Aminder Dhaliwal author page

Aminder Dhaliwal biography

Aminder Dhaliwal is a comics creator and animator from Brampton, Ontario. She received a Bachelors of Animation from Sheridan College. Her animation work has included roles as Director at Disney TV Animation, Storyboard Director at Cartoon Network, and Storyboard Director on the Nickelodeon show Sanjay and Craig.

Dhaliwal created Woman World as a biweekly online comic from March 2017. The book edition of Woman World was published by Drawn & Quarterly on 11 September 2018, with 256 pages and an age range of 14 years. The story imagines a future in which men have disappeared and follows a community of women rebuilding society under the flag of “Beyonce’s Thighs”. Woman World was nominated for an Ignatz Award for Outstanding Online Comic.

Dhaliwal’s graphic novel Cyclopedia Exotica follows a cyclops community navigating xenophobia, fetishisation and media misrepresentation. Its scenes include doctors’ waiting rooms, commercials, dog parks and dating-app screenshots to show the experiences and interior lives of cyclops characters. Cyclopedia Exotica was published on 11 May 2021.