Mary Fleener is an American cartoonist, writer and musician from Los Angeles. After quitting art school in 1976, Fleener pursued a career as both a rock singer and a visual artist. She entered the world of alternative comics in 1984, initially self-publishing mini-comics. Her cartooning style often draws inspiration from cubism and other art traditions. Her first book was Hoodoo (1988), a comic about writer Zora Neale Hurston. Her semi-autobiographical Slutburger series run for five issues from 1990 to 1995, followed by the three issues of Fleener from 1996 to 1997. Other short comics have appeared in magazines and anthologies, like 'Weirdo, 'Twisted Sisters' and 'Wimmen's Comix', to then be collected in books, most notably Life of the Party (1996, Fantagraphics Books).