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"But the worst kind of monster was the burrowing kind. / The sort that crawled into you and made a home there. / The sort you couldn't name, the sort you couldn't see. / The monster that ate you alive from the inside out.' (Emily Carroll, 'Through the Woods')

I've been reading comic books (sorry, graphic novels) (so sorry, sequential art) since I found my dad's copies of Detective Comics in 1st grade. As any female fan can attest, it is often difficult to be both a woman and a fan of comics. Editorial neglect, denied narrative glory, and abject gendered violence everywhere. But.

Horror comics, with or without capes, hold a special place in my heart. From the majority-female team of the New Mutants battling their way through hell (dying and coming back and dying again), to the utterly haunting girl monsters of Junji Ito's classics 'Uzumaki' and 'Tomie,' there are plenty of spooky gals to root for and recoil from.

Even better, comics are a medium which has drawn out and celebrated queer creators for decades. Who knows haunting better than lesbians? Who could write a more gruesome body horror than a trans teenaged girl? Queer horror comics are punk as fuck, and I hope to share some good ones here.

Recent posts are in the sidebar to the right, but here are my comics reviews which are not exactly pure reviews, rather a mix of review, reactions, and ramblings.

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web comics, essays, manga, etc.