Whitney Matheson is a New York-based writer best known for creating Pop Candy (1999-2014), USA Today’s award-winning pop-culture blog. She is the author of several children’s books, including We Make Comics (2019), and she co-edited the comics anthology Pandemix: Quarantine Comics in the Age of ‘Rona (2020). Her work has appeared in Playboy, Slate, The Hollywood Reporter, and other publications. Read her diary comics and subscribe to her weekly pop-culture newsletter at patreon.com/whitneymatheson.