Writer of the Patricia Highsmash column. Former editor of Along the Chaparral, Future Earth Magazine & Platte Valley Review. Author of Us Living in Fictional Cosmogonies & There is Nothing Left to Say (On The Invisibles). Guest Presenter at Naropa University, University of California Riverside, and Harbin Institute. Former faculty, Shandong University. Director of short films, including low fruit.
Lindsay McCabe, Maetel, Little Annie Fanny, Kitty Pryde. What makes a character with a sexual aspect a paper lover, a safe refuge, someone who feels like a full earnest person, and is it you, them, or the talent who make’em?
DetailsJerry Cornelius is not quite an open source character (though he has been used by others, with and without his creator’s permission), but Jerry Cornelius the technology, Jerry Cornelius the series of techniques or the tonal approaches, that may be something anyone can use. In degrees.
DetailsGalactic Junk Squad (Well, More Like Family) is a powerhouse, a comic of glory, of adventure, of family. And, its author, David Moses LeNoir, is a dynamite guy, who has impressed me in his work and as an online presence, for longer than I can readily recall.
DetailsDevil is Batman. Moon-Boy is his Robin. Devil Dinosaur was a post-modern anti-fascism comic with feminist retellings of ancient tales, a range of millions of years, and a love of freedom, compassion, and learning. It also has a hella lot of dinosaurs!
DetailsWhat is the last comic you thought was genuinely brave? Not cool, hip, funny… but brave?
DetailsCaptain Marvel, Colonel Carol Danvers, in ten pages from ten comics, exploring the breadth of her fictional life and existence.
DetailsMahmud Asar, artist on some of the most beloved issues of X-Men Red and Supergirl, is currently tearing it up on Conan the Barbarian from Marvel Comics. While Asrar has always shown a confident range in his work, his art is most often identifiable by the strong presence of his bodies, so foregrounded that they…
DetailsWith the help of artist, Anzu, let’s examine an X-Men comic aimed at teenaged girls, Misfits, tackled expectations of violence, gender roles, romance, and being the new student at Xavier’s school for mutants who might one day be superheroes.
DetailsThe Rise and Fall of Empires, a short comic by Rian Hughes and Grant Morrison recently published in Heavy Metal, is an exercise in trusting the audience. No definitive characters, figure work, plot or causality. Letting the audience work as they will. As they can.
DetailsYu Watase’s Fushigi Yugi is a fantasy adventure romance in which everyone is smiling through their pain to make life easier for all of us.
DetailsAn interview with writer, artist, and comics genius, Jennie Gyllblad.
DetailsWritten by Warren Ellis, drawn by Martin Chaplin, Sugarvirus is an early 1990s comic about addict behavior, survival drives, and the scariness of being alive.
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