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.…
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Learning to Love the Legion: FUTURE STATE: LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #1
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Infusing Manga with Diversity: Frederick Jones, MyFutprint, and SATURDAY AM
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Health and Inclusivity: Exploring the Gay Journey in GIVEN by Natsuki Kizu
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Professor Latinx: The Pulse on Latinx Comics 2020 (and a Look Forward)
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Creating During COVID: Chatting with DRYAD Artist Justin Osterling
Health and Inclusivity
Health and Inclusivity: Exploring the Gay Journey in GIVEN by Natsuki Kizu
Music can be an equalizer. It can reveal things hidden within us or help us dive into our feelings. We can express joy, despair, happiness, anger, and many other emotions. So, what if music was the way to see yourself? To see others? To forge pivotal connections? In Given, we get to see not only…
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
Health and Inclusivity: Coming into Power with Jessi Zabarsky and WITCHLIGHT
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: FUTURE STATE: LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #1
SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS! At some point in the future of the future, a ragtag band of former Legionnaires criss-crosses the galaxy, trying to get the team back together to confront the one responsible for the galaxy’s destruction… a former teammate! Well! That wasn’t quite what I was expecting! There is, at least in this issue,…
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…