Action Athena is an autobiographical webcomic and blog made by Athena Currier.

It updates three days a week (Mon/Wed/Fri).

It began in March 2008, when Athena was a nineteen-year-old sophomore at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. It continued from there to the summer she spent living with two friends in St Paul, MN. Then it was back to Massachusetts for another semester at Hampshire…and then a semester abroad in Berlin! (There was some Istanbul and Poland and stuff too.)

When summer 2009 hit, Athena flew back home to Northfield, MN. She went on a family vacation to the Winnipeg Folk Festival and ate lots of pudding cake with best friend Sarah Goldfeather.

Then she returned to Hampshire for her senior year. Since Hampshire’s a weird hippie school, Athena was allowed to spend the entire year making a comics magazine called Burn Book. Apparently Burn Book turned out okay, because in May 2010, she was allowed to graduate.

For a short while, Athena thought that her post-graduation plans might involve attending the Center for Cartoon Studies, but she ultimately returned to Minnesota to spend 7 1/2 months living with her parents and working at a coffee shop and a library.

In January 2011, Athena moved to Minneapolis. There, she attends regular Minneapolis Cartoonist Conspiracy Jams and all the other fun comic-related activities the city has to offer. It’s pretty sweet.

If you would like to commission Athena for work, set up an interview, or just say “hey,” then by all means, email: