Bitches on Comics

Natasha Alterici returns to the pod to discuss her wonderfully sexy short story collection Sapphic Pulp! We discuss the gifts and challenges of creating queer erotica at this moment in time, the importance of hands to sapphic storytelling, and liberation through pleasure and sexuality! Plus, hope! Collaboration! Community! Resisting fascism by being slutty! And more!

Pick up your copy of Sapphic Pulp at: alterici.gumroad.com

Sapphic Pulp: Collected Tales of Love and Desire written by Natasha Alterici, edited by Michele Abounader, letters by Jodie Troutman, with art by Natasha Alterici, Sapphomet, Chloe Brailsford, Rye Hickman, Rachel Merrill, Fell Hound, Chloe Stawski, Skylar Patridge

Follow Natasha on BlueSky, Twitter, and Instagram

Listen to our deep dive into Heathen with Natasha on Episode 113: A queer young woman who wants to do good and don’t miss Episode 124 where Natasha answers a listener question about supporting queer comic creators.

You can sign up for the monthly-ish? Bitches on Comics newsletter on our website. Follow Bitches on Comics on Instagram Blusky Tumblr and TikTok @‌BitchesOnComics and you can learn more about host Monika Estrella Negra at: audresrevenge.weebly.com You can learn more about host S.E. Fleenor at sefleenor.com and follow them on Instagram and Blue Sky. Follow our Sound Editor Kate on Twitter.

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Bitches on Comics is a Queer Spec project. Check out our other projects! Learn more about Queer Spec at: QueerSpec.com

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Vera Drew joins us to discuss her indie feature film The People's Joker! We get into using comic book characters to tell autobiographical stories, the film's unconventional path to distribution, and turning a personal story into a collaborative creative process. Vera also discusses trans storytelling and humor, drops deep DC references, and just generally entertains our butts off!

Learn more about The People's Joker and grab your own DVD, BluRay, and swag at: http://www.thepeoplesjoker.com/

Follow Vera Drew at: @Veradrew22 on Twitter, IG, Twitter, Tiktok, and BlueSky (link goes to Instagram)

You can sign up for the monthly-ish? Bitches on Comics newsletter on our website. Follow Bitches on Comics on Instagram Blusky Tumblr and TikTok @‌BitchesOnComics and you can learn more about host Monika Estrella Negra at: audresrevenge.weebly.com You can learn more about host S.E. Fleenor at sefleenor.com and follow them on Instagram and Blue Sky. Follow our Sound Editor Kate on Twitter.

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Keep in touch with us, check out our curated listening lists, and see what we’re up to by visiting our website: BitchesOnComics.com

Bitches on Comics is a Queer Spec project. Check out our other projects! Learn more about Queer Spec at: QueerSpec.com

Please consider contributing to In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda, “a national-state partnership that amplifies and lifts the voices of Black women leaders to secure sexual and reproductive justice for Black women, girls, and gender-expansive people.” We support and appreciate their imperative work and hope you will join us.

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E.M. Carroll comes on the pod to talk about their comics WHEN I ARRIVED AT THE CASTLE and A GUEST IN THE HOUSE. When I Arrived at the Castle has a stunning new cover from Silver Sprocket and all the same goodness of the first printing. We get into Carroll’s creative process, the new cover, the long life of the comic, how they originally started creating it, and why horror comics rule. Plus, gay haunted houses! Their mom’s book club! Sexy scary ladies! And more!

Learn more about E.M. Carroll and check out many of their short comics (for free!) at: https://emcarroll.com/

Get your copy of When I Arrived at the Castle from Silver Sprocket.

Get A Guest in the House, published by First Second, wherever you get your books or here.

You can sign up for the monthly-ish? Bitches on Comics newsletter on our website. Follow Bitches on Comics on Instagram Blusky Tumblr and TikTok @‌BitchesOnComics and you can learn more about host Monika Estrella Negra at: audresrevenge.weebly.com You can learn more about host S.E. Fleenor at sefleenor.com and follow them on Instagram and Blue Sky. Follow our Sound Editor Kate on Twitter.

Show us some love by giving us a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, PodChaser, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Support us by joining our Patreon Community at patreon.com/queerspec.

Keep in touch with us, check out our curated listening lists, and see what we’re up to by visiting our website: BitchesOnComics.com

Bitches on Comics is a Queer Spec project. Check out our other projects! Learn more about Queer Spec at: QueerSpec.com

Please consider contributing to In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda, “a national-state partnership that amplifies and lifts the voices of Black women leaders to secure sexual and reproductive justice for Black women, girls, and gender-expansive people.” We support and appreciate their imperative work and hope you will join us.

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Jasmine Walls joins us to discuss her incredible comics Vixen: NYC, Midst: the Valorous Farmer, and Brooms. We talk about writing queer and trans stories, tapping into African mythology, and writing historical Black fiction. Walls shares how Brooms is a love letter to her own family, the importance of writing stories about joy, community, and found family, incorporating body diversity and disability into comics, and so much more.

