ALPHABET
Stacked Deck Press/Prism Comics, USA
Contribution: Soizick Jaffre
(6 pages, illustration dans l'anthologie et une carte à jouer la reine de pique dans le jeu de carte édité par NorthWest Press pour une levée de fond en faveur de Stacked Deck Press)
Celebrating a decade of Prism Comics Queer Press Grant
2017 Lambda Literary Award Finalist
2017 Ignatz Award nominee
2017
Reading Alphabet will plunge you into the welcoming rainbow of LGBTQAIU comics. This collection is thick and juicy, retrospective and introspective, futuristic, celebratory, exploratory, imaginative and thoughtful. And sexy and loving too! This hefty anthology was put out by Prism Comics, a nonprofit organization that promotes awareness of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender creators, stories, characters, and readers in the comics industry. One of the ways Prism does this is by sponsoring an annual Queer Press Grant, to assist in the publication and promotion of LGBT comics. Winners receive not only publishing assistance but also get help in promotion, tabling at cons, and panel appearances–much of which comics’ publishing necessitates.
This compilation features works from past winners, including Robert Kirby, Eric Orner, Hazel Newlevant, Justin Hall, Tana Ford, Ed Luce, Pam Harrison, and Jon Macy. Howard Cruse, Jennifer Camper, Roberta Gregory, Paige Braddock, Tyler Cohen and Dylan Edwards also contribute. Fifty-two artists in all contributed pieces for this volume, and, as Faith Cheltenham says in the introduction, “Many experiences and lived narratives share the heart of their homes with this book, and this anthology holds within it characters that are you and me, and every one of us in between.”