Here’s my review of Jillian and Mariko Tamaki‘s THIS ONE SUMMER (my favorite graphic novel of 2015!)—for the LA Review of Books.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/review/tween-awakening
Talk at NEIU with Phoebe Gloeckner, Nicole Georges
This is kinda late for me to be posting this but…TONIGHT I’m on a panel with Phoebe Gloeckner and Nicole Georges at Northeastern Illinois University, moderated by real-deal, I’m-not-making-this-up, Professional Comics Scholar, Professor Hillary Chute! This should be a great big wide-open vat of a talk. Thrills ‘n spills with nibbage to spare! Open, as it should be, to the comics-concerned public.
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 6-8 p.m.
NEIU Auditorium
3701 W Bryn Mawr Ave
Chicago, IL 60646
Free, No Tickets Required
Complimentary parking in Lot F or Levels 4 & 5 of the parking garage
http://neiu.edu/university-life/arts-northeastern/visiting-writers-series/graphic-novelists-panel
Masculine, Pregnant and Nerdy
This is a piece by Snow Kelleher about finding unexpected masculinity in the preggered state. Illustration by yours truly. Yes, the guy in the loincloth has a tail.
PB interview on Top Ten Podcast List
Hillary Frank‘s interview with me about being a pregnant butch made it on The People Podcast’s Top Ten Podcasts from 2014. Probably ‘cuz I say “tits” in it.
The Longest Shortest Time
Last month, I met with Hillary Frank of WNYC’s The Longest Shortest Time and we talked of things pregnant and butch. http://longestshortesttime.com/2014/10/15/podcast-41-how-to-be-a-pregnant-butch/
The Longest Shortest Time is a WNYC podcast for all of you hollow-eyed ghouls who find yourselves up in the middle of the night (not by choice). I heard of it because, after my book came out with its Spiritual Midwifery-bashing chapter, a friend asked me if I’d heard Hillary Frank’s podcast about Ina May Gaskin. I hadn’t. I looked it up and was astonished. Hillary had the chutzpah and decency to actually call up Ina May Gaskin and challenge the legendary midwife-author about her promise of “ecstatic childbirth” in S.M., among other things. Of course, I had my own different bone to pick with Ina May, but I took the sneaky bomb-throwing, comic-drawing route instead. #whyimnotajournalist http://longestshortesttime.com/2014/04/16/podcast-28-the-missing-chapter-to-ina-mays-guide/
Consequential Podcast and Review
http://www.consequential.net/2014/pregnant-butch-a-k-summers/
Review by Roger Hart
http://www.consequential.net/2014/podcast-episode-18-tcaf/
Dave Convery, Roger Hart and Lucy Boyes of Consequential, “an almost-monthly newsletter full of interesting comics stuff,” shoot the breeze about Pregnant Butch AND about their microphone as a possible robot dildo.
KitschMix
http://kitschmix.com/blog/can-butches-even-get-pregnant-a-k-summers-answers-that/
Here’s PB featured in a LGBT culture site I didn’t know about, KitschMix. It’s out of East London.
Windy City Times covers U of Chicago Talk
University of Chicago CSGS Artist Salon hosts Kristen Schilt, Hillary Chute, Chase Joynt with A.K. Summers at May 1, 2014 Artist’s Talk, “Drawing Butchness with Comics.”
Windy City Times‘s Vern Hester came to my May 1 Artist’s Talk at the University of Chicago…but Vern left out his own brilliant after-the-talk suggestion that I send a copy of Pregnant Butch to Paul “Yer Havin’ My Babeh” Anka.
http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/Pregnant-Butch-author-presents-talk/47306.html
PB at Late Night Library
Oldest living rookie tells all…in 10 words or less.
Queerty: Male Nipples, Watermelon, Pregnant Butch
Happiness is… that Queerty review of PB runs along adjacent story of Which male celebrity has the best nipples? and Watermelon: It’s Nature’s Viagra.