Learn more about Jasmine Walls at: www.jasminewalls.com

Follow her on Instagram and BlueSky.

Don't miss Jasmine Walls and Teo DuVall in this spectacular interviews discussing Brooms with Priya Saxena.

You can sign up for the monthly-ish? Bitches on Comics newsletter on our website. Follow Bitches on Comics on Instagram Blusky Tumblr and TikTok @‌BitchesOnComics and you can learn more about host Monika Estrella Negra at: audresrevenge.weebly.com You can learn more about host S.E. Fleenor at sefleenor.com and follow them on Instagram and Blue Sky. Follow our Sound Editor Kate on Twitter.

Show us some love by giving us a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, PodChaser, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Support us by joining our Patreon Community at patreon.com/queerspec.

Keep in touch with us, check out our curated listening lists, and see what we’re up to by visiting our website: BitchesOnComics.com

And check out our narrative horror podcast Decoded Horror Channel which includes Graveyard Orbit, Tales of the Sapphire Bay Hotel, and more!

Bitches on Comics is a Queer Spec project. Check out our other projects! Learn more about Queer Spec at: QueerSpec.com

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In our first interview of the season, we talk to Caroline Cash, author of PeePee PooPoo. Cash tells us how she started in comics from art school to Quimby’s to Silver Sprocket. We also discuss autofic and how it can shield marginalized creators, creating a hyper-meta comic, and the importance of self-advocacy. Also, Chicago! Indie comics! Riverdale! Stardew Valley!

Pick up PeePee PooPoo from Silver Sprocket.

Follow Caroline Cash @‌cash_browns on Instagram

You can sign up for the bi-weekly Bitches on Comics newsletter on our website. Follow Bitches on Comics on Instagram Blusky Tumblr and TikTok @‌BitchesOnComics and you can learn more about host Monika Estrella Negra at: audresrevenge.weebly.com You can learn more about host S.E. Fleenor at sefleenor.com and follow them on Instagram and Blue Sky. Follow our Sound Editor Kate on Twitter.

Show us some love by giving us a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, PodChaser, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Support us by joining our Patreon Community at patreon.com/queerspec.

Keep in touch with us, check out our curated listening lists, and see what we’re up to by visiting our website: BitchesOnComics.com

And check out our narrative horror podcast Decoded Horror Channel which includes Graveyard Orbit, Tales of the Sapphire Bay Hotel, and more!

Bitches on Comics is a Queer Spec project. Check out our other projects! Learn more about Queer Spec at: QueerSpec.com

We hope you will consider contributing to the Gaza Relief campaign to Gaza Relief is "a Palestinian mutual aid project focused on supporting Palestinians surviving this genocide predominately through community kitchens as well as food and baby formula distributions for children in hospitals." We support their critical work.

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In this special 5th anniversary episode, the lovely bitches take a look back at the best of the best of BoC. Five years of laughs, five years of profound conversations, five years of comics, baby! Join Monika Estrella Negra and S.E. Fleenor for this retrospective and enjoy some clips from some of our many favorite episodes. (They’re all our favorites, tbh.)

Head to the BoC website for the complete show notes with links to all episodes mentioned in this episode.

You can sign up for the bi-weekly Bitches on Comics newsletter on our website. Follow Bitches on Comics on Instagram Blusky Tumblr and TikTok @‌BitchesOnComics and you can learn more about host Monika Estrella Negra at: http://audresrevenge.weebly.com You can learn more about host S.E. Fleenor at http://sefleenor.com and follow them on Instagram and Blue Sky. Follow our Sound Editor Kate on Twitter.

Show us some love by giving us a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, PodChaser, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Support us by joining our Patreon Community at http://patreon.com/queerspec .

Keep in touch with us, check out our curated listening lists, and see what we’re up to by visiting our website: BitchesOnComics.com

And check out our narrative horror podcast Decoded Horror Channel which includes Graveyard Orbit, Tales of the Sapphire Bay Hotel, and more!

Bitches on Comics is a Queer Spec project. Check out our other projects! Learn more about Queer Spec at: QueerSpec.com

We hope you will consider contributing to the Gaza Relief campaign. Gaza Relief is "a Palestinian mutual aid project focused on supporting Palestinians surviving this genocide predominately through community kitchens as well as food and baby formula distributions for children in hospitals." We support their critical work.

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We’re back, Bitches! Sara Century returns for a special bonus interview with Sarah Gailey and Liana Kangas! They discuss their deliciously dark murder mystery scifi comic KNOW YOUR STATION which is about so, so much more. Gailey and Kangas get into collaborating with someone who really understands you, playing around with scifi tropes, using gore and body horror to get the right comic rating, and so much more!

Pick up KNOW YOUR STATION wherever you get your comics!

