Deana Sobel is a freelance cartoonist and illustrator. She is writing and illustrating three children’s books.
As an undergraduate at UC Berkeley, Deana illustrated and cartooned for The Daily Californian. Her editorial cartoons earned national recognition, including placing her as a national finalist for both the John Locher Memorial Award and the Society of Professional Journalism Mark of Excellence Awards. Her comic strip, Roomies, based on the lives of Deana and her six college roommates, was a finalist for MTV U's Strips contest. In 2008, she received a JD from UC Berkeley School of Law, where she concentrated in Copyright and Patent Law.
Deana drew her first cartoon, The Wacky Couples, at the age of eight, around the same time her Grandmother taught her to oil paint.
Her work has been published in Barron’s, among others.