#comic-con@home

Our Comic-Con@Home panel is LIVE! Check it out here! 

We each claimed our respective rooms, and were allowed to do whatever we wanted with it—mine is, unsurprisingly, a testament to whatever was on my mind during quarantine back in March: Ghost, my trip to Mexico, Half-Life: Alyx, my mom. Some other hidden stuff.

COMIC-CON@HOME’S QUEER HORROR PANEL - 2021 Horror films, TV shows, books, and comics have always attempted to bring us to the threshold of our fears and force us to come face to face with the “otherness” that exists outside of the mainstream. For those in the LGBTQ+ community, this sense of otherness is not only terrifying and titillating, it’s quite often also relatable. From James Whales’ Frankenstein to the oft-cited “gayest movie of all time,” A Nightmare on Elm Street 2, we’re posing the question: Does a queer horror genre exist, and if so what makes it different from mainstream horror? And how does the current social movement for LGBTQ+ and BIPOC diversity inform the creation of the horror comics, films, and television shows we see today? Join Prism Comics, moderator/filmmaker Michael Varrati (The Boulet Brothers Dragula, Unusual Attachment) and panelists Drusilla Adeline (Dead for Filth, Sister Hyde Design), Darcie Little Badger (Elatsoe, Strangelands), Terry Blas (Reptil, Dead Weight), Trinidad Escobar (Crushed, Bruhas), Joamette Gil (Power and Magic: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology), and Steenz (Archival Quality, Heart of the City) as they explore the horror genre from a queer perspective.

Oh, hey, it's the end of July, which means I would normally be in San Diego right now, hanging out at SDCC. Alas, once again we're stuck with Comic-Con at Home. At least this year they've had time to plan and actually set things up better. For instance, this year the art show is NOT on Tumblr, but instead on a separate platform where you can see everybody's offerings and the links to their websites in alphabetical order, instead of trying to scroll through all of the reblogs... In fact, might I suggest that you click the link and scroll down to Blue Box Imaginarium and buy ALL THE THINGS enjoy my offerings. Or, y'know, see what other cool art people have to offer.

Adapting Philip Pullman’s award-winning trilogy of the same name, which is considered a modern masterpiece of imaginative fiction, HBO/BBC’s His Dark Materials concluded its debut season in December. Join executive producers Jane Tranter and Jack Thorne, as well as cast members Dafne Keen (Lyra), Ruth Wilson (Mrs. Coulter), Ariyon Bakare (Lord Boreal), Amir Wilson (Will Parry), Andrew Scott (John Parry), and Lin-Manuel Miranda (Lee Scoresby) in a virtual panel discussion about the hit drama series which will be moderated by award-winning journalist Stacey Wilson Hunt.