Breena Nuñez is a cartoonist and adjunct part-time professor living in San Francisco, CA. She creates diary comics that often explore themes surrounding the awkwardness of racism, being a queer Afrodescendiente from the Bay Area, and understanding what it means to be Central American from the US. Their hope as a cartoonist & educator is to help BIPOC folks give themselves permission to express their personal stories through the language of comics.
Breena’s comics are primarily self-published as zines through the family run small press she co-founded with her husband, Laneha House. You will also find some comics in other publications such as The New Yorker: Daily Shouts and The Nib, as well as in anthologies like Tales From La Vida: A Latinx Comics Anthology, Drawing Power (Eisner Award Winner 2020), and Be Gay, Do Comics! (Ignatz Award Winner 2020).
Press & Interviews:
CultureStrike
Fierce Mitú (one piece authored by Alán Pelaez Lopez and another by Stephanie Ginese),
Taco Talk with Julio Salgado
Huffington Post
Prime Vice
Colorlines
The Beat
Remezcla
The Baylies
KQED: Rightnowish
Clients:
The Nib, The New Yorker, Chapter 510 & the Department of Make Believe, The Center of Cultural Power, Cartoon Network (Summer Camp Island)