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Drawn to Comics: Maggie Thrash’s Debut “Honor Girl” Captures Teenage Camp Queerness
“So much of being a girl in this society is about people trying to CONTAIN you. When I think about camp, I get this gut feeling, remembering the sky above my head. No walls, no parents. During the school year, you’re just trying to survive. Camp is a chance to be someone freer- an actual person.”
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2015 Autostraddle Comic and Sequential Art Awards: Winners Include Lumberjanes, Strong Female Protagonist, Bitch Planet
“That’s what these awards are, a deep and profound thank you to all of the people who make us glad that we didn’t listen when we were told that girls don’t read comics.”
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Drawn to Comics: Raven the Pirate Princess is the Coolest, Queerest Pirate on the Seven Seas
Raven is a queer woman of color on a quest who’s great with a bow and surrounds herself with a diverse pirate crew of equally brave and funny women.
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Drawn to Comics: Carey Pietsch Spins Magic With Her Comics About Witches and Healers
Much of Pietsch’s magic (get it?) comes from her ability to build a full, living world in her comics. In just a few pages she’s is able to transport her readers into a place with history, culture, rules for magic and new species of animals that all makes total sense.
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Read a F*cking Canadian Book, Eh: Diane Obomsawin’s “On Loving Women”
If you only have about an hour and you’re in the mood for pig-eared coming-out stories and illustrations of naked, horse-faced lesbian lovers lounging on vintage sofas drinking wine, On Loving Women is the book for you!
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Drawn to Comics: Fresh Romance #4 and Oath Anthology, Two Rad Online Comics Anthologies To Check Out
One of my favorite things about the internet is the rise of queer-friendly comics anthologies like these.
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Drawn to Comics: Lumberjanes, Other DtC Favs, Women and Queer Women Win Big at the Eisners!
I think this is genuinely the first time I’ve seen the list of winners from a major award and not just been not-dissapointed, but been genuinely happy.
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Drawn to Comics: Talking Comics With A-Camp 2015 Special Guest Jasika Nicole
“Reading ‘Fun Home’ was like someone turning on the lights for me. I immediately bought a book called ‘How To Make Comics’, went to (the now defunct) Pearl Paints and got all the tools I needed, and I just started drawing.”
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Drawn to Comics: Interview with Power Up Writer Kate Leth!
“When we see women in armor, or in suits, we think of them as strong and powerful. When we see men in a dress, it’s somehow demeaning. I don’t agree with that or believe it at all.”
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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: Team Girl Comic Issue #11 Brings Even More Great Comics By Women
Do you want a comic anthology with comics from fifteen female creators? Of course you do!
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Drawn to Comics: Sarah Graley’s Webcomics About Queer Pizza Witches, Punk Rock Freelance Warriors and Cute Cats
All of these comics are great, all of them are about women, all of them have the same impish sense of humor and adventure. And perhaps most importantly, all of them are full of cats.
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Drawn to Comics: Grootslang! Grootslang! Grootslang! (And Lumberjanes #16!)
Jeez, Abigail, what did the Grootslang ever do to you?
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Drawn to Comics: Lumberjanes Keeps Getting Cuter and Dang Cuter
“Okay, first things first, this is the most freaking adorable cover to a comic book I have ever seen in my life. And the inside of the comic is just as cute!”
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Drawn to Comics Classics: Runaways Makes Us All Feel Like Angsty (Superpowered) Teens Again
A superhero team with more girls than guys?! And multiple POC?! And multiple queer people?! And they’re teenagers who look, sound and act like teenagers?!
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Drawn to Comics: Have You Seen the Supergirl First Look Yet!?!?
I wasn’t really expecting a lot from this show, but I’m not gonna lie, I was crying by the end of this preview… and halfway through it…
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Drawn to Comics: “Computer Love” is a Cute Queer Scifi Story and Renee Montoya is Back at DC!
“Computer Love” is a cute slice-of-life sci-fi webcomic filled with queer and trans characters. Renee Montoya is an amazing lesbian Latina superhero/detective. Both are great!
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Drawn to Comics: Seven Upcoming Titles from Marvel, DC and Boom! I Can’t Wait to Read
What a time to be alive! Major comic companies are actually targeting comics at women, queer people and people of color!
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Drawn to Comics: Sera From Marvel’s “Angela: Asgard’s Assassin” is the Closest to a Trans Superhero We’ve Got So Far
Not only is Angela a super awesome, super powerful lady warrior, but her best friend and traveling partner is a sweet trans woman of color mage.
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Drawn to Comics: Let’s Talk About Lumberjanes #12 and the Batgirl Cover Controversy!
Lumberjanes was excellent! The proposed Joker variant cover for Batgirl #41, not so much.