Literary fiction with flair. Ask Stephanie, and she’ll say she writes comic book realism.
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“In both fiction and nonfiction there’s a sense of unflinching honesty; the reader knows she can trust you.”
– Juror, Sustainable Arts Foundation
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NOVELS & COLLECTIONS
To Love Like Venus
This book requires a trip to Venus, which means
immense heat, crushing pressure, and the risk of getting burned.
Did we mention this is the planet of love?
Published March 2nd, 2026
Janus Point Press
“Pitsirilos has crafted a compelling exploration of what it means to be human, weaving together themes of artificial intelligence, environmental degradation, mother-son relationships, and the difficulty of modern love. […]A scintillating modern love story that will leave a lasting impression.”
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“A radical, sex-positive exploration of the necessity for love with sex. Even in the future, this is the ongoing, pivotal question we must answer for ourselves. To Love Like Venus though, shows us that that question can also obfuscate all the ways we really love.”
— Ivelisse Rodriguez, author of Love War Stories
“A bold and seductive work of art.”
— Laura Pegram, Editor in Chief of Kweli
“[…]To Love Like Venus is crafted with a sense of mythical realism. Data analysis and musings on reproductive biology are described with the same reverence as celestial bodies and fanciful beings, confronting a messy reality of love in an era of precision.”
— The BookLife Prize
Alita, a whiz at helping AI extract marketable trends from human sex behavior datasets, tries her hand at love.
So you like literary romance, steam, intellect and family dynamics? You love a dive into a New York City in the 2050s from a native New Yorker’s perspective, through the eyes of a woman following her heart and intuition, a woman who loves to roller disco. You can hear the siren song of the Greek isles inviting you to journey there. And you like literary fiction. Or you want to like literary fiction but need it with a little more flair. Maybe you want your romance with a little more literary?
This is your book.
To Love Like Venus is a literary novel in a near-future setting that’s all about love and relationships and how we cope with their heights and disappointments—whether in partner, ideals or the symbols that become our children.
My debut novel. Kickstarted as a “Project We Love” and listed on Kickstarter’s Bookshop page as a “brilliant book brought to life on Kickstarter” and entering the publishing world with a coveted starred Kirkus Review. A featured Ingram’s Indie Early Buzz for March releases and Publishers Weekly BookLife Indie Spotlight for February Romance. Library Staff Pick. Visit the website for more.
Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back
“Compelling scientific and emotional explorations that raise the question: What awaits us when we cross the line?… Pitsirilos has assembled an eclectic roster of creators from many different mediums, resulting in a work that is diverse in both forms and perspectives… All should prove a delight for SF aficionados.” –Kirkus Reviews. Read the full review here.
Art by: BlusterOne; Cyrus Amir Boquín; Karen S. Darboe; Cris Delara; Gabriela Downie; Aaron Guzman; Galen Ihlenfeldt; Kroniko; Rafael Romeo Magat; Seth Christian Martel; Eric Nguyen; Anton Oxenuk; Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos; Armando Ramirez; Tracy168.
With introductions by:
Dr. Frederick Luis Aldama (Professor Latinx). An award-winning author of over 50 fiction, comics, animation shorts, and scholarly books. He is an inductee of the National Cartoonist Society, Texas Institute of Letters and Ohio State University’s ODI Hall of Fame. He is founder and director of the Latinx Pop Lab and holds the Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas, Austin.
Dr. Marcel Agüeros. Professor of astronomy at Columbia University who enjoys tackling classic questions in stellar evolution and examining the environments that stars like the Sun create for their planets. Recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Barack Obama.
Dr. Mariana Espinosa Aldama. Physicist, visual artist, and science researcher specializing in communicating cosmology, gravitation, and foundations of physics through images and data visualizations. Member of the Mathematical Modeling of Social Systems Department at the Research Institute on Applied Mathematics and Systems at UNAM.
