Jude Doyle

Kicking off Gay Pride month with some Gay Discomfort: An essay on internalized transphobia, "Heated Rivalry," and Glenn Greenwald. It's anyone's guess which is worse.

There's a new Tori Amos album out, and it is VERY IMPORTANT that you listen to me rather than Pitchfork.

It's Dead Teenagers day! Issue #3 and all its glorious variants can be picked up at your local comic shop, or at the usual digital retailers. Make sure to put in a pre-order for Issue #4 before FOC on 5/25.

Something that started small and got big: On getting made fun of, giving up on my childhood love for MST3K, and the best slasher movie of all time, "Jason X."

DC Pride 2025 is up for an Eisner! I wrote a story and a half, so now I am technically Eisner-nominated (the BEST kind of Eisner-nominated) or at least nominee-adjacent. Congratulations to Andrea Shea, Jillian Grant, and all the other geniuses involved, obviously.

On "The Skin I Live In," a wildly problematic movie that I still managed to see myself in, very much against the wishes of Pedro Almodovar.

Some Personal Essay on burnout and being a Representative Trans Person.

Murder! Is it good? Is it bad? We simply don't have answers to those questions, but in this case, with this ONE murder, I think there's a net benefit. Please just hear me out.

I got to write a CLAYFACE limited series for DC, and I am now the world's biggest, weirdest Clayface fan. Here's a bit about the character's history, why I love him, and which comics I read to get him right.

Some personal news: I got to write a comic miniseries for Clayface, with astonishing, gorgeous, and occasionally really disgusting art by Fran Galan. I love Basil so much and I love this project. More at the link.

At the newsletter: I'm covering slashers for DEAD TEENAGERS week, starting with the slasher that scares me most -- which, yes, does have a lot of giant foam animal heads and saxophone solos, all things considered.

DEAD TEENAGERS #2 is out as of today, April 15! So is the re-issued #1, which sold out its first print run (a first for me, and one which I plan to talk about a normal amount of the time). You can pick it up at your comic shop or the usual digital retailers, and learn who the mysterious new lady on the cover is, just in time to pre-order Issue #3 by April 27.

All it takes to make a queer feminist masterpiece is a dream and a giant vampire puppet.

A quick one about "One Battle After Another," the Oscars, and watching cycles repeat.

Also, even though I forgot to post it, you should still read this installment on mannequins. What is that about, really?

By the way: Today is also the pub day for my short story "Hatewatch," with Malachi Ward, in EC Comics' Catacomb of Torment #9. It feels so weird and great to be part of the EC tradition, and this story is a mean one, so watch out for it.

Still running slasher numbers in advance of DEAD TEENAGERS. This week: Authority-hating teens encounter their natural enemy, the robot.