Writer of the Patricia Highsmash column. Former editor of Along the Chaparral, Future Earth Magazine & Platte Valley Review. Author of Examining New X-Men & Us Living in Fictional Cosmogonies. Guest Presenter at Naropa University, University of California Riverside, and Harbin Institute. Former faculty, Shandong University. New film, low fruit, at https://bit.ly/2zvuzcs
PATRICIA HIGHSMASH: Five Ways to Read Final Crisis: Four Dimensions! What does a Final Crisis made only over the @grantmorrison tie-ins look like? Of the farthest realms & inside our guilt shaped by @TheDougMahnke & @LeeGarbett? #DCComics
DetailsPATRICIA HIGHSMASH: #GhostHoax #Lurkers #NightmareOnElmSt #Rebecca #EkoEkoAzarak #AmericanMary #Gaslight #HushHushSweetCharlotte #Surveillance #AngelHeart #EvilDead When they lie to you. When they make you feel it’s you. Gaslighting is the scariest.
DetailsAnne Sexton & Barbara Swan recreated fairytales in Transformations, poetry & line art creating a bigger beast, but to learn from it, we must acknowledge its debt in abuse, in cruelty, in compromise and collaboration. #PatriciaHighsmash
Details.@GailSimone wrote Birds of Prey like nobody’s business, transforming with @NicolaScottArt & others a small team-up thriller into a whole world of community and trouble. One of the greatest walking tours of the DC Comics Universe there will ever be.
DetailsIn 1961, blocks away from Marvel launching the Marvel Age, Sandra Scoppettone & Louise Fitzhugh created Suzuki Beane for Doubleday, licensed her to Desilu, then this comic by two lesbians went out of print. #PatriciaHighsmash
DetailsHow Dream Nails, the band & album, and Transgender Tapestry, the long-running magazine, came together the other day to save my life, preserve my cool, and remind me we have each other’s backs. #PatriciaHighsmash @yourdreamnails
DetailsSasie Sealy’s Lucky Grandma is not supposed to feature my grandma, but what I saw, when I saw it, was my grandma. And, that has never happened to me before. @LuckyGrandma88
DetailsJennie Gyllblad’s Jenitales anthologies are sexy, inventive & funny for people who want to have a good time! @JennieGyllblad
DetailsCharlotte Salomon, born 1917, was murdered by Nazis at Auschwitz. She made a 400+ page comic about her family, life, and the state of Germany. It has only grown in meaning & significance.
Details#UsLivingInFictionalCosmogonies concludes with the historicity of Ludgwig Van Beethoven, narrativity, ethics & community in #BillAndTed. Be excellent to each other. @Winter @BillandTed3 @ed_solomon
DetailsDeath of the Author, separating the artist & art, the responsibility of artists & audience, how Jack Kirby’s Fourth World & #UsLivingInFictionalCosmogonies can help us find place & pace and enjoy the worlds we have. #PatriciaHighsmash
DetailsArt, kitsch, entertainment & fun. For betterment & guilty pleasure. The good, bad & corrective Jack Kirby’s New Gods, Mr Miracle, Forever People, Fourth World & the value of everything in a comic book. #PatriciaHighsmash #UsLivingInFictionalCosmogonies
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