Bitches on Comics

Wendy N. Wagner joins us to discuss her novella The Secret Skin from Neon Hemlock, her novel The Deer Kings, and her recently announced upcoming novel The Creek Girl. Co-hosted by special guest host Maria Dong, this episode covers Wendy’s impressive editing and writing career, getting into all the twists and turns and how to learn from your mistakes. Wendy also talks about making a living as a creative, what they are looking for as an editor of Nightmare Magazine, what AI might mean for writers, and so much more. Learn more about Wendy N. Wagner:winniewoohoo.com Follow Wendy on Twitter: @wnwagner and Instagram @wendy.n.wagner Learn more about Nightmare Magazine at: nightmare-magazine.com Follow guest host Maria Dong on Twitter: @MariaDongWrites and Instagram: @maria_dong_writes Tune into Episode 145: Out of one genre and into another featuring Maria Dong 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. Show us some love by giving us a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, PodChaser, or wherever you get your podcasts. Support us by joining our Patreon Community. Keep in touch with us and see what we’re up to by visiting our website: BitchesOnComics.com And check out our new narrative horror podcast Decoded Horror Channel which includes Graveyard Orbit, Tales of the Sapphire Bay Hotel, and more! Bitches on Comics is a Queer Spec project. Check out our other projects! Learn more about Queer Spec at: QueerSpec.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jennifer Camper, recently featured in the "No Straight Lines" documentary via PBS, sits down to chat with us about the complexities of queer history, the importance of archiving, and the need for individual context in larger social conversations. Jennifer has been making comics for quite a while and it's a delight to hear her share her perspectives! Follow Jennifer Camper on her website, which features MANY of her comics. Pick up the book version of "No Straight Lines" from Fantagraphics and watch the documentary on PBS. 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. Show us some love by giving us a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, PodChaser, or wherever you get your podcasts. Support us by joining our Patreon Community. Keep in touch with us and see what we’re up to by visiting our website: BitchesOnComics.com And check out our new narrative horror podcast Decoded Horror Channel which includes Graveyard Orbit, Tales of the Sapphire Bay Hotel, and more! Bitches on Comics is a Queer Spec project. Check out our other projects! Learn more about Queer Spec at: QueerSpec.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Taki Soma has a sit-down chat with us about her graphic memoir "Sleeping While Standing." This deeply personal episode covers everything from the purpose of memoir, the lives of our parents that we know nothing about, the universality of grief, and the heartbreaking tragedy of losing a pet. That all sounds pretty heavy, but this is a pretty cathartic and, yes, funny episode with one of the best people doing it today in the world of comics. Follow Taki Soma on Twitter or Instagram Pick up "Sleeping While Standing" from Avery Hill Publishing or just about anywhere you get books! 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. Show us some love by giving us a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, PodChaser, or wherever you get your podcasts. Support us by joining our Patreon Community. Keep in touch with us and see what we’re up to by visiting our website: BitchesOnComics.com And check out our new narrative horror podcast Decoded Horror Channel which includes Graveyard Orbit, Tales of the Sapphire Bay Hotel, and more! Bitches on Comics is a Queer Spec project. Check out our other projects! Learn more about Queer Spec at: QueerSpec.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In our 150th episode—also our first 100% nonbinary episode *air horn* *air horn* –we talk to Nadia Shammas about their new graphic novel WHERE BLACK STARS RISE. Co-hosted by special guest host Craig Hale, this episode marks Nadia’s glorious return to the podcast where she reports back on the reception of Squire. We also get into militarism and empire, the importance of viewing your creative team as co-creators, engaging with eldritch horror, and flipping Lovecraftian horror on its head. Plus, representing therapy and mental illness! Writing in a visual medium! And more! Follow Nadia Shammas on Instagram at: @‌nadiashammas Tune into Episode 126: Reflecting worlds that reflect me featuring Nadia Shammas Follow guest host Craig Hale on Twitter: @‌catharticus and Instagram: @‌craignarok Tune into Episode 94: Black stories across decades featuring Craig 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. Show us some love by giving us a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, PodChaser, or wherever you get your podcasts. Support us by joining our Patreon Community. Keep in touch with us and see what we’re up to by visiting our website: BitchesOnComics.com And check out our new narrative horror podcast Decoded Horror Channel which includes Graveyard Orbit, Tales of the Sapphire Bay Hotel, and more! Bitches on Comics is a Queer Spec project. Check out our other projects! Learn more about Queer Spec at: QueerSpec.