Helena Janečić was born in Osijek in 1979. She graduated from Furman University in the United States in 2003, and in 2007 earned a master's degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. Through comics and painting she works on the presentation of unexplored or neglected queer history (pastoral depictions of Slavonian brides). She has exhibited in several solo and numerous group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad, in a variety of media from painting, comics to musical performances. Some of her comics were included in the anthology Female comics from the Balkans (Fibra, 2010). She received the Ex Aequo award at the 20th and 23rd Slavonian Biennale, and in 2009 her work was included in the art collection of Erste Bank. Since 2010 she has been a member of the Croatian Freelance Artists' Association.