Melanie Gillman is an American queer non-binary cartoonist, illustrator, and lecturer, specializing in LGBTQ comics for Young Adult readers, including the webcomic As the Crow Flies.
[7] Gillman began teaching Professional Practices at the California College of the Arts (CCA) in 2015, and was later appointed Senior Lecturer in Comics.
[9] Gillman's first graphic novel Smbitten – about lesbians, swing-dancing, fancy hats, and vampires – was produced as part of their Masters thesis at the Center for Cartoon Studies.
[10] In 2012 they began As the Crow Flies,[11] a webcomic about a 13-year-old African American queer girl who finds herself at an all-white Christian backpacking camp.
[17] Gillman was co-editor with Kori Michele Handwerker and a contributor to The Other Side,[18] an anthology of 19 queer paranormal romance comics published in 2016.