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cecil Castellucci joins us to talk about their vast and deep writing career, from the Nicki Fix podcast to Shade the Changing Girl to Soupy Leaves Home to Shifting Earth to Female Furies and beyond! We get into how she explores gender in her writing, telling stories in the formats they demand, and creating the kinds of characters that keep readers coming back to their work. Plus, research! Hope! Learn more about Nicki Fix: eepuniverse.com/title/nicki-fix/ Follow Cecil at: https://www.cecilcastellucci.com/ Twitter: @misscecil IG: @cecilseaskull 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. Show us some love by giving us a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, PodChaser, or wherever you get your podcasts. Support us by joining our Patreon Community. Keep in touch with us and see what we’re up to by visiting our website: BitchesOnComics.com And check out our new narrative horror podcast Decoded Horror Channel which includes Graveyard Orbit, Tales of the Sapphire Bay Hotel, and more! Bitches on Comics is a Queer Spec project. Check out our other projects! Learn more about Queer Spec at: QueerSpec.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amy Chu returns to talk about her new graphic novel Carmilla and her House of Slay issue. We get into lesbian vampires, the 90s, writing characters based on real people, and putting yourself into your work. Plus, writing craft! Friendship! The writers’ room! Learn more about Carmilla written by Amy Chu, art by Soo Lee, letters by Sal Cipriano. Learn more about House of Slay written by Amy Chu and art by Fabian Lelay on Tapas or WEBTOON. Follow Amy Chu at: Twitter Instagram TikTok Facebook Listen to Bitches on Comics Episode 37: Did you read the comic? featuring Amy Chu 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. Show us some love by giving us a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, PodChaser, or wherever you get your podcasts. Support us by joining our Patreon Community. Keep in touch with us and see what we’re up to by visiting our website: BitchesOnComics.com And check out our new narrative horror podcast Decoded Horror Channel which includes Graveyard Orbit, Tales of the Sapphire Bay Hotel, and more! Bitches on Comics is a Queer Spec project. Check out our other projects! Learn more about Queer Spec at: QueerSpec.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are joined by the lovely Jess Desvarieux and Moonie Desvarieux for a quick check in about their awesome webseries MOONIE and it's nomination for a queertie (!!!) before they come on the podcast for a full interview in June for Pride Month. Make sure to head over to the queerties website and vote for Moonie: https://www.queerty.com/queerties Let's help a Black, queer web series thrive! The full length interview rules, so make sure to come back in June! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We talk to the inimitable MariNaomi about their new graphic memoir I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME. In this episode co-hosted by special guest host Maria Dong, we get into friendship breakups, the nature of memory, hurting, healing, and much more! Plus, we discuss their great book Dirty Produce, their mural in Los Angeles county, and their awesome diary comics. Learn more about MariNaomi and I Thought You Loved Me: marinaomi.com or on patreon. Also catch MariNaomi on BoC Episode 41: These people matter! Follow special guest host Maria Dong at: @MariaDongWrites on most social media (link goes to Twitter) Catch Maria Dong on BoC Episode 145: Out of one genre and into another. 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. Show us some love by giving us a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, PodChaser, or wherever you get your podcasts. Support us by joining our Patreon Community. Keep in touch with us and see what we’re up to by visiting our website: BitchesOnComics.com And check out our new narrative horror podcast Decoded Horror Channel which includes Graveyard Orbit, Tales of the Sapphire Bay Hotel, and more! Bitches on Comics is a Queer Spec project. Check out our other projects! Learn more about Queer Spec at: QueerSpec.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we would like to introduce you to Vulgar History, another podcast distributed by Realm Lola Montez is such a groundbreakingly dirtbaggy grifter and icon, we had to invite friend of the pod Allison Epstein (author of A Tip for the Hangman) to share this wildly bananas saga. The saga is truly internationale as well, as part one travels along with Lola from Ireland to India, England, Scotland, Spain, France, and finally Bavaria. And it's just part one of two!! Enjoy!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host of the pod Sara Century joins us as a guest in this special episode! We talk about Sara’s new short story collection A Small Light and Other Stories from Weirdpunk Books, getting into Sara’s unique flavor of horror, what makes life so horrifying, the monsters we love and hate, and so much more! We also discuss our new narrative fiction podcast Decoded Horror Channel and the upcoming anthology Tales of the Sapphire Bay Hotel! Plus, Feelings! Queer! Sad! Danny Lore guest hosts! Learn more about A Small Light and Other Stories at: Weirdpunk Books Tune into the audio adaptation of Sara’s story “The Hollow Bones” on Decoded Horror Channel, available wherever you get your podcasts. Follow Sara Century: @saracentury Follow our guest host Danny Lore at: @weredawgz (link goes to Twitter) 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. Show us some love by giving us a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, PodChaser, or wherever you get your podcasts. Support us by joining our Patreon Community. Keep in touch with us and see what we’re up to by visiting our website: BitchesOnComics.com And check out our new narrative horror podcast Decoded Horror Channel which includes Graveyard Orbit, Tales of the Sapphire Bay Hotel, and more! Bitches on Comics is a Queer Spec project. Check out our other projects! Learn more about Queer Spec at: QueerSpec.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices