A. V. Phibes
A.V. Phibes (Short for Alia Vulnavia Phibes) is an American illustrator known for her slick, retro-inspired images, cartoons and pinups. Born in Baltimore, she also lived in New Mexico and Colorado before settling in Brooklyn, New York in 1998.
Phibes worked as a commercial illustrator before founding her design studio, EvilKid Productions in 2000. Under the EvilKid moniker, Phibes has done the webcomic "Evilkid Comix" and currently produces the webcomic Kitty and Robot. The Evilkid.com Website also sells prints of artwork and licensed merchandise bearing Phibes designs and her character creations such as "Sad Kitty".
In her commercial illustration career, she illustrated the books "make me a Popstar" by Michelle Tauber and "Shaking Her Assets" by Robin Epstein and Renee Kaplan. In her limited fine art career, she has done solo shows at Blue Ruin gallery in Pittsburgh and at Trinity Art Gallery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She has also shown works in the annual Seattle Erotic Arts Festival and the Dirty Show in Detroit.
Phibes also spent a few years as a sideshow performer, doing fire-eating, escapism, glass walking, a bed of nails act and human blockhead. She was a member of the Modern Gypsies Sideshow and later the Pyrate Sisters All-Girl Sideshow (with whom she still occasionally performs). She has also acted in plays with the informal theater group "The Lion Pinball Players."