Bitches on Comics

We talk to Juliana Hyrri about her stunning graphic short story collection The Nightingale That Never Sang. We also get into representations of children, what it’s like working in multiple media, translating their work to English from Finnish, lettering her comic in multiple languages, and the unexpected success of the collection. Juliana is an absolute delight!

Learn more about The Nightingale That Never Sang at: Featherproof.com

Follow Juliana Hyrri at: @julianahyrri

Learn more about Juliana at: julianahyrri.com

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We talk to the lovely Eliza Victoria about her graphic novel After Lambana: Myth and Magic in Manila, her novel Wounded Little Gods, and how these books came together. Eliza tells us about the process of scripting a comic, seeing her characters and world on the page, and working with artist Mervin Malonzo. We also get into her creative process, writing in English, and telling distinctly Filipino stories. Plus, thermostats! Backgrounds! Easter eggs! And more!

Learn more about After Lambana: Myth and Magic in Manila, Wounded Little Gods, and Eliza Victoria at: ElizaVictoria.com

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

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Keep in touch with us 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

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In this week's episode, we answer a listener question about WandaVision, what the adaptation gets right and where it fails, and what comics we'd love to see adapted or not. We get into the erasure of Wanda's Jewish and Romani identities and so much more. We also discuss some of our favorite comics that could be adapted for the screen, from Monstress to Infidel, and the few we find wholly unadaptable.

Make sure to read Jessica Reidy's article "As a Romani witch, I can't stand WandaVision".

Our Comic of the Week is: LaGuardia written by Nnedi Okorafor, art by Tana Ford, colors by James Devlin, letters by Sal Cipriano.

"Some of the best meditations on what makes a life worth saving." - S.E. Fleenor

"The art is absolutely gorgeous. " - Sara Century

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In this episode, we answer a question about how gendered violence changes when it’s against LGBTQ+ characters, go deep on the Bury Your Gays trope (aka Dead Lesbian Syndrome), and explore the awesomeness that is our Comic of the Week: ABBOTT by Saladin Ahmed.

Content Warnings for this episode: mentions of violence against LGBTQ+ folks, queerphobia, transphobia, and racism.

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Our Flashback Files, interviews previously published on Patreon and now available for all, continue with Sara Century talking early Vertigo comics with Sam Richard of Weirdpunk Books. This episode originally appeared on Patreon on Nov 5, 2023.

Hello hello! This episode features Sam Richard and focuses primarily on the work of Peter Milligan, who wrote Shade the Changing Man and Enigma in the very early Vertigo days (among other things, those are the ones we talk about here). If you recall we prematurely announced this episode that is just now going live, and that's because it actually turned into a massive two-part conversation! So, apologies for the delay, but on the plus side, you get like three times the content I thought you were gonna get. So, enjoy, and come back for part two later this month!

Meanwhile, Sam is a great horror writer in his own right, as well as the person behind Weirdpunk Books (they published Sara's horror anthology last year, A Small Light & Other Stories). You can follow Sam across platforms @‌sammytotep and @‌weirdpunkbooks and you can find everything Weirdpunk at the website. If you like early Vertigo, Weirdpunk isn't exactly a direct successor but I think you'll find some spiritual crossover so be sure to check out their releases!

You can hear Sam talk more about Weirdpunk in this BoC episode, and you can hear Sara talk more about Weirdpunk in this one.

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