Comics is a business. We rightfully spend much of our time talking about what we love, what infuriates us, and what gives us life, but we sometimes forget about the financial transaction involved in getting the art that moves us. Cartoonists and comics writers need to eat, to pay their rent, and to feed their cats, and…
Boystyle: A Continuation of the Lolita Fashion & Subculture
Sasa Stickings Cheung, she doesn’t like to broadcast her age, has been wearing Ouji for almost two years. She first started wearing Lolita in 2014, then transitioned to Ouji, which is a Boystyle fashion of Lolita. Cheung watches young women dressed in maid uniforms bustling around the room getting orders in Uncle Tetsu’s Angel Café…
Bug Ladies in Victorian England: Queer Sexuality in Insexts (NSFW)
Note: This article contains spoilers for Insexts and images that are not safe for work. On the surface, Insexts is a monster story. It is gory and graphic, with no qualms about Alien-esque birth scenes and vagina-teeth eating a man’s arm; at no point does the art veer away from being downright gross if it needs…
Get Your Game on Wednesday
Happy Wednesday, gaming lovelies! If the work week has got you down, try daydreaming about the Larp Design Conference in Poland. The three-day conference for designers and organizers takes place in a castle. That’s right, a castle! Don’t you wish your employer would send you? Now, on to the news!
