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Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith
A fictional and complex portrait of bestselling author Patricia Highsmith caught up in the longing that would inspire her queer classic, The Price of Salt Flung Out of Space is both a love letter to the essential lesbian novel, The Price of Salt, and an examination of its notorious author, Patricia Highsmith. Veteran comics creators…
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The New Queer Conscience
Pocket Change Collective was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. Space to be yourself. And this is your invitation to join us. In The New Queer Conscience, LGBTQIA+ activist Adam Eli argues the urgent need for queer responsibility — that queers anywhere are responsible for queers everywhere. Pocket…
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Beginner’s Guide to Digital Zines
One half of the beloved writer/artist team of Sister Claire has made a free zine for aspiring creators out there! It’s a quite pretty presentation akin to a slideshow that outlines the digital version of the modern zine, capturing how easy it is to create and how to promote it. It’s a very handy little…
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Life with Picasso
Francoise Gilot was a young painter in Paris when she first met Picasso – he was sixty-two and she was twenty-one. During the following ten years they were lovers, worked closely together and she became mother to two of his children, Claude and Paloma. Life with Picasso, her account of those extraordinary years, is filled…
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Copycat Recipes 2
When you have a craving for your favorite restaurant meal or treat, but don’t have the money to eat out , don’t fret! You can make many of your favorite recipes , from starters to dessert, at home ! Your kitchen just became your new favorite restaurant. Finding something you love at one of your…
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The Nib: The Death Issue
It’s a wild subject to start on, and it addresses statistics, perspectives, and the current sciences surrounding death. The comics are insightful. Funny. Not always something I agree with, but it does open up more about what people are thinking about when they approach death. The sacredness of the act of dying, the fear of…
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Queer Code
Honestly, a big agree with Panic Volkushka on this. The sense of seeing queerness in the strange and the villainous is a big one. Included is also a nice long list of recommended films to check out as well.
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Ten Days in a Madhouse
Ten Days in a Mad-House is a book written by newspaper reporter Nellie Bly and published by Norman L. Munro in New York, NY in 1887. The book comprised Bly’s reportage for the New York World while on an undercover assignment in which she feigned insanity to investigate reports of brutality and neglect at the…
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A Life Turned Upside Down: My Dad’s an Alcoholic
A moving autobiographical manga about her father’s alcoholism that inspired a critically acclaimed live-action film. Mariko Kikuchi tells the painful story of her father’s alcoholism and her own journey through guilt to understanding her father’s illness. She rejects the common belief that family members can and should be forgiven for anything they do, no matter…
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Button Power: 125 Years of Saying It with Buttons
I love buttons.