Karen S. Darboe Main Cover
“Compelling scientific and emotional explorations that raise the question: What awaits us when we cross the line?… Pitsirilos has assembled an eclectic roster of creators from many different mediums, resulting in a work that is diverse in both forms and perspectives… All should prove a delight for SF aficionados.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Yes, we write Sci-Fi, too! By having the courage to place Latinx feminist issues in space and in futuristic settings, Pitsirilos has lifted Latinx literature from the flat earth most of our fiction is set.”
—Ernesto Quiñonez, author of Bodega Dreams
“Event Horizon transcends traditional storytelling, creating a kaleidoscopic experience that blends scientific curiosity with profound human insights. Stephanie’s ability to navigate the complexities of astrophysical phenomena and existential dilemmas makes this collection a must-read for science fiction and literary art fans. The book promises a journey as unpredictable and mesmerizing as the cosmos itself, encouraging readers to reflect on their own “event horizons” in life.”
—Barney Smith, StoryComic
“Much like the title, reading this collection is a breaking point into the un/known. Is it a black hole? A supernova? A solar flare? This is a remarkable collection of bright visionary talent. When you started reading, it was the past, and when you finish reading this collection, you will be in the future; these stories will linger on and light new paths.”
—Shamika A. Mitchell, Ph.D. Editor-in-Chief, WinC Magazine
Sci-Fi, Sensual & Literary
my debut short story collection told in prose, comics, canvas work and photography. Publishing December 2024.
Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back is a prose-driven collection of stories themed around the astrophysical phenomenon of black holes and their unforgiving boundaries of “no return”—their event horizons. What arises is a tantalizing question for characters grappling with cosmic decisions in their lives, whether in their living rooms, on space stations or exoplanets: what awaits on the other side of the “event horizon”? An array of celebrated artists help answer this through the sequential art of comics, canvas work, and photography. The collection is introduced by comics, prose and astrophysics academia.
244 pages full color: 6 prose stories with art. 3 short comics. 1 one-shot comic (25 pages). 3 letters of introductions by academia. Original canvas work. Original photography throughout. Successfully funded on Kickstarter in May 2024 as a “Project We Love”. Order Here. For more about the book, visit Janus Point Press. Download our Press Release and book summary.
SHORT STORY CHAPBOOKS
& ARTISTS’ BOOKS
The Funeral Singer
A story with an Einstein-Rosen Bridge between 1922 Anatolia and 1944 Greece: Haunting memories and buried desire are resurrected by the funeral song as war binds the lives of a widow, refugee, and partisan soldier fighting for the liberation of Greece. Limited 100 print artists’ book, published on the 100-year anniversary of The Great Catastrophe. September 13th 2022. Janus Point Press. Visit Janus Point Press tolearn more and to order. For more information, here’s our gifting sheet.
Eye on the Prize
The adventures of Nova Odyssey (“Jean”, Jesus Christ Rides the K Train) continue in this 20 page full color chapbook, 4.5K words of prose.
A numbers-running-comic-book-reading preteen turns her grandmother into an unwitting loan shark, in a salsa-infused household where love’s for sale and liable to get stolen.
A few salsa songs get a nod here, but the main feature is “Ojos” by Willie Colón and Rubén Blades, written by Johnny Ortiz.
Nova Odyssey is in a bind. Grandma’s given the boot to her bookmaker boyfriend, Juan, and has instructed Nova to run this week’s bolita numbers for her instead. Nova, though, already spent the money Grandma had given her—on comic books, so what was she gonna tell bodega owner Yason? Her aunt and uncle meanwhile are in their typical tug-of-war of the hearts in that Cecelia has too much of one, and Marcus, like an “Ojos” crooning Ruben Blades, is all eyes. The showdown for these household characters happens at the bombazo in the projects’ courtyard: Nova’s chancleta fate, Juan’s quest for a Trojan Horse back into Grandma’s life, and a conclusion to her aunt’s heartache that would make Lieutenant Columbo proud. Purchase here.
