Ilene Haddad is a cartoonist, graphic designer, and award-winning writer from Austin, Texas. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Austin's NPR outlet, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, the National Headache Foundation, the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop, and other publications.

She studied graphic design at the University of Texas at Austin and has run her own design studio for over 20 years. She was a recipient of the Women in Communications’ Creative Initiative Award for founding BlogathonATX, a central Texas blogging conference.

Ilene lives with her husband, Bill, a lazy lapdog named Harry, and Dexter, the ghost of poodles past. Her current project is a collection of illustrated essays about her marriage.

You can find her cartoons and other random stuff on Instagram.