DIONNE CO is a writer, printer and cartoonist based in Vancouver, B.C., on the unceded and ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

In 2026, she won the Herizons Magazine Feminist Comic Contest and was awarded a BC Arts Council Early Career Development Grant. Dionne is one-half of AC*DC Comics and works out of The James Black Gallery, where she is a studio member.

She graduated with a Master’s of Urban Studies from Simon Fraser University and is currently part of the fiction/non-fiction cohort in The Writer’s Studio. She lives in East Van with her partner and two dogs.

The Four Humours. Gouache, ink and pencil crayons on cold-pressed paper. 9” x 12”. 2025.

Through the language of comics and sequential storytelling, Dionne’s narrative and illustrative work is rooted in scenes of everyday life, exploring themes like alienation, intimacy, precarity, and the complexity of relationships between humans and the non-human world. Her work is undergirded by an understanding of how personal stories are shaped alongside social, political and historical contexts. The medium of comics is particularly useful for juxtaposing some of the heavier topics of her work, like trauma and grief, with the levity and humour inherent in her style and playful aesthetics. Equal parts writer and illustrator, Dionne’s work also engages with philosophical questions about the hybridity of comics as a medium and the relationship and distinction between words and images.

Dionne also runs Dialectical Comics a micro-press that prints and publishes zines, books, posters and various graphic ephemera as a part of her artistic practice. She has been running a book club since 2021.

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