The past is filled with unresolved issues, incidents, relationships for most people, and in many ways Tillie Walden’s On A Sunbeam is about moving forward to work on what’s past. It’s apt that this is a science fiction adventure, but while storywise it concerns itself with space travel, time travel is just as crucial to […]
Flame Con Was Lit with New Record Attendance and Overflowing Joy
Last weekend’s LGBTQ-themed Flame Con was yet another spectacular success that enveloped people in a warm haze of acceptance and love. I
2018 PRISM Award nominations announced honoring the best in LGBTQAI+ comics
For the second year in a row, I was honored to be a judge for the Prism Awards, and here are the 2018 nominees! The Awards, presented by PRISM COMICS and the CARTOON ART MUSEUM, are given to comic works by queer authors and works that promote the growing body of diverse, powerful, innovative, positive or challenging representations […]
Review: Charting homophobia’s personal toll in ‘Luisa: Now and Then’
We all have things we’d like to explain to our teenage selves, and I have a feeling the older we get, the more we want to unload. But there are levels of knowledge that can be addressed depending on your life. The necessary conversation might entail professional or educational advice. It might touch on family […]
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 6/11/18: A shocking headline accompanied by an unrelated photo
Something to whet your #SDCC appetite: A @BobsBurgersFOX trolley! @sdmts #BobsBurgers pic.twitter.com/eyTh21887C — Outside Comic Con (@OutsideComicCon) June 10, 2018 § Wrapped trolleys are already showing up in San Diego! Comic-Con is only 37 days away! § The MNT is reporting that comics writer Greg Thelen has passed away. He created and wrote the webcomic Amanda Green, […]
Reviews: Three thought-provoking new releases from Retrofit
Shit and Piss by Tyler Landry Imagine the comic that not only lives up to that title, but manages to do so with a poetic grace. That’s what Landry has achieved, a post-apocalyptic meditation on the relationship between life and filth, with death and violence as crucial to the cycle of life. Taking place mostly […]
Podcast: Two Women in a Hotel Room at TCAF Episode 4 – Final thoughts on the book of the show
Well, we’ve made if through TCAF and like the seasoned campaigners they are, Brigid Alverson and Erica Friedman decamped for home before dawn even broke, leaving Deb Aoki and Heidi MacDonald to eat the last croissants and ketchup potato chips and perhaps enjoy an impromptu mimosa with the leftover bottle of rose. As we wrap things […]
A year of free comics: Ariel Ries’ Witchy
Witchy is a complete and utter gift. I found it when trawling twitter for a new addiction, and boy did I find it. Ariel Ries beautiful, haunting and sweet comic is the queer, asian witch comic that you didn’t know you were missing (or maybe you did, cos who ever has enough comics about badass queer, […]