I enjoyed an eight year correspondence with Jane. In hindsight I wish I had been more frequent on taking her up more often on invitations to contribute to comic projects. But I did manage to send in a few pages for her minicomix.
In looking over this folder of her mail I get angry thinking about how she was taken away so early. She certainly was one of the major female Newave cartoonists and I believe she would be gratified today to see the more equitable gender balance of cartoonists producing self-published and obscuro comix as compared to the 1980s.
Jane needs to be more celebrated and recognized as a pioneer. You can find a nice 1986 interview with her by Tim Corrigan in the Newave Reader.