Learn more about Sarah Gailey at: https://sarahgailey.com/

Follow Gailey on Instagram and Blue Sky

Listen to Gailey’s earlier appearance on BoC Episode 109 Cannibalism and capitalism

Learn more about Liana Kangas at: https://www.lianakangas.com/

Follow Kangas on Instagram and Blue Sky

Learn more about Sara Century at: https://saracentury.com/

Follow Sara Century on Instagram

You can follow Bitches on Comics on Instagram Blusky Tumblr and TikTok @‌BitchesOnComics and you can learn more about host Monika Estrella Negra at: audresrevenge.weebly.com You can learn more about host S.E. Fleenor at sefleenor.com and follow them on Instagram and Blue Sky. Follow our Sound Editor Kate on Twitter.

Show us some love by giving us a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, PodChaser, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Support us by joining our Patreon Community at patreon.com/queerspec.

Keep in touch with us, check out our curated listening lists, and see what we’re up to by visiting our website: BitchesOnComics.com

And check out our narrative horror podcast Decoded Horror Channel which includes Graveyard Orbit, Tales of the Sapphire Bay Hotel, and more!

Bitches on Comics is a Queer Spec project. Check out our other projects! Learn more about Queer Spec at: QueerSpec.com

We hope you will consider contributing to the Gaza Relief campaign to Gaza Relief is "a Palestinian mutual aid project focused on supporting Palestinians surviving this genocide predominately through community kitchens as well as food and baby formula distributions for children in hospitals." We support their critical work.

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Our Flashback Files, interviews previously published on Patreon and now available for all, continue with Sara Century speaking with Sharai Bohannon of A Nightmare on Fierce Street. This episode originally appeared on Patreon on October 31, 2022

Hi, everyone! This episode of Mediums of Horror is with Sharai Bohannon of the podcast Nightmare on Fierce Street, which she records with Trent Reese. We drag Stephen King (Sara's hobby), hype Candyman, and, you guessed it, talk about all the ways more inclusive horror is better horror. You can listen to the pod on any of your regular platforms, and you can follow Nightmare on Fierce Street and Sharai Bohannon on Twitter!

While Bitches on Comics is on hiatus to deal with some personal matters, we’re also busy behind the scenes making sure we come back stronger than ever. If you want to help us in this work, please support us by joining our Patreon Community where you can hear over 100 great interviews and episodes like the one you’re listening to right now!

You can follow Bitches on Comics on Instagram Blusky Hive Tumblr TikTok and Twitter @‌BitchesOnComics and you can follow our hosts: Sara Century: @‌saracentury (Instagram), S.E. Fleenor: @‌se_fleenor (Instagram, Blue Sky, and Twitter), and Monika Estrella Negra: Instagram and Twitter. Follow our Sound Editor Kate on Twitter.

Show us some love by giving us a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, PodChaser, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Support us by joining our Patreon Community.

Keep in touch with us and see what we’re up to by visiting our website: BitchesOnComics.com

And check out our new narrative horror podcast Decoded Horror Channel which includes Graveyard Orbit, Tales of the Sapphire Bay Hotel, and more!

Bitches on Comics is a Queer Spec project. Check out our other projects_! Learn more about Queer Spec at: _QueerSpec.com

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Our Flashback Files, interviews previously published on Patreon and now available for all, continue with Sara Century speaking with Alexandra Velasco and Thais Castralli about avant garde horror filmmaking. This episode originally appeared on Patreon on October 10, 2022

This is a delightful interview with two incredibly well-versed horror, avant-garde, and film aficionados chatting with me about why experimental film and horror go so well together.

There are a few things you should check out ASAP, including the film that's under discussion here, The Seventh Circle. It's short and amazing so give it a shot!

You can keep up with Alexandra Velasco on her website and/or IG!

You can follow Thais Castralli on her website and/or IG!

This interview was set up by Black Magic Cameras, which are extremely cool so check 'em out if you're doing filming!

While Bitches on Comics is on hiatus to deal with some personal matters, we’re also busy behind the scenes making sure we come back stronger than ever. If you want to help us in this work, please support us by joining our Patreon Community where you can hear over 100 great interviews and episodes like the one you’re listening to right now!

You can follow Bitches on Comics on Instagram Blusky Hive Tumblr TikTok and Twitter @‌BitchesOnComics and you can follow our hosts: Sara Century: @‌saracentury (Instagram), S.E. Fleenor: @‌se_fleenor (Instagram, Blue Sky, and Twitter), and Monika Estrella Negra: Instagram and Twitter. Follow our Sound Editor Kate on Twitter.

Show us some love by giving us a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, PodChaser, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Support us by joining our Patreon Community.

Keep in touch with us and see what we’re up to by visiting our website: BitchesOnComics.com

And check out our new narrative horror podcast Decoded Horror Channel which includes Graveyard Orbit, Tales of the Sapphire Bay Hotel, and more!

Bitches on Comics is a Queer Spec project. Check out our other projects! Learn more about Queer Spec at: QueerSpec.com

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mark your calendar for the return of Bitches on Comics on September 4, 2024! And, baby, that's our FIFTH ANNIVERSARY! WHAT!!!

Check out our trailer for our return in a few weeks with a brand new episode!

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