A trans frog girl in her early thirties encounters trouble on a snowy New Year’s on her bike, which sets off a chain of memories. CW: hit & run accident, mild blood, suicide reference

I, Lancelot Content Warning: themes & discussion of parental abuse

Hazel Newlevant is a cartoonist whose comics include If This Be Sin and No Ivy League, and the editor of the comics anthologies Chainmail…

[This essay was funded through Patreon under the ZEAL project. ZEAL aims to provide high quality criticism of rarely discussed games and comics, and showcase the talents of exciting new writers and artists. For details and information on how to donate, please check out our Patreon!] THE LANGUAGES OF DRAWING Everybody codeswitches all the…

Miyamoto, Maddin’s ‘My Winnipeg,’ and my grandfather’s dollhouse — Dollhouses Koji Kondo’s familiar refrain from Zelda picks up quickly in the beginning of the Nintendo 3DS game The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (2013). The game uses the same overworld as the popular Super Nintendo entry The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (1991), and the…

Two early queer graphic novels, racism in early comics, and the next generation of radical cartoonists [This essay was written by Annie Mok and funded through Patreon under the ZEAL project. ZEAL aims to provide high quality criticism of rarely discussed games and comics, and showcase the talents of exciting new writers and artists. …

On Tove Jansson, love, loss, the Moomins, and making it through the winter Secret Names I poured myself into drawings and stories, always, especially when my body and speech felt too small to contain the galaxies inside me. When people foisted narratives onto me, I locked onto fictions that held the possibilities…

All photos by Maggie Eighteen.