The cartoonist formerly known as Andrew Pepoy has announced their transition to Margeaux Pepoy in a Facebook post:
Hi! You’ve known me as Andrew for many years, but today I’m finally letting you all know that I’m Margeaux. Pronounced Mar-go. I’ve known I was different since I was a kid, but it’s only in recent times that I stopped being scared and embraced what that was. I’m excited and nervous going public, but it’s time I live as my true self. I understand this will take some getting used to, but I’m still the person you always knew: I still love comics, music, and all the same things and I’m still going to draw fun comics and tell dumb jokes. I’m very fortunate to have the support of my partners, many friends, and some family. Kind questions are welcome. I’m happy and hope you all can be happy for me.
Pepoy, 56, has worked on just about every comic you can think of as an inker and penciller, including a stint on the Little Orphan Annie comics strip, and the writer and artist on the 2008 Katy Keene relaunch from Archie. She is perhaps best known as the creator of The Adventures of Simone and Ajax, a charming long running self-published comic about a young woman and her small green dinosaur. In 2009 she won an Eisner Award for her inking work on “Murder He Wrote” in The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror #14.
With such a large body of past work, Pepoy noted that she was fine being credited as Andrew on existing work. “I’m proud of the work I did as Andrew, and there’s a lot of it,” she told The Beat. “I look at this as an evolution, so going forward I want to be credited as Margeaux, but I’m not going to ask anyone to change my credits on the old stuff. I’m even leaving old Simone & Ajax stories as is.”
Speaking of Simone and Ajex, you can still get the latest crowdfunded volume on IndieGoGo to support Margeaux and to read some very cute comics.
The Beat congratulates Margeaux on becoming her authentic self, and supports her and the rest of the trans community in these troubled times.
Congratulations, Margeaux!