My first Event Horizon focused interview is up with StoryComic and the wonderful Barney Smith. Gives you a sneak peek into the Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign and its rewards, which are the discounted and exclusive offer preorders for the book. Always fun to window shop before the big event on 4/9 11amEST. We also discuss the process…
Category: Press
Broken Pencil Magazine Releases Review: Maria
Read the review.
Storycomic, LIVE 9/29/22 8pm EST
Back with Barney! I’ll be on Storycomic live to talk about The Funeral Singer, Janus Point Press and whatever Barney has in store, tomorrow Thursday Sept 29th 2022 8pm EST. I love doing his show because it’s usually all smiles. Heavier topics to cover with The Funeral Singer, for sure, but all smiles for the…
Jean, Janus and Comic Book Realism: 2022 Chautauqua Janus Prize Lecture
“Jean, Janus and Comic Book Realism”… Happy to share the recording Cyrus did of my Janus Prize Lecture and Ceremony at the Chautauqua Institution! It includes some snapshots at the end, highlighting how the Institution honors and celebrates its artists. The lecture is a trip down wormholes, genre-bending, comic book realism, Nuyorican & Puerto Rican…
Broken Pencil Magazine Reviews Maria
Broken Pencil Magazine just published a lovely review of one of my zines as ANDROMEDA, Maria in their summer 2022 issue #96. Maria is the non-fiction seed to my story “Jean”, and its novel. The review is by Joshua Barton, and it’s detailed and in depth, as well as having a lovely voice to its writing….
Covid Chronicles in: Drawing us Together, Exhibit at Harvard
COVID Chronicles is included in this interactive exhibition: Drawing Us Together: Public Life and Public Health in Contemporary Comics | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Runs 9/19 2022-Dec 17th 2022, opening reception ONLINE for a discussion which you can join 9/22 4pm on Zoom. My stories with Aaron Guzman and Seth Martel…
Receiving the Janus Prize and Lecturing at Chautauqua
It was a great honor, and a week full of love, receiving the Janus Prize from the Chautauqua Institution this August 2022. Snapshots from the ceremony for “Jean” . My lecture was Jean, Janus and Comic Book Realism. It wove astrophysics, genre-bending in identity and literature, comic book realism in Latinx literature, Puerto Rican and UWS…
Vote Speculative! Utopia Awards Now Open
New month and it’s a new opportunity to vote for #SpecualtiveFictionforDreamers published by Ohio State University Press/Mad Creek Books ! Vote for your favorite finalists in categories for utopian literature and art published in 2021. 8/1 through 10:00 p.m. PST on August 21, 2022. https://www.android-press.com/2022-utopia-award-nominees Speculative Fiction for Dreamers has been nominated for four awards…
World Fantasy Award Nomination: Speculative Fiction for Dreamers
It’s another award nomination for #SpeculativeFictionforDreamers A World Fantasy Award ! If you haven’t bought your copy yet: https://chautauquabookstore.com/book/9780814257982Also remember your local library. So happy to be visiting Chautauqua soon to receive the Janus Prize for “Jean” in this anthology.
