Comics Book Girl 19

Danika Lee Massey,[1]  also known as Comic Book Girl 19 or CBG19, is a YouTube personality and adult model known for her commentaries on

comics, films, books, and television shows.[2]  She has a degree in sequential art from the Savannah College of Art and Design.

omic Book Girl 19 had been working as a tattoo artist for five years when she and Tyson Wheeler began producing YouTube videos in 2012.[4]  She remained a full-time tattoo artist during the first year of the show, and quit to promote a 2013 Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to finance the production of more episodes.[4]  The campaign raised over $57K when it ended in May 2013.[5]  Comic Book Girl 19 and her team also joined the ongoing crowdfunding platform Patreon in 2016.[6]

As of January 2018, the Comic Book Girl 19 YouTube channel has over 49 million views and nearly 527,000 subscribers.[7]  Some of her most popular videos are commentaries on the film Prometheus, the television series Game of Thrones, and the documentary series Epic History X-Men. Some videos delve into the background of popular culture myths and explore special effects in movies. In 2013, she interviewed Alec Gillis of Amalgamated Dynamics, a special effects company that specializes in animatronics and prosthetic makeup.[8]  CBG19 occasionally co-presents with "Robot",[9]  a Golden Age of Science Fiction-inspired robot character with the personality of an angry teenager, and "Space Brain", a floating brain with eyes. The CBG19 videos are directed and edited by Tyson Wheeler, and the creative partnership is called "Team 19" or "Team 19 Productions".[3]

Comic Book Girl 19 has contributed reviews of various comics to DC All Access.[10]  She has also appeared on The Jace Hall Show's Lounge Live,[11]  Geek and Sundry,[12]  and Chaotic Awesome,[13]  sharing her views on pop culture and comics. She posed for the artist Daniel Dos Santos in a photo shoot for the cover of Diana Rowland's novel White Trash Zombie Apocalypse[14] [15]  and was featured on Gizmodo for winning "Best in Show" for her RoboCop costume at Dragon Con.<sup id="cite_ref-16">[16]  CBG19 has been featured in Variety<sup id="cite_ref-Variety_2013_2-1">[2]  and Cosmopolitan.<sup id="cite_ref-17">[17]  She has spoken at TEDx Claremont Colleges on the value of using fictional characters for empowerment.<sup id="cite_ref-18">[18] <sup id="cite_ref-19">[19]  Her series Greater Creators was released in 2017,<sup id="cite_ref-20">[20]  for Verizon’s go90 platform.

CBG19 has said her pseudonym is connected to the 19th card of the Major Arcana of the Tarot, which is The Sun.<sup id="cite_ref-hare3_21-0">[21]  Interviewed by HelloGiggles in 2014, Massey said that her use of the number is related to Stephen King's The Dark Tower.<sup id="cite_ref-22">[22]  The number features in many of her videos in the form of a tattoo.