/artist Lee Marrs at a publishers' fair. Gebbie, formerly a fine artist, contributed her first comic strip to Wimmen's Comix #3, the seminal all-women anthology published by Last Gasp. She wrote and drew short stories for Wimmen's Comix and many other anthologies, including Tits & Clits, Wet Satin, and Anarchy. In 1977 she completed her own solo book, Fresca Zizis.

In 1984 she moved to England to work on the animated film adaptation of Raymond Briggs' When the Wind Blows. Following this, she worked in a variety of illustration and office jobs and continued making short stories for anthologies such as Strip AIDS and Heartbreak Hotel. During this time she was briefly involved in an obscenity trial when Knockabout Comics was prosecuted by HM Customs over the importation of 'pornographic' comics, including Gebbie's comic book Fresca Zizis. The verdict was that all the comics should be confiscated and burned; Fresca Zizis was made illegal to possess in the UK.

Gebbie is also co-creator with Alan Moore of Cobweb, a character who appeared in twelve issues of Tomorrow Stories between 1999 and 2002.

• Lost Girls Collected - with Alan Moore, writer. (Top Shelf Productions, 2006) ISBN 1-891830-74-0
• Fresca Zizis (Last Gasp Publishing, 1977)

Anthologies

• Cobweb - with Alan Moore, writer. In Tomorrow Stories, #1-12, (ABC Comics/Wildstorm, 1999-2002)
• Heartbreak Hotel
• Strip AIDS
• "The Cockpit" in Wet Satin #1(Last Gasp Publishing)
• "My Three Swans" in Young Lust #7(Last Gasp Publishing)
• Wimmen's Comix, #'s 4-7 (Last Gasp Publishing)
• Anarchy (Last Gasp Publishing)

• wimmen's comix
• interview with Melinda Gebbie
• SuicideGirls.com Interviews with Melinda Gebbie on Lost Girls