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…

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Released: The Funeral Singer

So proud of this new chapter in my life. My first artists’ book, and first publication for Janus Point Press: The Funeral Singer, published September 13th 2022. Limited edition artists’ book with foil stamping, custom silk book sleeve and curated arts and reading list, lightly scented in frankincense and myrrh. A story with an Einstein-Rosen…

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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….

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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…

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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…

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Out soon: WinC Magazine Issues 1-3 in PRINT

Women in Comics Collective International (WinC) is print publishing the 1st 3 issues of their magazine this month. Full-of-heart editorial letters, prose, poetry, comics. I have a comic in #1 with Rafael Romeo Magat (51 Solstice). While we wait… reviews go a long way for a group doing great things: Uplifting women in comics, paying…

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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…

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Graymalkin Lane Podcast with guest Dan Jurgens

I’m back on Graymalkin Lane Podcast, this time with host Chad and Anas Abdulhak, featuring an interview with Dan Jurgens. We smirked at rejected crush stories, enjoyed a ride through X-Men 52 (intro to Polaris), and at one point dissected whether she had agency on actions in this issue, and enjoyed Steranko art. Chad is…

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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.

Graymalkin Lane Podcast: X-Men 47, Featuring Phillip Kennedy Johnson

A wonderful time had on this podcast with host Chat, Seth Martel and Phillip Kennedy Johnson. This X-Men was a riot to review. I’ve spent more time in the East Village this month in this comic and the zine fair than my entire NYC life. While there is much to say about mentalists, Orientalism, dating…

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