DIONNE CO is a Chinese-Filipino Canadian writer, illustrator, cartoonist, social researcher and settler based on the ancestral and unceded homelands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.

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.

As part of her artistic practice, Dionne runs a micro-press that prints and publishes zines, books, posters and various graphic ephemera. She graduated with a Master’s of Urban Studies from Simon Fraser University and lives in East Vancouver with her partner and two dogs. She enjoys reading novels.