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Erica Henderson
Erica Henderson is an American three-time Eisner Award-winning comics artist and animator, known for her work on The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl and Jughead, and for her animation work on Venture Bros.
Henderson was born in New York. Her mother works in the fashion industry, and her father is the late horror and detective fiction author C. J. Henderson, who exposed her to comics and adult science fiction from a young age. She was a fan of Archie Comics, and names Dan DeCarlo and Samm Schwartz among her earliest influences for their distinctive styles. She was also a fan of the DC Comics series Young Heroes in Love, which showed her how superheroes could be adapted into different genres and story types.
Henderson graduated from Rhode Island School of Design.
During the break between her junior and sophomore year in college, Henderson worked as an intern for World Leaders Entertainment, where she worked on the third season of the animated television series Venture Bros. She began her work on that program doing storyboards for animatics, which involved preparing backgrounds by converting background artist Denny Finkel's line drawings into Flash animation so that they could then be sent to Korea to be painted. It was her first time using a Cintiq drawing tablet. That season would later premiere in June 2008.
The following year, during the break between her sophomore and junior year, Henderson worked on the live-action film Underdog, which was released in 2007. Henderson contributed guest comics to Sluggy Freelance in 2007 and 2008.
Henderson later worked as an art director in the video game industry.
Henderson illustrated Marvel Comics' Squirrel Girl for its first 37 issues before leaving the series in March 2018, although she continued to illustrate the series' covers. Graeme Virtue of The Guardian praised her artwork on the series, describing it as "gorgeous" and better than the other contents produced by Marvel at the time.
Henderson reunited with Squirrel Girl writer Ryan North to create a YA graphic novel titled Danger and Other Unknown Risks. This graphic novel was described as a "dystopian fantasy" and was published in April 2023 by Penguin Teen.
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Erica Henderson
Erica Henderson is an American three-time Eisner Award-winning comics artist and animator, known for her work on The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl and Jughead, and for her animation work on Venture Bros.
Henderson was born in New York. Her mother works in the fashion industry, and her father is the late horror and detective fiction author C. J. Henderson, who exposed her to comics and adult science fiction from a young age. She was a fan of Archie Comics, and names Dan DeCarlo and Samm Schwartz among her earliest influences for their distinctive styles. She was also a fan of the DC Comics series Young Heroes in Love, which showed her how superheroes could be adapted into different genres and story types.
Henderson graduated from Rhode Island School of Design.
During the break between her junior and sophomore year in college, Henderson worked as an intern for World Leaders Entertainment, where she worked on the third season of the animated television series Venture Bros. She began her work on that program doing storyboards for animatics, which involved preparing backgrounds by converting background artist Denny Finkel's line drawings into Flash animation so that they could then be sent to Korea to be painted. It was her first time using a Cintiq drawing tablet. That season would later premiere in June 2008.
The following year, during the break between her sophomore and junior year, Henderson worked on the live-action film Underdog, which was released in 2007. Henderson contributed guest comics to Sluggy Freelance in 2007 and 2008.
Henderson later worked as an art director in the video game industry.
Henderson illustrated Marvel Comics' Squirrel Girl for its first 37 issues before leaving the series in March 2018, although she continued to illustrate the series' covers. Graeme Virtue of The Guardian praised her artwork on the series, describing it as "gorgeous" and better than the other contents produced by Marvel at the time.
Henderson reunited with Squirrel Girl writer Ryan North to create a YA graphic novel titled Danger and Other Unknown Risks. This graphic novel was described as a "dystopian fantasy" and was published in April 2023 by Penguin Teen.