NSFW: Painted nudity. This week it’s all art we love and art we love talking about. Welcome back to Multifarious! Artist Janet Bruesselbach has begun a series of gorgeous oil portraits of trans women, Daughters of Mercury. She’s currently raising funds for the project on Kickstarter.
Sexy Times with Dice: 10 RPGs That Deal with Sex and Sexuality
Tabletop RPGs are perceived to have a sex problem. Either they are a pastime you engage in because you aren’t getting busy, or there are half-clothed busty women leering from the covers in a display of oversexualized content. In this, mainstream tabletop RPGs reflect our society’s conflicted views on sexuality: we either giggle in embarrassment…
Zine-Sized Review: Not-So-Butch
Not-so-butch MariNaomi Self-published minicomic 2011 On my last trip to the local comic bookstore I picked up my normal random stack of zines among the anthologies and graphic novels I had saved up to buy. In this most recent collection of tiny comics was MariNaomi’s Not-so-butch. In the store I had considered buying her larger…
Queer Comics Panel At BCC
Whether you’re representing women or LGBTQ or any other minority in comics, there’s a lot of similarity in the issues. The Queer Comics panel at Boston Comic Con covered lots of ground including the progress being made in the mainstream, writing characters you don’t know, and encouraging more characters.
CHEW On This: The Transmisogyny in Layman and Guillory’s Indie Darling
I’m writing this essay because I feel disgusted and betrayed. My name is Rachel Stevens, and I am a transwoman. I live my life in fear because of it, and I have a devil of a time finding fictional works to take in that aren’t actively hateful towards people like me. Unfortunately, I have to…
Ladies Only: the Problem with Gender & Diversity Focused Panels
It’s time to change the way we do panels at conventions. Right now women, LGBTQ, and people of color are invited to speak on panels such as: GMing as Women Gaming as Other Diversity in Gaming Race in the Gaming Industry Queer as a Three-Sided Die I love the titles of these panels. They’re fun, badass,…
Ghost in the Shell: The Major’s Body (4)
The Major, or Motoko Kusanagi, is the protagonist of each incarnation of the Ghost in the Shell manga-anime-merchadise franchise. If you care to google, Motoko Kusanagi is autocompletes to “a man” and “is hot,” then “in bed with a boy” and “in bed.” For a science-fiction philosophy character named for her military position, we (the audience — although I don’t…
Northstar’s Wedding Passed Singapore Censors Because it Was “Balanced,” Keven Keller’s Not
Earlier this month, Singapore censors banned Life With Archie #16, which featured the wedding of gay veteran Kevin Keller and his physiotherapist Clay. But Astonishing X-Men #51, which depicted Northstar’s wedding to longtime boyfriend Kyle, made it through.
Death Comes for Archie: Life With Archie #36
Life With Archie #36 Paul Kupperberg (W), Pat Kennedy, Tim Kennedy, Jim Amash (A) Archie Comics Life With Archie # 36 opens slow, with the eponymous everyteen hero, Archie Andrews, looking back on his life and adventures in Riverdale. Life With Archie is not the Double Digests you might remember, it’s an adventure book, heavy…
Review of Grayson #1: And They Say “You Don’t Know Dick” To The Readers?
Grayson #1 Tim Seeley and Tom King (W) Mikel Janin and Jeremy Cox (A) TW: sexual harrassment, rape I don’t mind coming in “in media res.” That’s a grabby way to start a story.
Review: Fast Friends (NSFW)
Fast Friends Writer: Dale Lazarov Artist: Michael Broderick Dale Lazarov bills his work as “smart, wholesome, gay comics smut,” and that it is. Fast Friends, like Sticky and Manly is a wordless, erotic comic that balances poignant slice of life narrative with marathon sex.
Plz Diversify Your Panels (and everything else, k?)
In the wake of BookCon’s scramble to offer a more diverse panel after internet backlash, a new movement has risen.
