Annie Mok

Annie Mok (b. 1986) is an intersex trans woman writer-artist, musician, and sometime filmmaker. Having grown up in Princeton, New Jersey, she attended a pre-college program at Manhattan’s School of Visual Arts in 2004; graduated with a BFA in Comic Art in 2009 from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, having given her class’s commencement speech; spent a couple of chaotic years in West Rogers Park, Chicago; and she’s now lived in Philadelphia since 2011, shuffling between South and West Philly and Fairmount, mostly due to being displaced from house to house thanks to gentrification, before finally settling in a three-story row home in the Kensington neighborhood with three wonderful roommates and a sweet, scared, smelly little dog named Domino. In 2008 she received a Xeric Foundation grant to edit, contribute to, and self-publish the benefit anthology for Minneapolis-St. Paul’s drug & alcohol abuse treatment facility RS Eden, Ghost Comics. Annie’s work has been published by Rookie Mag, DC/Vertigo, Image Comics, Seven Stories Press, St. Stephen’s Human Services and Homeless Against Homelessness, Boom! Studios’ Adventure Time Comics, The Comics Journal, The Nib, The Establishment, i09, Polygon, Rock Paper Shotgun, Funland, ZEAL, Offworld, Autostraddle, Fanbyte, Bandcamp Daily, Hazlitt, PEN America, Bitch Magazine, The Red Umbrella Project, 2D Cloud, Vox, Film & Fishnets, The Hairpin, Oni Press, and more. She has received the Leeway Foundation’s Art & Change Grant in 2013 and 2017, and the Leeway Transformation Award in 2014. Annie has toured with comics and music internationally in the US and Canada, having read her comic books in group readings organized by her and others in Montréal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Providence, Chicago, and Minneapolis. She has spoken at MCAD, the Rhode Island School of Design, and Oberlin and Swarthmore colleges. Her art has been featured in galleries at Moore College of Art & Design, Indy Hall, and The William Way LGBT Community Center.

Annie Mok is a writer & artist specializing in comic books, and a musician recording under the name the Knight Dreams. She’s a white/mixed intersex trans woman, of Irish, Chinese, Colombian, and pure colonizer descents (English, French, German). She is disabled and immunocompromised. Born in 1986 in Rochester, New York; and having grown up in Princeton/Princeton Junction, New Jersey; she graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design in 2009 as the graduating speaker. She then moved to West Rogers Park, Chicago for two years, before returning to the East Coast to Philadelphia in 2011, having spent that time being kicked out of many homes from slumlords selling the places out from under her and her housemates. She lives in East Kensington, Philly. Annie has worked for such outlets as Rookie Mag, DC/Vertigo, Image Comics, Bitch Magazine, Adventure Time Comics, The Red Umbrella Project, Film & Fishnets, and Polygon. She is also known for her insightful interviews with artists, game designers, and musicians on outlets like The Comics Journal, Rock Paper Shotgun, Funland Magazine, and Bandcamp Daily. Annie occasionally works in film, having costarred in the dystopian black & white indie Phaesporia (2018), and created and costarred in the adult semi-animated short film Allegheny Cemetery (2018), which toured internationally. In music, she fronted the groups See-Through Girls, Wolf Thistle, and How Soap Works, leading up to her mostly-solo project the Knight Dreams in which she plays electric ukulele, programs drums, and plays keys on her mechanical computer keyboard. Recently, Annie drew and designed Danica Uskert’s graphic memoir on hustling, disability, and broken love in Hollywood, Unsustainable, which ended up in a group show in the London Institute of Contemporary Arts entitled Decriminalized Futures from SWARM Collective, Sex Worker Advocacy and Resistance Movement. As a result, Annie & Danica’s work was shown in CNN, ArtForum, Dazed, and Frieze. You can find Unsustainable available digitally for sale (for ages 18+) at heyanniemok.itch.io