Michele Robinson grew up in
New Orleans, where her parents were on the faculty at
Tulane University. In 1966, she and husband Roger Brand moved from
Oakland, California, to New York City, specifically to break into the comics business. Roger Brand began working for
Wally Wood and
Bill Pearson on
witzend and other projects. Michele assisted
Gil Kane on
His Name is Savage #1 (Adventure House Press, 1968). By the late 1960s the couple were back in the
San Francisco Bay Area. Michele's first comics credit was in the groundbreaking all female
one-shot ''
It Ain't Me, Babe (Last Gasp, 1970), with the story "Tirade Funnies." She later became a contributor to the follow-up series Wimmen's Comix, as well as anthologies like Arcade''. She and her husband were part of the group of cartoonists who formed the
United Cartoon Workers of America, an informal union designed to safeguard
creators' rights. In c. 1974, during the downturn of the underground comix market, she moved to
New York City and began working in the mainstream comics industry, mostly as a colorist. One of her last (proto-)underground contributions was to
Flo Steinberg's
Big Apple Comix, published in 1975. She worked for
Marvel Comics (doing color separations for
Marvel UK) and
Warren Publishing from 1974–1975, and
Heavy Metal in 1977, and then took time off to marry Bernie Wrightson and raise their sons. She returned to comics coloring in the mid-1980s, working for Marvel,
Eclipse Comics, and
DC Comics for the balance of that decade. She often worked on projects illustrated by Bernie Wrightson, including
Heavy Metal #65–70 (HM Communications, Inc., 1977), ''
Stephen King's Creepshow (Plume/Penguin Group, 1982), and The Weird (DC Comics, 1988). She colored many books published by the DC imprint Milestone Media during its run (1993–1997), chiefly Blood Syndicate''. She had no significant comics credits after 1997. == Personal life ==