It’s September, the start of spooky-season, and it’s time to talk about BOOM!. BOOM! and their sub-pubs, KaBOOM!, BOOM! Box, and Archaia. What are they doing? Let’s take a looksee. As parent-company, BOOM! are pretty good about colour-coordinating the bulk of their weekly title covers. Do they do this on purpose? I’m not really sure….
Nicole Georges’ “Calling Dr. Laura,” Alison Bechdel’s “Fun Home,” Graphic Memoir, and Something Strange About Time
Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (published by Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007) and Nicole Georges’ Calling Dr. Laura: A Graphic Memoir (published by Houghton Mifflin Company, 2013) share some important similarities: they’re both graphic memoir texts that feature family dramas, and they both use the comics form to do interesting things with time. The similarities…
Lines of Pride: LGBTQIA+Webcomics About Life
Users of the LINE Webtoon app were greeted Monday with a notification from the service advising that there had been a rash of abuse with the reporting tool to get LGBTQIA+ comics shut down. They responded promptly to explain that they are inclusive website and would be contacting creators to get their pages back up….
Kickstart Your May!
It’s May and there’s a whole new crop of interesting comics projects out there to throw your money at! These crowdfunded comics include anthologies, creator-owned series, autobio, and one publisher bundle. The Beyond Anthology 2 + The Beyond Anthology 1 Reprint Sfé R. Monster & Taneka Stotts (editors) The initial Beyond Anthology smashed their fundraising…
Suffering Sappho! The Role of Queer Coding in Wonder Woman
It’s a good time to be a Wonder Woman fan. Sure, it’s only taken seventy-five years, but the Amazon princess is finally beginning to receive a level of widespread respect equal to the other, mostly male, heroic icons venerated by popular culture. A vast amount of responsibility for this achievement lies with the relaunched Wonder…
The Midnighter Roundtables: The Authority by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch
In a historical move, DC Comics has slated to publish the first direct market comic book industry title led by a queer couple, Midnighter & Apollo #1, on October 5th. Midnighter and Apollo certainly aren’t the newest kids on the block, however. The two first appeared in 1998’s Stormwatch #4 by Warren Ellis, Bryan Hitch, and…
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…
Midnighter & Apollo Return October 5th in New Series
A few months ago, you may remember that we hosted Midnighter Week in celebration of the release of Midnighter vol. 1: Out. Fans were devastated to find out the same week that the much beloved series by Steve Orlando and ACO was canceled. Midnighter represented a more progressive horizon at DC Comics within its DCYou…