Plus, Nico Minoru is a fortune-telling goth mutant with a magnifying glass in the Ultimate universe. I love love LOVE Runaways so it really got me!

The art is amazing, obviously, since it's Peach Momoko doing interiors again(finally!). But the story is also so fresh from Marvel since it's Peach doing beautiful water-color manga set in the classic setting of a Japanese school. I hope she keeps getting full cartoonist work from the big houses

In other "stuff I'm reading right now," I just finished the first trade of @peachmomoko.bsky.social Ultimate X-Men. I've been enjoying a lot of the new Ultimate line, but Peach's is definitely the most original of them all(the rest are just really well-written capes comics).

or the overwhelming joy of a child's song. If you're a big Fantagraphics reader, I do think Stone Fruit fits very well in Fanta's library, but its quality shines through. Stone Fruit will persist as a piece of the queer canon. I hope to see some really excellent scholarship about Lee in the future.

Like Machado's memoir, Lee's craft in Stone Fruit follows a well-established, but organic framework. Lee uses the four-panel grid on almost every page, a layout that fosters a quiet, emotional, and thoughtful reading experience and forces its readers to confront the emotional weight of a silence,

Lee's work reminds me of Carmen Maria Machado's In the Dream House, which blends theory, memoir, and magical realism in a rich representation of the fluidity and inexpressibility of queerness and desire.

Comics offer cartoonists the ability to play with the body in relation to the mind and the self, and Lee's characters exist as free monsters when running through the woods like children, and realistic understated realism when experiencing the difficulties of queerness in the adult world.

This is such a book. I see so much of myself and my relationship to love in this comic. In my reviews I often talk about comics as a form that is uniquely able to portray queer subjectivity in all its depth, and I think Lee's book is an epitome of this idea.

I sat down today and read this incredible book from Lee Lai and @fantagraphics.bsky.social occasionally I read a book that depicts the deep difficulties of queerness in such an unflinching manner that I find myself having to put it down ever few minutes and take a deep breath.

it's not FOR us

Everyone go check out my Fanbase Press review of one of my children’s comic favs!!

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Loved reading and writing about this book!!

My newest review!

‘Adabana: Volume 1’ (@darkhorse.com): Advance Trade Paperback by Fanbase Press Guest Contributor @janethesturgeon.bsky.social

Letterer Appreciation Day! Here is some Daniel Clowes lettering:

My newest review for @comicsjournal.bsky.social is of Simon Hanselmann's latest self-published series "You Will Own Nothing and Be Happy," a thrilling, horrifying, and depressing zombie romp.
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For my newest article for @comicsjournal.bsky.social , I interviewed Sam Szabo, author of Enlightened Transsexual Comix among other things! We talk Valerie Solanas, undergrounds, Lynda Barry and much much more!
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My latest review, this time for Fanbase Press, super fun book!

A great new collection from @boom-studios.com and a wonderful review from @fanbasepress.bsky.social's newest contributor, @janethesturgeon.bsky.social! (Welcome to the team, Tate!)

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Another old review for @comicsjournal.bsky.social because I’m finally getting on this app. This one of Alex Graham’s The Devil’s Grin Vol. 1 from @fantagraphics.bsky.social

Another review for @comicsjournal.bsky.social this one from a while back of @tarabooth.bsky.social 's Processing: 100 Comics That Got Me Through It from @fantagraphics.bsky.social
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This is my latest review for @comicsjournal.bsky.social of Face Meat by Bonten Taro translated by Ryan Holmberg for @livingtheline.bsky.social
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