Don’t cast Melinda Gebbie as one of the wayward characters depicted in The Lost Girls, the three-volume, 30-chapter masterpiece of erotic fiction she illustrated and coauthored with long-time love Alan Moore. Sure, she’s had her fair share of weird exploits and random affairs — she was making feminist comics in 1973 in San Francisco, tuning in and dropping out.

Surrounded by enormous klieg lights, the pint-sized artist and illustrator holds court discussing the release of her first book, Dr. Sketchy’s Official Rainy Day Colouring Book, a romp through the whimsical world of cabaret life drawing courtesy of her bimonthly Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School sketching salon.