M. Sabine Rear 

... is a cartoonist and zine-maker, and the cute blind lady you gave your seat to on the bus. 

Her work addresses disability, embodied politics, and public space, and seeks to trouble distinctions between "high" and "low" culture. She also enjoys drawing cool babes having fun and pro wrestlers. 

Sabine is the core faculty instructor of the Comics Portfolio Program at the Independent Publishing Resource Center, as well as a graduate of the program in 2017. Her thesis comic for the program, Reverse Flaneur, was nominated for a 2017 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Self-Published Mini Comic. 

Her comic on blindness and classroom practices, "Empathy Exercise" was presented as a lightning talk at the 2017 Comics & Medicine conference in Seattle, WA. 

Sabine’s comics have been published by Vox, Cosmopolitan and Believer Magazine, as well as various community and collaborative publications. She has helped to organize the Portland Zine Symposium since 2018.

Her writing has appeared in Bitch Media and her academic work on pornography for the blind was featured at the 2015 Society for Disability Studies conference in Atlanta, GA as well as the Pacific and Western Disability Studies Symposium in Seattle, WA. 

To commission, collaborate, or chit-chat, contact Sabine here. 

Please be sure to tell her about your favorite pro wrestler.