Welcome to the official site of cartoonist J. Dejah Payne, where you can get the scoop on all her latest projects and happenings.
No appearances currently scheduled for the convention season.
Dejah Payne is a cartoonist known for her expressive style and offbeat characters. Her narrative works explore themes of personal identity, often through a comedic lens, as exemplified in the ongoing series PRINCEZZ and her latest anthology series THISTLES. Dejah primarily publishes under Syrup Pirates®, her micro-press imprint.
In her spare time Dejah enjoys pizza, gardening, vinyl collecting, classic cinema, retro-gaming, long walks, Go, meditation, miniature golf, and hobbyist computing.
For the last 20 years, J. Dejah Payne has self-published her works electronically and in print, much of which was branded under Syrup Pirates, her micro-press publishing imprint. A typical physical print run is between 12 and 50 copies. Below are a few select titles from more recent years.