[4] She attended the University of California, Santa Cruz as an art major in the 1970s[1] where she was part of the Graphic Stories Guild with Mark Clegg, another comics artist.
While at Santa Cruz, Bocage also participated in the creation of fanzines Slug Tesserae and Amoeba Earhart Flyer.
[4][1] She also worked as a graphics editor for AIDS News Service, the organization that also published her comic (Nice Girls Don't Talk About) Sex, Religion, and Politics.
[10] In 1991, Bocage contributed an essay to The Comics Journal titled, "Define the Terms, Dismiss the Dregs, and Enjoy the Results: A Feminist's Case for Pornography.
Artists featured in Real Girl: Issue #7 (Aug. 1994) of Real Girl was a "flip book" that introduced RealTalk, a four-issue comic book series co-edited by Isabella Bannerman, Ann Decker, and Sabrina Jones that was published by Fantagraphics in 1995–1996.