This guest post is written by Jennifer Caroccio, a Nuyorican from Queens, graduate student, poet and writer. She is currently pursuing a PhD in American Studies at Rutgers University-Newark, where her dissertation project focuses on the narrative capabilities of Latinx graphic memoirs and comic biographies as they reclaim a Latinx subjectivity in US cultural production.…
Transmyscira
Transmyscira: The Catfight over MAN-EATERS #9
We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation. – Mister Six, The Invisibles Volume 3 #12 The comic book industry is in the midst of a full blown crisis in the representation of transgender, non binary, and otherwise gender non-conforming people. The decision by Man-Eaters writer Chelsea Cain to…
The Comics Classroom
The Comics Classroom: AKIRA, a Cyberpunk Masterpiece
It is probably going to be impossible to say anything genuinely new concerning Akira, that masterpiece of Japanese manga created by Katsuhiro Otomo (hereafter referred to as Otomo) in 1982 which then ran until 1990. The premise of the story is that, thirty years after a post WW3 Japan has somewhat started to recover from…
Kirbyology!
KIRBYOLOGY!: Two Tales of Cavemen from the Craziest Trading Cards Ever
Some people carry a Bible in their pocket for comfort or as an inefficient bulletproof vest. I carry Jack Kirby: The Unpublished Archives, a 1994 set of trading cards that feature unused Kirby concepts from his time working in animation for Ruby-Spears. To say these concepts all over the map undersells their bonkers quotient by…
Palabra e Imagen
Comics and the FILM PHOTONOVEL: One-on-One with Jan Baetens
In Jan Baetens’ creative work as a poet, novelist, and scholar, we see an ongoing interest in image-text forms and content. This takes shape in his scholarly focus that has systematically analyzed all variety of image-text narrative form, especially those that move across genre and form like and that have traditionally been relegated to the…
Health and Inclusivity
Health and Inclusivity: LOVE IS LOVE and Healing Trauma through Comics for PRIDE
Seeing as this month is Pride, I wanted to write an article that focused on being trans and queer. And seeing as how I’m a sucker for the sads, I wanted to write about our history with trauma in the LGBTQ community. So, that lead me back to Love is Love, an anthology comic spearheaded…
Comic Love
Learning to Love the LEGION: Secret Origins
I’d like to start with a confession: Legion of Super-Heroes is the first comic I ever gave up on. It was 2011 and I had only started reading super-hero comics a couple years prior. The first comic I bought in single-issue floppies was Batgirl, and soon I’d expanded out into the rest of the Bat…
Queer Visibility
Baby, Queer Me One More Time: 39 MORE Indie Titles Doing Right by LGBTA Fans
Over the last few years, we’ve highlighted 101 print comics — not published by industry leaders DC or Marvel — and 80 webcomics that give queer, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, nonbinary, genderqueer, and asexual characters and stories center stage. The list is growing so quickly every day, to be honest, that keeping up with all…
#MakeComics
#MakeComics: Writer Mark Russell
How do the pros #MakeComics? We’re here to tell you. 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 Mark Russell! Mark is the Eisner-nominated and GLAAD Award-winning writer of The Flintstones, Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss…