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Tee, a Black woman with faux locs in a half up/down ponytail hairstyle, wears a blouse patterned with tulips and stares into the camera.

Photo by Sylvie Rosokoff.

Artists

Tee Franklin

She // Her // Hers

Author and Screenwriter

New Jersey

Tee Franklin is a Black, queer, disabled, autistic wheelchair user, as well as a television and comics writer. Franklin wrote the GLAAD-nominated DC Comics/Harley Quinn series Eat, BANG! Kill Tour, which was a Number One hit on Amazon throughout 2021. Franklin is the first Black woman to write both Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy comics, as well as the first Black woman writer with multiple series published by Image Comics. Franklin hopes to pave the way for more marginalized comic creators as well as change the harmful disabled tropes plaguing the entertainment industry.

Franklin resides in New Jersey, is a mom of adult children, and can be found tweeting about anime, comics, and horror.

Donor -Disability Futures is supported by Ford Foundation and Mellon Foundation.

This artist page was last updated on: 08.20.2024