Aminder Dhaliwal

Aminder Dhaliwal (born December 5, 1988) is a Canadian cartoonist and animator. She is best known for her 2018 graphic novel Woman World.

Born in Brampton, Ontario, Dhaliwal attended Sheridan College for animation and won a placement at Nickelodeon as a production intern. She began working as a storyboard artist and since 2013 has accumulated credits as a writer, director and storyboard artist on a number of television series, including The Fairly OddParents, Sanjay and Craig, Steven Universe, and Pinky Malinky. She is currently employed as a director at Disney TV animation.

Comics

Inspired by the Women’s March in 2017, Dhaliwal began serializing Woman World on Instagram. The science fiction comic tells the story of the development of an all-woman civilization after men become extinct as a result of a birth defect. After amassing over 100,000 followers on Instagram, the strip was reworked for print and collected as a graphic novel published by Drawn and Quarterly in September, 2018.

The instagram version of Woman World was nominated for a 2018 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Online Comic. In 2019, the graphic novel was itself nominated for a Doug Wright Spotlight Award and made the longlist of nominees for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour.

On March 27, 2019, it was announced that Dhaliwal was writing the pilot episode of an animated version of Woman World for Disney’s Freeform cable network. Actress Felicia Day is to produce the proposed series.

Animation

Writer, Director, Storyboard Director

Television