Mayday Trippe
Mayday "Dean" Trippe is a United States-based comic book artist and illustrator. Trippe graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a B.F.A. in Sequential Art in 2003. Work. Trippe's early published work includes contributions to several comic anthologies, including "You Ain't No Dancer" and the 2005 "FLUKE Anthology", as well as coloring for various publishers, including Viper Comics' "The Middleman" and Oni Press's "Ghost Projekt". Their primary work to date is the webcomic "Butterfly". Along with Jamie Dee Galey, Trippe was also one of the instigators of the 2005 Batgirl Livejournal  Meme, which grew into a phenomenon of over 1000 artists contributing their own unique renditions of DC Comics' Batgirl. Trippe is known for their stylish redesigns of popular American superhero characters. With writer Chris Arrant, they co-founded "Project: Rooftop", a website devoted to original redesigns of classic American comic book characters. Trippe collaborated with fellow comics creator Jason Horn on the short story, "Merman," for Image Comics' "Comic Book Tattoo", the Eisner and Harvey Award-winning anthology graphic novel inspired by the songs of musician Tori Amos. Trippe's later published the graphic novel "Power Lunch: Book 1: First  Course", with writer J. Torres, for Oni Press. Trippe started a Kickstarter campaign in 2014 to publish "Something Terrible", an autobiographical comic about child abuse and sexual violence. The work was distributed by Iron Circus Comics. In September 2015, Trippe illustrated the cover of the scientific journal Nature, in which he designed a team of superheroes representing areas of knowledge (economics, psychology, astronomy, quantum mechanics, medicine, computer science, and Evolutionary biology) that also is used in an editorial and a special issue. Trippe also illustrated a variant for another article within the issue. Private life. Trippe came out as non -binary in 2021.