Helena Janečić was born in 1979 in Osijek, Croatia. She graduated in painting from Furman University (USA) and obtained an MA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where she lives and works. Her youthful fascination with comic book did not abandon her during or after the study of painting. In both media she is trying to shed light on different aspects of the contemporary queer discourse: in paintings in the form of idyllic Slavonian country girls, and in comics with the superheroine Horny Dyke.