Welcome to my personal home page. You'll find samples of work I've
done in the areas of:
Sequential
Tart is a Web Zine about the comics industry, published by
an eclectic band of women. The publication is dedicated to providing
exclusive interviews, in-depth articles and news, while working
towards raising the awareness of women's influence in the comics
industry and other realms.
for February 2006
Feature
Brokeback
Mountain and Tristan & Isolde — From Arcadia to Here,
and All the Gaps Between
The greatest leap is not from thinking about an action and doing
it, but the leap to thinking of it from not having had the thought
at all. The gaps between acknowledgement and action are crucial
elements in two seemingly disparate recent movies, Brokeback
Mountain and Tristan & Isolde.
for December 2005
Editorial
Possible
Worlds
Special issue exploring how comics and other artforms can be
powerful vehicles for exploring possible worlds.
Features
The
Multiverse Is/Was Dead. Long Live the Multiverse!
Why many worlds are better than one.
Fictional
Election Fever
TV ties the fictional to the fictitious.
Roundtable
The
Best of Worlds, and the Worst
What is your ideal society? The worst possible society? Tarts
discuss some memorable prose examples.
for October 2005
Feature
This
Is the Story of Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki. So Read On.
Skim Takota is a high school goth who is desperate to create
a physical and narrative space for herself. Mariko Tamaki and
Jillian Tamaki tell her story.
Column
Rant
of the Month — Feeding Kate Moss to the Lions: A Slender
Sacrifice
A supermodel's career goes up in flames while the fashion industry
fiddles by a river called Denial.
Reviews
All
Reviews
Features
Haunted
by Phantom Colonialism — The Phantom: The Ghost Killer
(September 2005)
Starting as a comic strip in 1936, The Phantom diversified into
a variety of comics series and other mediums over the years. But
with the latest comics from Moonstone Books, Tart Suzette Chan
asks a question of the Phanton legend as a whole: has it evolved
with the times?
Joanne
Woytysiak: Cultivating Comics (April 2005)
Gothbunnies is a flourishing new web comic about adventures in
arcane gardening. Joanne Wojtysiak is the creator who nurtured
it.
Chuck
McKinney: He Loves the Nightlife (March 2005)
A new web comic set in a gay bar explores nightlife in all its
infinite variety. Creator/writer Chuck McKinney explains.
Crossing
Borders: Jessica Abel (February 2005)
La Perdida is the fictional story of
a young American in Mexico who becomes entangled in relationships,
politics, and intrigue. Jessica Abel talks about the long and
rewarding artistic journey she undertook to tell the tale.
PowerPopCultureGirl:
Emily Pohl-Weary (November 2004)
Rejecting mass market entertainment, Emily Pohl-Weary made a name
for herself as a small press activist and co-author with her grandmother,
of the Hugo Award-winning biography, Better
to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril. Back in pop culture's
thrall, Pohl-Weary now celebrates new possibilities for the superheroine
trope with her anthology, Girls Who Bite Back:
Witches, Mutants, Slayers and Freaks.
Reading
Catwoman: One Icon's Leap from Cipher to Character (October
2004)
For such an iconic figure, Catwoman seemed to be little more than
a cipher until recently. I follow her journey from villian to
vigilante.
The
World According to Jane (September 2004)
Paige Braddock, creator of the comic Jane's World, discusses the
relationship between form and content.
Our
Ripley, Our Selves (December 2003)
I recently revisited the Alien series of films. My conclusion?
Aliens are scary. Creepy robots are scary. Work camps are scary.
Ron Perlman is scary. But so are Other things.
Letter
re: Jeepers Creepers 2 (December 2003)
A reader comment (scroll down to the last letter on the page)
about Jeepers Creepers 2 begged a few questions which I considered
at length:
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1. |
Is there only one possible interpretation
(or reading) of Jeepers Creepers 2? |
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2. |
Does biographical interpretation negate all other readings? |
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3. |
Is the threat or depiction of sexual violence toward
adolescent males unique to work by child molesters? |
Uncanny
Movies: Shades of Scary! (October 2003)
Dirty Pretty Things and Jeepers Creepers 2 are two very different
movies. You might call one a political film, the other a slasher
flick. But if Freud were a movie critic, he might say they both
expressed a particular shade of frightening: The Uncanny.
Hitting
the mylar ceiling (August 2003)
People take film seriously. Why not comics?
Roundtables
Back-to-School
Time (September 2005)
Part the Sequential Tart mission is to highlight to our readers
comics that have impressed us and that we believe are deserving
of a wider audience. In honor of back-to-school time, we looked
at educational comics. My recommendation was Louis
Riel by Chester Brown.
Tart
to Heart: Which comic book character is most like you? (September
2005)
What I have in common with Angry Little Girls.
Tart
Tastes: Grant Morrison (August 2005)
With Tart Tastes, Sequential Tart focuses on great creators and
topics within comics. My choice for signature Grant Morrison work:
Sebastian O.
