Bitches on Comics

We interview Molly Naylor, script writer, poet, director, and performer, about her amazing new graphic novel with artist Lizzy Stewart: Lights, Planets, People! We discuss the gifts of creating across many different forms, why art and business make strange bedfellows, and get into the process of creating Lights, Planets, People! We also discuss why we need to see more older queer women making mistakes and finding a way through.

We interview filmmaker, comic critic, and generally badass human Monika Estrella Negra about one of her favorite comic book characters: Doctor Aphra. We talk about our deep love for this self-serving archaeologist and her salty exes. From issues with her dad to facing down Darth Vader himself, Chelli Aphra finds a way to double-deal, scheme, and backstab her way through the Star Wars universe.

We interview G. Romero Johnson and Tina Horn about their new graphic novel SFSX Volume 2: Terms of Service. We talk about queer and trans sex, technology, policing, sex robots, gender, horniness and every other sticky concept SFSX grapples with. We also get into Denis and Avory's stories and SWEET HERA, the Stacies. Y'all, the Stacies.

We interview Becky Cloonan (Gotham Academy, Wonder Woman) and Michael W. Conrad (Wonder Woman, Doom Patrol) about their new comic: Batgirls! We discuss how they first met Batman and the Bat Family, the balance of high stakes and hijinks in Batgirls, and why this comic we've all been waiting for totally rules.

We interview adrienne maree brown, author, Octavia E. Butler scholar, podcast host, and doula, about her new novella Grievers. We also get into the connection between organizing and speculative fiction, amb's deep love of Butler and Ursula LeGuin, and the power of creativity. Don't worry, we also dish on queerness and it's transformative power in fiction and life.

In this episode, we interview comic artist and writer Natasha Alterici. We discuss her epic, queer, Norse-mythology comic Heathen, her numerous zines, her great love for cover art, and, of course, we talk dinosaurs. Dino DNA! Don't miss this opportunity to hear from the dino queen herself!

In this episode we interview monster romance author Magen Cubed (Leather and Lace, In The Bedroom of Medusa) about the challenges facing queer creators, the purpose and power of self-publishing, her Leather and Lace characters Cash and Dorian, and so much more.

In today's episode, we interview authors Ada Hoffmann (The Outside, The Fallen) and R.B. Lemberg (The Four Profound Weaves, Birdverse). We talk about their fiction and get deep into neurodiversity and queer and trans representation in speculative fiction, discussing internality, pacing, trauma, and who gets to tell their own stories--and how.

In today's interview, we talk to return guest Danny Lore about everything they've been up to since last we spoke. They've just been writing Captain America and John Constantine and Wonder Woman and Zatanna and Transformers. No big. Danny's also been busy cooking up an original werewolf and supernatural comic Lunar Room. In this great conversation, we get into why some characters have to be reclaimed, what it means to see people as both good and evil, and so much more.

Today's interview is with Sarah Gailey, author of Magic for Liars, The Echo Wife, and much more. Sarah joins us to talk about their new comic Eat The Rich, out now. We get into why horror is so relatable, the lures and lies of wealth, how cannibalism and capitalism have more in common than a handful of letters, and what queer creators owe our audiences (hint: it's not perfection).