To foster awareness, appreciation, and discussion of queer sequential art and its creators
To become an educational resource of queer experiences, storytelling, and critical theory
So we have a team of multicolored superheroes, and underneath their helmets their skin tones and races are also a wide spectrum. That’s great! …but do they actually acknowledge their differences and struggles?
Due to the mainstream media’s slow acceptance of (and oftentimes outright refusal to) include LGBT elements in a positive light, fans have taken it upon themselves to correct these omissions.
While “shonen” has become shorthand for “action/adventure” outside of Japan, it literally just stands for its target audience: young boys. Would they be able to identify with Kim who fits the expected personality type perfectly?
These people look like me, these don’t; these people think like me while these others don’t; and these people fall in love the same way I do, but those people don’t. Using factors like these to create categories can be argued to be inevitable, but what can be disputed is how they’re based on binaries.
These days, texting (the telegraph’s contemporary descendent) might not play such a pivotal role in fiction, but it does provide a rich, layered narrative and visual medium, especially when employed in comics.
An outcast is a person who suffers rejection due to factors outside of their control such as cultural background, race, skin color, and sexuality. Because of the way sexual minorities have been treated historically, the outcast character trope is almost eponymous with queer media.
As many — if not all — queer people can attest, coming out is not a simple process. The obvious anxiety and fear of rejection aside, coming out is far from a one time done deal.
While the chapter starts in the pale light of Louis’s house, it suddenly bursts with bright pinks and purples, and among those happy colors lie some other telling ones.
The main theme of Autophobia is made loud and clear from its title: the fear of being alone. For Louis, this comes down to the way his anxiety rules his thoughts whenever he is alone, which then results in bouts of self-loathing.