Jesus Christ Rides the K Train
The adventures of Nova Odyssey (“Jean”, Jesus Christ Rides the K Train) continue!
WHAT DOES JESUS CHRIST LOOK LIKE?
Grab a subway token, fall into a wormhole, and take a ride on the K Train.
This short zine is an excerpt of the novel The Saints of Columbus by Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos. It features original photography, black book art by Tracy168 and art by Aaron Guzman. Designed by ANDROMEDA with template “MyTeamArt”. Full color, 8 pages plus cover and back. Limited publication, January 2024. Purchase here.
NOVELLA
DR163
We’ve got a really cool series on Webtoons and online: DR163! A long-lost graffiti artist and trauma surgeon form an unlikely friendship when the magic of their hands turns them into midnight vigilantes. Aaron Guzman‘s art is a magical scroll down a mind-bending story of a doctor in need of healing and the artist who has the medicine. You can share the love by reading it and engaging in heartfelt comments. Webtoons are best viewed on your phones. Detailed instructions for those new to Webtoons here. FREE. #CuzComics
You can also view the comic, free and outside of Webtoons, on our own website. Scroll away!
ESSAYS
A second visit to The Museum of Sex, with an eye on Utopia
The Museum of Sex
The Museum of Sex: A Tour & Reflections on its Tunnels
Pairs well with To Love Like Venus and Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back. Non-fiction essay and photographs exploring themes and scenes in these books.
Fresh with a public health degree but moonlighting as a receptionist in a black tunnel of a Chelsea club, a young woman declines a job offer at a new museum: The Museum of Sex.
Twenty years later she revisits the tunnel and enters the museum for a tour of where adulthood has landed them both.
This chapbook-sized zine tours the Museum of Sex in New York City for the curious during November 2022, and reflects on my personal connection to it as well as the larger themes women collectively and differently experience in pleasure and the circus of image and desire. Prose essay with photographs.
This is a handmade zine: the black cardstock cover has a die-cut design (but done by hand) to peer into a hot pink page with book title, and a second cut in the shape of a tunnel where you see a pleasurable photograph of a woman posing bare, with her back to us. Turn the page and you see the book’s subtitle, another die-cut layer of a tunnel framing the woman, until you turn the page for the full photograph. The back cover of the book also plays with this tunnel die-cut design, where you peer into the hot pink page for the zine’s description. Saddle-stitched by hand with black wax thread, for a sexy book bind. Cut lines are free of conformity. Nineteen pages of text, full color with photographs throughout.
This zine is not affiliated with The Museum of Sex or other external entities outside of ANDROMEDA: it is a perzine fanzine. Purchase here.
What happened to Annie? (newsletter subscribers)
A Venusian journey through Greek vineyards to pair with your meal, love and the book To Love Like Venus. This chapbook is twelve pages of full color, plus cover and back. Hand sewn with delicate gold thread. Also available as an ebook.
Black Eyes, a morning short short, written after breakfast coffee along the Aegean.
JAWS, THE MILK-DRINKING KIND. Featured on Salud America! Motherhood, pop culture, mythology, public health advocacy and feminism meet in this humorous essay on the challenges and triumphs of breastfeeding.
THE SEXUALIZATION OF QUERY: HOW SNAGGING AN AGENT HAS BECOME A GAME OF CUPID Pondering the query dating game of writers seeking agents.
MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH THE MANDARIN
A woman’s steamy account of her love affair… with a luxury hotel. Short story meets Essay meets Travel Review. Available for purchase as a handcrafted litzine and artbook.
GRAPHIC NOVEL PROPOSALS
KLON
read the first chapter in Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back. Logo by Kroniko.
A mineral in the moon’s Sea of Islands mends the Achilles heel of human DNA—
aging—offering clones a life span long denied. How long can the Antillano family
leverage this secret before the world discovers that the end of human fertility has
birthed the beginnings of human immortality?
On the eve before the last wild strand of human DNA degrades on earth,
Runners are scavenging human burial sites. Reproductive cloning has kept the
human race alive but against the wishes of Charon’s Children—a religious order
that believes the dead belong to history. For most of Puertopia—an island with
a robust Bitcoin banking center, solar farms, lunar mining and gene therapy
monopolies—the price of cloning is shortened life spans.
Clone age has caught up with Ramon, an Antillano teen with one wish: to
reach the moon before he dies. After generations of family lunar mining, an
unexpected door opens when an Antillano brings back an illustrious mineral
shown to suspend aging, giving clones a life span long denied. If the Antillano
family can harvest this secret, it means saving clones like Ramon. But it also
means accepting that they are not an arbitrary collection of pre-twentysecond-
century DNA: they are the orchestration of a single DNA archivist with
grand plans for the islands of the Antilles. And accepting immortality means
remaining a character in his story. No matter a clone’s individual decision, one
fact cannot be escaped: the end of human fertility has birthed the beginnings of
human immortality. This means reckoning with Charon’s Children. And there
is a price to pay for the fantasy of ignoring what we inherit, whether from our
genes or from human history.
Sisters of the Attic Sun
Pitch Package and art by Aaron Guzman
Some girls have sweet sixteens. Some get quinceñeras. If you’re a nut-tree sister, your party to young womanhood is leading a procession with your mother to the beach and leaving an offering to the sea. Mom’s your aunt, actually, the war vet who raised you and your five sisters (okay, half-sisters) until one of you was suddenly taken away from the house. Which no one talks about. Except if you’re Corri.
Corri’s the last sister to move out of the storied house with sun-drenched porches that sits on a hill above the city. It also has a wishing well, a salty uncle, Aunt Lucy’s pet snake who lives under a rock by the front door and—the most amazing attic light. Corri’s got quite the to-do list before she flies the coop, with everyone coming back for her ceremony and the city’s quadrennial summer carnival. Not only does Corri have to figure out how to say goodbye to Aunt Lucy, but as the sappy, crazy-glue of the family, she wants all loose ends tied up in a neat fuchsia bow. That means tracking down Carya. Which doesn’t seem humanly possible given that her only footprints are in her sisters’ memories. Luckily for Corri she’s offered help from the metalsmith next-door who’s no stranger to Aunt Lucy’s other-world rituals. He says he’ll forge special charms that’ll bring Carya back—if Corri can extract unique elements from each sister to add to the metal, with their consent.
In a contemporary reimagining of the Porch of the Caryatids of Erechtheion—six maiden statues that are both architectural support and visual adornment to the most holy site on the Acropolis—Corri journeys through the tangled rooms of family and learns how each woman bears the weight of their lives differently, how home moves with you wherever you go. And how sometimes, broken can be its own perfect.
JANYS
Logo by Rian Hughes
If there’s one thing Janys sees, it’s the future. Hers, and yours, in all their quantum probabilities. But Janys knows nothing of her past. Just that presently: the guy in front of her loves her despite her keeping him at arm’s length; the girl next to her is yum; and that there’s an interstellar wormhole with a hungry mouth out there trying to get her. Because so far Janys is an anomaly: the one version of self who—up until now—never seems to die. And something out there is bent on fixing this.
Judging by the sky, Janys calculates that she has one day left before the wormhole arrives in her quaint neighborhood of friends and quirky shop owners like the coin collector, a hoodie-loving guy who arrived in town shortly after Janys. If Janys does what she does best, she’ll spend the next twenty-four hours breaking hearts and planning her exit to save the one precious thing she seems to infinitely possess: a future. Unless it’s the past Janys has been running away from, and the only way to move forward now is to ride the wormhole and embrace all the woman that she is.
ANTHOLOGIES
The Speculative Detective Agency
Prose anthology publishing with Diversion Books in October 2026. My story is “The Silver Woman”. Preorder here.
“The Speculative Detective Agency (SDA) takes the cases that other detective agencies don’t dare take, cases that deal with the strange and the supernatural, fantasies that come to life and science fictions that walk the streets at midnight. We trust the mystery. We take the hand of the monster.”
A Dear John note leads a jolted boyfriend and ex-lover on the trail of stargazers, a holy icon and remote viewers—a trail that leads to a silver woman—with the aid of a speculative detective agency.
Detective Georgio (think Dr. Strange meets Wallander) employs all the traditional sleuthing protocols (including meeting strangers in Greek diners) but is also equipped with his own Faraday cage; the world of shadow government corps, the feds, and interdimensional beings means electromagnetic fields must be managed. His case profiles include archeological hunts of artefacts leaking curses from their graves, rivaling any Indiana Jones. Possessions from wronged spirits and disappointed orishas. Missing persons, however, is his bread and butter; the emotional attachment to an object refining the art of remote reviewing. His most notable case under the crystal badge of the Speculative Detective Agency is “The Silver Woman.” His submitted case report covers a slew of topics some might call speculative: specifically, the non-locality of consciousness and extraterrestrial life. It also sheds light on human life: the frailty of the human heart; male and female sexuality and the intersection of religion in what we call sin and redemption, the Madonna/Whore schism complex; the overlooked period of a woman’s life often called perimenopause and its female mental health consequences. In the end though, it’s just a detective story. An Anne Zouroudi meets Aya de León.
NOT YOUR PAPI’S UTOPIA: Latinx Visions of Radical Hope: “The Event Don Juan of Mycelia”
NOT YOUR PAPI’S UTOPIA: LATINX VISIONS OF RADICAL HOPE, an anthology edited by Matthew David Goodwin, Alex Hernandez, and Sara Rivera, art by Luis Valderas, Cover design by Cloud Cardona . Mouthfeel Press, Dec 2024. “The Event Don Juan of Mycelia”. Order
Anthology: Prose and Poetry
ISBN 978-1-957840-35-2
“Not Your Papi’s Utopia: Latinx Visions of Radical Hope is the final installment of the Latinx Archive speculative fiction trilogy. The first two anthologies, Latinx Rising and Speculative Fiction for Dreamers, were designed to demonstrate the history and vibrancy of the Latinx speculative. This third anthology summons the innovative utopian visions and radical hope needed to directly face the environmental and social problems of our current moment. “
Featured authors:
Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos; Lysz Flo; Daniel Figueroa-Arias; Ruth Joffre; Lesley Téllez; Florencia Manóvil; Rolando André López; Carlos Julio Paredes Minango; Richie Narvaez; Rodrigo Culagovski; Cesar L. De Leon; Sarah Dalton; Roxane Llanque; Kristian Macaron; Illimani Ferreira; Joy Castro; Yoss ; Eugene Speakes; Wenmimareba Klobah Collins; Amanda Torres
Osmani R. Alcaraz-Ochoa; EG Condé; Daniel Jose Ruiz; Gabriela Santiago; Olga García Echeverría
From Cocinas to Lucha Libre Ringsides: “It Ain’t This But That”
“It Ain’t This But That”
Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos & Aaron Guzman
Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology: “Jean”
“Jean” is Winner of the 2022 Chautauqua Janus Prize. The Anthology was a 2022 Ignyte Finalist for Best Anthology/Collection. A LOCUS Award Finalist 2022. A 2022 Utopian Anthology Finalist. A World Fantasy Award 2022 Nominee.
“…a bold and masterful rearranging of genres, part speculative fiction, part family memoir, that uses comic book pop culture to tell a deeply moving story of intergenerational trauma in the United States.” – Sony Ton-Aime, the Michael I. Rudell Director of Literary Arts at Chautauqua Institution
“…These sentences are magical, loaded with history and memory and color and space-time and sound…” -Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Janus Prize guest judge
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The above 2022 Chautauqua Janus Prize lecture by author Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos “Jean, Janus & Comic Book Realism”, delivered at the Chautauqua Institution Athenaeum Hotel on August 10th 2022, is also available in both handmade chapbook and ebook form. Chock-full of craft, comic book realism, family history, historical notes for Puerto Rico and Nuyorico, and astrophysics from a fangirl–the lecture is an exploration of literary craft and labels that exist within, and in defiance of, the eye of an observer. While weaving in and out of what is fiction and what is family memoir, the lecture also demonstrates pop culture as a new modern myth in language and experience, the vehicle of science fiction in mediums of comics and prose, and different faucets of marginalization, including in publishing, with a particular focus on the Latino/a/x/e and Puerto Rican/Nuyorican experience. This chapbook is great for classroom reads of the short story “Jean”, those with an interest in Latino a/x/e literature, and fans of small press and chapbooks. Read more and purchase.
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“Outstanding,” “masterful,” “a knockout”…
“…Themes of family, migration, and community resonate throughout these 38 masterful stories, as in “Jean” by Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos, which uses wormholes as a metaphor to consider intergenerational trauma…”
–Starred Review in Publishers Weekly
“Teen and adult readers alike will appreciate this greatly entertaining compilation, especially if they’re fans of Octavia Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin, N. K. Jemisin, and Ray Bradbury.” – Verónica N. Rodríguez, BOOKLIST.
“Packed with 38 YA pieces by Latinx authors, this anthology is a must for short story readers…”. – Margaret Kingsbury of BuzzFeed News, “35 New And Upcoming Sci-Fi Thrillers You Won’t Want To Put Down”
Included in “The 20 Best Books by Latinx Authors You’ll Want to Read Right Now” Priscilla Bloom, Reader’s Digest.
“…an exciting and mind-expanding collection of short stories by contemporary Latinx authors.” -Erika Harlitz Kern, Foreword Reviews.
Locus Magazine Recommended 2021 Reading List
Get a sneak peak! Handpicked and read by LeVar Burton is Lisa M. Bradley’s short story “Tía Abuela’s Face, Ten Ways”.
Read more reviews or groove to our video with review clips!
From the Kickstarter, Oct 20th 2020: “Speculative Fiction for Dreamers, edited by Alex Hernandez, Matthew David Goodwin, and Sarah Rafael Garcia, will be the first collection of YA Latinx speculative fiction. The book will be published by the non-profit Ohio State University Press, and will be coming out in August 2021. Latinx Speculative Fiction may not have had much of an audience in the past, but it certainly does now. There are many Latinx authors who are writing science fiction, fantasy, and other speculative genres, and many more Latinx fans. Our previous success with Latinx Rising: An Anthology of Latinx Science Fiction and Fantasy demonstrated the hunger of this growing audience for themes and characters that mirror the Latinx community. We are particularly excited about Speculative Fiction for Dreamers because it is the book that we wish had existed when we were younger and certainly want to exist for our children as they enter adolescence and begin to navigate their identity in the ever-shifting cultural landscape of the U.S. The anthology presents in five parts: 26 short stories, 7 poems, 2 short plays, and 3 graphic short stories. The Preface is written by the fantastic Latinx scholar Frederick Luis Aldama and the Introduction is written by the three co-editors Alex Hernandez, Matthew David Goodwin, and Sarah Rafael Garcia.” Featured in two panels at AWP 2021 where Stephanie read from her story with fellow contributors on the panel 3/3/2021 “W118. Soñando Juntos: Latinx Speculative Futures.” On Bookshop’s list of “Brilliant Books Brought to Life on Kickstarter”.
A little about my story from its editors: “Jean” by Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos finely interweaves the Nuyorican experience with the mythology of the X-Men, exploring trauma from the distant perspective of Nova, a Rigellian Recorder. This story is a love-song to comics and their life-transforming potential!” CW for “Jean“: Cursing, suicide, drug use, racism, loss.
Here is a list of some of the bookstores and public libraries around the world where you can order this book. Remember, you can always give your local indie/library a ring to carry it!
Cover art is by the Ohio State Press team and work from Victor Tongdee.
COVID CHRONICLES: “Small Acts” and “Seasons of the City”
A Washington Post Best Graphic Novel of 2021 and a New York Public Library must-read comic published in 2021! I have two stories in the debut of Graphic Mundi Imprint with Penn State University Press, with a starred Kirkus review. One of Comic Beat’s “…Most Anticipated Graphic Novels for Winter 2021.” School Library Journal (SLJ) recommends it for grades 8 and up. One of my stories got highlighted in Comics Grinder.
From the book: “In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic brought the world to its knees. When we weren’t sheltering in place, we were advised to wear masks, wash our hands, and practice social distancing. We watched in horror as medical personnel worked around the clock to care for the sick and dying. Businesses were shuttered, travel stopped, workers were furloughed, and markets dropped. And people continued to die. Amid all this uncertainty, writers and artists from around the world continued to create comics, commenting directly on how individuals, societies, governments, and markets reacted to the worldwide crisis. COVID Chronicles: A Comics Anthology collects more than forty such short comics from a diverse set of creators, including indie powerhouses, mainstream artists, Ignatz- and Eisner-Award winners, and mainstream media cartoonists. In narrative styles ranging from realistic to fantastic, they tell stories about adjusting to working from home, homeschooling their kids, missing birthdays and weddings, and being afraid just to leave the house. They probe the failures of government leaders and the social safety net. And they dig into the racial bias and systemic inequities that this pandemic helped bring to light. We see what it’s like to get the virus and to live to tell about it, or to stand by helplessly as a loved one passes.” Buy your copy.
Insider Art: “Little Island”
From Press Release in The Hollywood Reporter: “Chock-full of crafts, comics & cats, INSIDER ART is a digital anthology designed to entertain readers of all ages who are stuck indoors or just in search of new creative outlets. Set within the walls of eight different rooms in one peculiar house, eight editors were tasked to curate and edit comics, prose, games and how-to crafts. From recipes for comfort food and quarantine bread, to attic treasures and a brief history of Garage Rock, INSIDER ART is guaranteed to conquer the tedium of the great indoors.“ Grab your beach gear and look for my graphic prose story in the bathroom of the house. Art by Ashley Ribblett. Available on Gumroad, pay-what-you-can, suggested donation $10. Proceeds go to the benefit fund. Softcovers had a limited print!
Heroes Need Masks: “Small Acts”
Happy to have a story in the benefit comic anthology Heroes Need Masks that raised $2,000 donated to GetUsPPE.org to buy PPE for healthcare workers. The anthology also thanked a few healthcare worker backers with their portrait. Illustrator Seth Martel and I have a comic in this anthology: “Small Acts“ where a devoted father shows us how everyday acts of kindness, and a healthy dose of art, can make us all into heroes. Near and dear to my heart with healthcare worker husband. A later version of “Small Acts” is in the print book COVID Chronicles: A Comics Anthology.
Mermaids Monthly: ANDROMEDA
Book Riot: DIGITAL ESCAPES FOR READERS & WRITERS: 20 MUST-READ ONLINE LITERARY JOURNALS Lyndsie Manusos Sep 23, 2021 (includes Mermaids Monthly).
Elsewhere, Volume 2: “A Real Selfie”
If Scooby-Doo and the Puertopian gang vacationed on Vieques. Full of pirate curses, ghosts and cryptocurrency. Funded on Kickstarter! Available as paperback.
Illustrator Rafael Romeo Magat and I take you to “51 Solstice“, in the debut issue of Women in Comics Magazine: Dear Summer, 30-plus pages of poetry, microfiction and comics. In “51 Solstice” NYC summers are reflected in life on a space station in the Pegasus constellation, with some planet hopping, and love. Click to purchase from WinC website (pdf), GlobalComix for a generous peak inside and a purchase, or Amazon Kindle.
You can also read my prose short “Gumercinda’s Flower” in WinC’s March Equinox 2022 Issue: Blooming.
