My article, “Reclaiming Diverse LGBTQ+ Comics Histories: Representing Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Gay Comix (1980–1998),” has been published as a feature article in an issue of Radical History Review focused on “Subversive Comics.”
Article: Making Lesbians Visible: Recovering the Social History of the 1990s Lesbian Comics Boom
My essay, “Making Lesbians Visible: Recovering the Social History of the 1990s Lesbian Comics Boom,” is out in Feminist Formations 37.1.
Article: Comics as Trans Literature
My essay, “Comics as Trans Literature,” has been published in the collection, The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature (Routledge, 2024).
Article: Interviews with Queer Cartoonists from the 1980s-1990s: Hope Barrett, N. Leigh Dunlap, Rebecca Gordon, Sina Shamsavari
My essay, “Interviews with Queer Cartoonists from the 1980s-1990s: Hope Barrett, N. Leigh Dunlap, Rebecca Gordon, Sina Shamsavari,” co-written with Ansley Burtch, Britney Megnath, Brooke Tymoniewicz, and Julia Whisenhunt is out in ImageTexT 14.3 and available open-access online.
Article: Of Anthologies and Activism: Building an LGBTQ+ Comics Community
My essay, “Of Anthologies and Activism: Building an LGBTQ+ Comics Community,” has been published in the collection, The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader: Critical Openings, Future Directions (University Press of Mississippi, 2022). It received an honorable mention for the Comics Studies Society’s 2023 Article Prize. The collection won an Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work.
Article: Around 1987: Don Melia and HIV/AIDS Comics
My essay, “Around 1987: Don Melia and HIV/AIDS Comics,” has been published in Comic Velocity: HIV & AIDS in Comics (2021), a catalog for a Visual AIDS exhibit curated by artist Paul Sammut.
Article: Servants to What Cause: Illustrating Queer Movement Culture through Grassroots Periodicals
My essay, “Servants to What Cause: Illustrating Queer Movement Culture through Grassroots Periodicals,” has been published in the collection, The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In (University Press of Mississippi, 2020). The University Press of Mississippi chose this chapter as the free excerpt to represent the book, so you can enjoy my chapter through the free PDF on the UPM website!
Article: Adjacent Genealogies, Alternate Geographies: The Outliers of Underground Comix & World War 3 Illustrated
My article, “Adjacent Genealogies, Alternate Geographies: The Outliers of Underground Comix & World War 3 Illustrated,” has been published in “The Counterpublics of Underground Comics” issue of iNKS (2019) that Leah Misemer and I co-edited.
Special Issue: “The Counterpublics of Underground Comics” in iNKS 3.1 (2019)
Leah Misemer and I co-edited issue 3.1 of iNKS: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society! Thanks to Jared Gardner, Qiana Whitted, and all of the iNKS folks for making this happen.
Article: From Julie Doucet to Gabrielle Bell: Feminist Genealogies of Comics Anthologies
My essay, “From Julie Doucet to Gabrielle Bell: Feminist Genealogies of Comics Anthologies,” has been published in the collection, The Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell: A Place Inside Yourself (University Press of Mississippi, 2019). The volume won the 2019 CSS Prize for best edited collection!