Results for: be the change
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Drawn to Comics: “Dating a Trans Person Changed My Partner’s Life” Starts a Good Discussion About Trans Life and Love
“The joy these people are feeling for having found happy, loving and affirming relationships is radiating off of the page. These are clearly trans people who have found happiness with who they are and where they are in life, and the art goes a long, long way to show that.”
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Before I Go, Here’s My Top Ten Favorite “Drawn to Comics” Comics of All Time
It’s time for me to say goodbye to Drawn to Comics. Here are some thoughts on what all of y’all have meant to me and my favorite comics along the way.
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Drawn to Comics: Shivana Sookdeo Shows the Cruelty of Plagiarism in “Write Write Kill”
Holy hell I was not ready for Shivana Sookdeo’s wild new 40-page comic Write Write Kill.
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Drawn to Comics: Talking to Grace Ellis About Queer Fantasy Coffee Shop AU Comic Moonstruck!
“It’s a really queer book. And don’t worry! We’re going to take good care of your spooky babies, even when the going gets rough in the story. They’re in good, safe hands.”
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Drawn to Comics: “My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness” Is an Incredible Examinations of Mental Illness, Sexuality and Shame
It’s about queer identity and finding happiness and purpose in life and living for yourself not for others and yes, loneliness. It’s a coming of age story, but for twenty-somethings dealing with struggles of identity, sexuality and mental health.
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Drawn to Comics: “We’re Still Here” is an All-Trans Comic Anthology That Needs Your Support
In We’re Still Here, there are fifty-five different stories, all with different trans creators or creative teams. There’s no set genre for these comics, so there’s everything from slice-of-life to visual essays to sci-fi to nonfiction.
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Drawn to Comics Interview: Support Terrific Queer Scifi Comics With the “O Human Star” Kickstarter!
“My favorite thing about making this comic is getting to continually explore these characters … I love how they’ve changed and developed over the course of the story, and … I’m glad my readers have gotten attached to them as well.”
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Drawn to Comics: 15-Year-Old Maggie Thrash Interviews Herself in This Brand New Exclusive “Honor Girl” Excerpt
“After that summer, all I wanted was reassurance — not from other people necessarily, but from myself. I would have loved to talk to my adult self and ask her a million questions: Am I ok? Do I make it out of my teens alive? Who do I turn out to be, in the end?”
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Drawn to Comics: Trans Cartoonist Julia Kaye Makes Cute Comics With Real Life Punch
Even when the realities of being a trans woman get her down, she’s able to look at the positive side of life and hope things will one day be better.
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Drawn to Comics: Support the Beyond Anthology Vol. 2 Kickstarter and Read Some Great Queer Urban Fantasy and Post-Apocalyptic Comics
Renegade city fae, post-apocalyptic bicycle gangs, reclusive monster boyfriends, and mysterious sewer-dwelling mermaids!
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Drawn to Comics: 6 Terrific Women Immigrants and Refugees From Comics
Obviously real-life immigrants and refugees are way more important than fictional ones ever will be, but here are some characters you can read about if you want to see stories about immigrants and refugees who are kicking bad guys’ butts.
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Drawn to Comics: Jillian Tamaki’s “SuperMutant Magic Academy” Will Change the Way You Look at High School, Mutants, Graphic Novels
In both writing and illustrating this new book, and in doing both masterfully, Tamaki is now poised to take her place as one of the best and most important Graphic Novelists of the modern age.
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Drawn to Comics: Chicana Bisexual Maddi Gonzalez Makes Beautiful Comics About Mental Illness and Life
Maddi is doing some really brilliant art right now — she’s having a ton of fun and loosening up her style at the same time as she’s refining it and finding her real voice.
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Drawn to Comics: Marguerite Bennett Talks Batwoman, Representation and the Importance of Fallible Queer Heroes
I talked with Bennett about what it’s like being the first woman and the first openly queer woman to write a Batwoman solo title, what she hopes to bring to it, and what she hopes queer readers will get from the series.
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Drawn to Comics: The 10 Best Comics of 2016
While the world was burning down, there was still some light in the world, and these comics provided a lot of that light.
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Drawn to Comics: Gifts to Impress Your Queer Comics Crush
In light of this acceptance that I’m attracted to nerds, and with the understanding that there are probably lots of you who are attracted to nerds too, I decided that I’d put together some suggestions for gifts you can get for that special nerdy crush in your life.
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Drawn to Comics: Get Pulled into Orbit By Tillie Walden’s Teen Space Webcomic “On A Sunbeam”
Walden is far and away one of the best cartoonists working today. She crafts such simple stories and images, but they hold in themselves universes of feeling, emotion and meaning. On a Sunbeam has one of the most interesting and compelling future worlds and character rosters of any comic I’m reading right now.
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Drawn to Comics: Six Spooky and Fun Comics Perfect for an All-Ages Queer Halloween
Halloween is a great time for queer people. We get to explore weird stuff, we get to dress however we want, we get to try new things. We also get to tell stories. We get to tell stories that show just how weird and different and, yes, sometimes creepy, our worlds and our lives and our selves are.
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Drawn to Comics: Lumberjanes Reminds Us that All Hardcore Lady Types Are Welcome
This credo has been hammered home in a recent issue where Barney, who was once a Scouting Lad, joins the Lumberjanes and the book starts clearly using they/them pronouns for them.
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Drawn to Comics: I’m Gay For Patsy Walker AKA Hellcat
Reading Patsy Walker, AKA Hellcat feels like being your ideal 14 year old self and going on a super fun adventure with your amazing group of friends during summer vacation.