barbara benas is an emmy award-winning animator and award-winning comics artist that lives in the midwest US.

they have over fifteen years of experience animating and storyboarding on tv, film and commercial animation productions, including the decameron, broad city, dispatches from elsewhere, hamilton's pharmacopeia, ugly americans, teenage euthanasia, and zoolander: supermodel, as well as music videos for the beatles, eminem & snoop dogg and zedd & maren morris. their award-winning comic bottom's up! was published in 2024 with silver sprocket.