Pandemic 2020 hit our communities hard. Many at the frontlines caught and suffered through the contagion. Many lost family members. All of us teeter-tottered between pressure-cooker anxiety and beat-down malaise. #BlackLivesMatter wiped thickened film from eyes, showing the world that for BIPOC folx, the pandemic just made more visible legacies of living under colonial-cum-capitalist rule.…
Health and Inclusivity
Health and Inclusivity: Through Blackest Nights to Brightest Days with Jessica Cruz
Writing does not come as easily lately, in large part because *too much* is going on. As a result of the *too much*, my mind easily goes to places that are great for survival and making sure I still have an income, but at the cost of my own mental health, and, unfortunately, my creativity.…
Health and Inclusivity: Exploring the Gay Journey in GIVEN by Natsuki Kizu
Health and Inclusivity: Breaking the Code in MY VIDEO GAMES ATE MY HOMEWORK
Health and Inclusivity: Embracing the New in SCHOOL FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL GIRLS
Health and Inclusivity: The Past, Present, and Future of STE(A)M in Gifted’s P.B. SOLDIER
Transmyscira
Transmyscira: There Is No Safeword in SFSX
For my birthday this year I treated myself to a seven inch dildo in bisexual pride colors. It’s one of my favourite toys in my collection now, but the first time I used it the feeling of contact with my prostate was so intense that I could only keep pressure on it for a second…
Kirbyology!
KIRBYOLOGY!: Tom Scioli Tells the Greatest Jack Kirby Story Possible (His Own)
From the 1930s to 1990s, Jack Kirby created gob-smacking art and unforgettable characters, but he was mainly a storyteller. “The Pact,” “Madbomb,” the Galactus trilogy, Captain America’s origin, Silver Star, OMAC, and even Thundarr the Barbarian are among the thousands of tales he spun solo or with collaborators. But the greatest Kirby story is the…
The Comics Classroom
Preserved in Art: THE MASSACRE OF BLACK WALL STREET and Historic Responsibility
I have vacillated on how to handle my inner desire to comment on the death of George Floyd. In many ways, I acknowledge this is a kind of privilege because my voice, in relation to the pain running through Black America, is not one I feel needs to be heard. What people need, and even…
#MakeComics
Roar into Pride Month with Joe Glass and THE PRIDE Omnibus
When he was 13, Joe Glass was a “massive X-Men fan,” and while there is said to be an obvious analogy made between the plight of mutants and queer people, he didn’t see any at that time. The writer later learned there were queer characters in comics, but they were either rarely appearing side characters,…
History of Violence
The Legion’s Lightning Rod: The Growth and Evolution of Lightning Lad
The Legion of Super-Heroes are one of the oldest teams in the history of DC Comics. What began as three time travelling teens who made an appearance in Adventure Comics #247 evolved into a group with such history and depth, by the 1980s they received their own Who’s Who series just to keep track of…
Learning to Love the LEGION
Learning to Love the Legion: FUTURE STATE: LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #2
SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS! Legion of Super-Heroes ends for the foreseeable future by wrapping up the story begun last month in Future State: Legion of Super-Heroes #1 in a way that, if it isn’t wholly satisfying, is at least definitive. So… This is it. The final issue, so far as we know, of this run of…
Palabra e Imagen
Visual Stories to Face a Brutal World: Fuego lento
This is a city that is gradually becoming a ruin. This is a city which streets are constantly covered by puddles and its buildings are decorated with cracks. This is a city that carries a painful past and lives a brutal present. Its inhabitants move alone, but they share the same wish: the desire to…