New York Comic Con 2026 is a wrap! My EVENT HORIZON: STORIES OF NO TURNING BACK had an eventful presentation in a conversation around Latines in Comics at the panel Super! Latines Making Comics! I talked around the question: What is Latinxfuturism, and how do you represent it in your collection, Event Horizon? I walked…
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Latina Themes in Event Horizon
Talking through the Latino a/x/e representation in the book Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back (Janus Point Press, 2024). From the writer and co-publisher (author Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos), the book designer, the reviewers, the academics who wrote the introductions, the artists who bring these stories to visual life and the themes of the stories…
DR163: Graphic Novella
A long-lost graffiti artist and trauma surgeon form an unlikely friendship when the magic of their hands turns them into midnight vigilantes. It’s the vertical scroll down graphic novella DR163. Aaron Guzman‘s art is a magical scroll down a mind-bending story written by Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos of a doctor in need of healing and the…
The Ultimate Selfie
What happens when three jockin guys and one girl go on the quest for the ultimate selfie while on vacation? If Scooby-Doo and the Puertopian gang vacationed on Vieques, Puerto Rico. Full of pirate curses, ghosts and cryptocurrency. This fun five-page full color comic created by artist Seth Christian Martel and writer Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos…
Preorders Available
Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back had a stellar Kickstarter launch. If you missed it, now’s the time to preorder your copies of a book that bends genre, not to mention spacetime. You’ll find all three cover variants of the book (Karen S. Darboe, Armando Ramirez, BlusterOne, minus the Kickstarter exclusive digital variants), and…
Cover Reveal… Watch out for Black Holes
My upcoming book cover is going to be revealed this week via a group that invited me to speak soon with their constituents. From the woman (and press) that warns you about wormholes, comes its cousin: WATCH OUT FOR BLACK HOLES. Literally watch out for black holes and tag me on social media @ TheNinaGalaxy…
Jean, Janus & Comic Book Realism: New Chapbook
The 2022 Chautauqua Janus Prize lecture “Jean, Janus & Comic Book Realism” is now available in chapbook and ebook form. The chapbook that takes you down a wormhole (or two) in handmade, saddle-stitched form. And ebook. And anthology t-shirt bundles. Oh my! Chock-full of craft, comic book realism, family history, historical notes for Puerto Rico…
Coming 2024: “It Ain’t This But That”
Nova Odyssey returns in 2024 in comics format… I and cousin Aaron Guzman have a graphic prose story in the upcoming anthology : From Cocinas To Lucha Libre Ringsides: Latinographix Stories of Sports’ Food & Madness publishing in 2024 with Ohio State University Press. Alongside some amazing comics people, Aaron and I have the story…
Crowdfunding Panel KCU
Listen to a recording of the panel I was on in June 2023 with some Kids Comics Unite community members talking about the variety of our crowdfunding experiences and tips for your literary publications.
Loisaida Festival 2023
Stephanie will be vending at the 2023 Loisaida Festival Sunday May 28th 2023, 12pm-5pm, hawking her literary goods. This is a great chance to see the plethora of the mediums I work in, that have deep roots in Puerto Rican-Nuyorican culture. Zines that disrupt Latinx brand loyalty, zines that tease, zines that mourn. Anthologies like…
