The 2022 Chautauqua Janus Prize lecture “Jean, Janus & Comic Book Realism” is now available in chapbook and ebook form. The chapbook that takes you down a wormhole (or two) in handmade, saddle-stitched form. And ebook. And anthology t-shirt bundles. Oh my! Chock-full of craft, comic book realism, family history, historical notes for Puerto Rico…
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Coming 2024: “It Ain’t This But That”
Nova Odyssey returns in 2024 in comics format… I and cousin Aaron Guzman have a graphic prose story in the upcoming anthology : From Cocinas To Lucha Libre Ringsides: Latinographix Stories of Sports’ Food & Madness publishing in 2024 with Ohio State University Press. Alongside some amazing comics people, Aaron and I have the story…
The Harmonics of Zeus + Δione
Last year was my “Lando” year, life lived from a book with a “humorous take on how to get what you want (and how to look good doing it) with the help of Lando Calrissian (Be More Lando)”. It meant gamble with things, take risks (I submitted myself to, then won a prestigious literary award),…
Crowdfunding Panel KCU
Listen to a recording of the panel I was on in June 2023 with some Kids Comics Unite community members talking about the variety of our crowdfunding experiences and tips for your literary publications.
Black Eyes
A morning short short, written after breakfast coffee along the Aegean. Browsing an art gallery, on the way out, I happened to point out to a gentleman that I got a sense was part of the gallery, on a piece being, by the way, particularly stunning. “Why, thank you,” he said. I stopped in the…
Excerpt Read of The Funeral Singer
A devastating and soulful read is Menis’s Koumandareas’s Their Smell Makes Me Want To Cry. Full of retrospective look into Greek and Athenian life of fading foundations together with modern realities, and also some very unsettling stereotypes/cliches that make me uneasy… there are a few lines that gutted me, enough to reenact the lives of…
Book Readings in Athens, Greece
I look forward to visiting this special bookstore! Event invite: https://fb.me/e/2Qw4LDDdn Missed it? Here is a recording, thanks Cyrus! https://www.instagram.com/p/CtzLBh2BtJQ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== You can also catch me on Zoom 6/14 with Kids Comics Unite on a panel on Crowdfunding.
Loisaida Festival 2023
Stephanie will be vending at the 2023 Loisaida Festival Sunday May 28th 2023, 12pm-5pm, hawking her literary goods. This is a great chance to see the plethora of the mediums I work in, that have deep roots in Puerto Rican-Nuyorican culture. Zines that disrupt Latinx brand loyalty, zines that tease, zines that mourn. Anthologies like…
Wormholes in Iowa: Teaching at Cornell College
My trip to Cornell College was a three day delight. Graciously hosted every step of the way and greeted by some sharp students eager to create “wormholes” in their graphic storytelling narratives. In workshop over two days we walked through my shared works like “Andromeda” and DR163 and broke down their layers (emphasizing the important role history…
Broken Pencil Magazine Releases Review: Maria
Read the review.
