Right out of the gate, let me say that Ignatz and Eisner Award-nominated Rina Ayuyang’s comics have me thinking a lot about movement and comics. Comics as movement: within the panel and between panels and page flips. Movement in content: all those physical and psychological emplotments. Movement within and across identities exquisitely shaped by creators…
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Learning to Love the Legion: LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #10
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Anatomy of a Panel: Murrieta and Schrader’s Ethnoracial Pause in Rafael Garcia: Henchman
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Transmyscira: Finding My Voice in TRANS GIRLS HIT THE TOWN
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Creating During COVID: Chatting with Anime Voice Actor Sean Chiplock
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Anatomy of a Panel: Rina Ayuyang BLAME(s) IT ON THE BOOGIE
Health and Inclusivity
Health and Inclusivity: Embracing the New in SCHOOL FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL GIRLS
Adjustment is basically a synonym for adolescence. In Jeremy Whitley, Jamie Noguchi, Shannon Lilly, and Wilson Ramos Jr.’s School for Extraterrestrial Girls, Tara has to make some adjustments that neither she nor we would ever expect. In a matter of moments, Tara finds out she isn’t human, like at all, the people who raised her…
Health and Inclusivity: The Past, Present, and Future of STE(A)M in Gifted’s P.B. SOLDIER
Health and Inclusivity: Coming into Power with Jessi Zabarsky and WITCHLIGHT
Health and Inclusivity: The Hard Road to Peace in FAR SECTOR
Health and Inclusivity: Finding Commonality in Weaver, Lee, and Robles-Valdez’s THE UNCOMMONS
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…
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…
Transmyscira
Transmyscira: Finding My Voice in TRANS GIRLS HIT THE TOWN
I want to say that Trans Girls Hit The Town profoundly altered the course of my life, but that’s a phrase that might not carry a lot of weight with me these days. I’ve related, in various ways over the years, how integral The Invisibles and Promethea were to the gender epiphany that lead me…
#MakeComics
#MakeComics: Writer and Artist Andi Watson
Comicosity is picking the brains of a pro who is killing it in the comics industry, and for this round I was lucky enough to talk to Andi Watson! Andi is the creator of the upcoming Kerry and the Knight of the Forest (July 2020), The Book Tour (November 2020), Glister, Princess Decomposia and Count Spatula,…
History of Violence
Doom and Bloom: Rachel Pollack and the Evolution of the DOOM PATROL
If you’ve been paying attention to the Doom Patrol in the past two decades, you might notice a key oversight. That is, how transgender author Rachel Pollack’s time as their writer has been largely ignored by DC’s marketing and editorial teams. Even John Arcudi’s run and John Byrne’s critically lambasted run (which even received its…
Learning to Love the LEGION
Learning to Love the Legion: LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #10
SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS! All across the Galactic, Legionnaires interact and plots advance in this tenth issue of Legion of Super-Heroes. We’re settling back in with regular artists Ryan Sook, Wade Von Grawbadger, Jordie Bellaire, and Dave Sharpe as we move out of what broadly seems to have been the first “phase” of this new Legion…
Palabra e Imagen
The Harsh Experience of Survival with DESERTER
How do we represent pain? How do we visualize mourning? How do we live knowing that all the people we love is gone? How can we continue living if the world around us is consuming? How do we live knowing that we survive while others could not? All these questions are present in the trilogy…