had already inked, colored and lettered her syndicated strip Brenda Starr, Reporter and did the same on Mary Worth.

As a teacher, Brigman has worked at times as an instructor at The Kubert School in Dover, New Jersey, since 2005. She also worked part-time as a professor of sequential art at the Atlanta branch of Savannah College of Art and Design for several years until summer of 2018. As of 2021, she works as a professor of comic storytelling