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 TV and commercial animation production experience in almost every role -- animation, storyboards, layout, character design, and directing. past production work includes shows: 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.

their personal work revolves around themes of hapless characters in ambiguously malevolent environments, impossibly big and bursting emotions like stormy weather, and the pursuit of a new, unnameable feeling that lies somewhere at the intersection of goofy, sentimental and foreboding. also things that are cool and fun to draw.