About

Raised in a family of Holocaust survivors, Joanne Starer is a firm believer in equality for all people and hopes to make the world just a little bit brighter through her writing. She spreads her unique brand of comedy with a conscience across a wide spectrum of themes, including pro-wrestling, the Holocaust, abortion, and modern romance. Starer is best known for her work on Fire & Ice: Welcome to Smallville with DC Comics, Sirens of the City with Boom Studios, Total Suplex of the Heart with Life Drawn, and The Gimmick with Ahoy Comics. In 2023, Joanne worked with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History to create educational comic murals for Cellphone: Unseen Connections, a multi-year installation.

Outside of her publishing pursuits, she owned and operated a women’s wrestling promotion in Pennsylvania back in 2002, championing equality in pro-wrestling a decade before it became a nationwide trend. 

Originally from New York, Joanne now resides in Vienna, Austria, with one very demanding cat and too many action figures to count.