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I can't believe we just let that lobster thing drop

…THEY’RE CALLED T-SHIRTS BECAUSE THEY RESEMBLE THE LETTER T

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Wow! Look at all those little pink stars! Each one is a table where you will find queer artists and/or queer stories. (Dang, comics has gotten real queer, folks.)

It’s also exciting to me that SPX has 4 LGBTQ special guests this yes: Molly Ostertag, Lawrence Lindell, Ngozi Ukazu, and… drumroll… REBECCA SUGAR.

Here’s the list of who these fine people all are:

Exhibitors: Alecia Gatlin W13 Amanda Lafrenais  W72-73 Andrea Shockling W46B Archie Bongiovanni J12A April Malig W62B Beth Barnett K4A Blue Delliquanti  W74 Britt Sabo A14 C Spike Trotman (Iron Circus, Smut Peddler) W72-73 Carey Pietsch  E7A Carta Monir N1A Cathy G. Johnson  N6B E Jackson E4B Ed Luce N14 Danielle Corsetto W29 Evan Dahm D8 Haley Boros W9A HamletMachine K7 Hazel Newlevant J12B Io Clast J1 Isabella Rotman J11B Jade Armstrong H13B Jayme Brodie D11A Jess Fink W28 Jon Mastantuono G7A Josie Breck W5A Joyana McDiarmid  C5B Kate Leth W31-33 Kendra & Kat w48 Kevin Czap J13B Kevin Jay Stanton N7 L Nichols N3-4  Laura Terry K5 Lawrence Lindell M13B Lora Merriman W17A M. R. Trower H14B M. Sabine Rear W13 (with the Soft Skills Comics Collective) Madison Bacon D12A Maia Kobabe I5A Matt Lubchansky W34 Megan James F4B Molly Ostertag W9B Nechama K7 Ngozi Okazu W6 Penina Gal H5 (with One Percent Press) Rachel Dukes J3B Sage Coffee J13A Shoona Brownig C4 Soltian K7 Stephanie Hovden C7A Sunmi F3A Taneka Stotts I1A Victor Martins H13B

Special Guest, not exhibiting: Rebecca Sugar

Panelist, not exhibiting: Sara L. Jewell

Walking around: Jared Axelrod

I can’t be at SPX this year myself, but my heart will be there, and I’ll see you all in 2019. HUGS!

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Hey folks! I’ll be at TCAF in a week and a half, with my BRAND NEW BOOK.

DEBUTING AT TCAF 2018 - HAVE FUN, LEAVE ME OUT OF IT by Tony Breed

The second collection of Muddlers Beat—queer friends navigate dating, careers, and death, all with a sense of humor.

Exhibiting Creator: Tony Breed Publisher: Self-Published Price: $15 CAD

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ROAR Comic Crit Winter 2017

A collection of comics criticisms and reviews published on ROAR Magazine: Literature And Revolution By Feminist People from November-December 2017! Taking on the role of editor (as well as writer) for the Comics Crit section has been a big challenge, and one I’m still adjusting too, but I’m very proud of all the wonderful writers I’ve been able to help spotlight. Here’s hoping 2018 brings lots more opportunities for working with lovely people and publishing my own writing too!

I Can’t See Myself On Venus: Astra and the Problem of the All-Female Planet, Casey Bohn (@bohnbohn)

This potentially cheeky, ribald concept – a princess from a planet of women sent to find a man – is presented with a leaden earnestness, inviting serious inquiry into its plausibility … Even after “millions of years” of evolution, Astra’s people look exactly like Earthly women, and reproduce in the same way. Neither evolution nor the science of a futuristic, space-travelling society can find a better way – or even any other way – for life to go on. The message seems to be that if cisgender, heterosexual human reproduction became impossible on Astra’s planet, that would not be an acceptable variation in a literal universe of biological possibility, but an imbalance that must and will be corrected by the power of love.

Astra isn’t going to hurt anybody who doesn’t go out of their way to find it. The problem is not this one obscure example of bias-reinforcing narrative, but how utterly conventional it is. Genre fiction often sacrifices logic in this way to preserve the ideal of cis- and hetero- normativity as an objective, universal truth.

Minicomic Roundup: The Process of Processing, Rob Kirby (@robkirbycomics)

In this minicomics roundup, I’ll be taking a look at four self-published comics from four different creators [That Night (This Must Be the Place) by Tony Breed aka @tonybreed at Mega Hugs Press,  Evident Truths & Day & Night for It by Tyler Cohen aka @tylerzonia (available at tyler@primazonia.com), Orbiting by Penina Gal aka @penina-garlic (distributed by Radiator Comics),  Sporgo 2 by Laura Pallmall aka @nothinglefttolearn​, (Nothing Left To Learn)].

While these artists are of different ages, backgrounds, and aesthetics, all the work discussed here focuses on managing the impacts of grief, trauma, or simple day-to-day struggles. While that may sound like heavy-going, the immediacy and open nature of the graphic narrative form has a way of lightening the load of even the heaviest of subjects. Comics can be a great form of therapy, both for readers and creators.

Gods, Grief, and Family in “Cloudia & Rex”, Latonya Pennington

A decade ago, you’d have a hard time finding Black girls in a fantasy comic book. Now, comics like Princeless and Niobe: She Is Life are filling that void and showing that Black girls can be magical. Lion Forge Comics’ newest mini series Cloudia & Rex adds more magic to the mix through a compelling family adventure starring three Afro-Latinx female characters. The completed miniseries was recently collected in a digital and physical trade book.

After the unexpected death of their father, 12 year old Cloudia, her little sister Rex, and their mother go on a road trip that is dramatically interrupted by Thanatos and Hypnos, the twin gods of death and sleep. When their car is hit by a blinding light, Cloudia gains the strength of a hundred gods, Rex gains the power to shapeshift into various animals, ­and the family finds themselves irrevocably embroiled in the gods’ affairs…Besides the artwork, the characters are wonderfully written by writers Ulises Farinas and Erick Freitas. Cloudia, Rex, and their mother are relatable, sympathetic characters each dealing with grief in their own way.

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More comics at muddlersbeat.com

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More comics at muddlersbeat.com

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Hey folks! I’ll be at SPX this weekend, at table i3b, sharing space with Tyler Cohen. We’ll be between Bob Glasscock and Isabella Rotman, and we’ll have Matthew Monthei around to help, and it’ll be AWESOME. Plus I’m debuting a new book. SO COME.

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I will be at Emerald City Comic Con this weekend—Thursday-Friday March 2-5. I'll be with Lonnie Mann at table T10 on the 6th level. I'll have all my books, as well as prints, including a brand new scuba-themed pinup, "Dillon, Surfacing", which I'm very proud of. (It was my first time working with a live model.) Come see me there!

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That’s Not Who We Are

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A Whole Mess of Emotions

The point of these #unpresidented comics are about me processing everything I felt and went through between November 9th and January 20th, but I feel this one is going to apply for the next four years (maybe less if we’re lucky…). I still haven’t figured out to handle this horrible roller coaster of emotions. Who knows if I ever will?

Read all the #unpresidented comics here

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Here are all my hourly comics for the day, which also ran on twitter and Instagram. I've used hourly comics and a way to get out of my head and loosen up—to just make them quick and dirty. I feel that I may have gone TOO quick and dirty this time. But oh well.

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(In which I forget how to leave space for word balloons)

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