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A Gorgeous Comic Tells Norse History With a Lesbian Bent

The “Heathen” series follows queer warriors and brave demigods. Read more »

Oh Joy Sex Toy: The Rumble Vibrator

Artist Erika Moen tests out a futuristic-looking new vibrator—with mixed results. Read more »

Artist Lisa Hanawalt Talks Hot Dogs, Bojack Horseman, and Why It Helps to Give Anxiety a Name

Welcome to the land of talking dogs and poop jokes. Oh and also sincere, vulnerable feelings. Read more »

Reading "The X-Men" As a Queer Text

They're outcasts who choose their own family, explains comics scholar Ramzi Fawza.  Read more »

Innovative Comic "Little Teeth" Explores Queer Pain and Romance

Queer animals live, love, and hurt one another in this thought-provoking comic.   Read more »

What Would Have Made "X-Men: Apocalypse" Better? More Screen Time for Female Characters

Storm, Mystique, and Psylocke get the short shrift in the new film. What a waste!  Read more »

MariNaomi Looks In Between Cultures in Illustrated Memoir "Turning Japanese"

“It was definitely pretty naive to think that I would find some kind of belonging in a foreign country.” Read more »

Oh Joy Sex Toy: Period Sex

Oh Joy Sex Toy is a weekly NSFW comics series that graphically explores sex and sexuality. This week: The ins and outs of sex on your period!  Read more »

Popaganda: Insider/Outsider

This one’s for the punks, poets, radicals, and outliers. We hear four stories about what life is like as an outsider, from tattoo artists confronting invisible disabilities to poet Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib on being a person of color in the punk scene. Plus, we hear from... Read more »

Female Bonding: The Strange History of Wonder Woman

In a world that rarely embraces even real-life feminist heroes, is there any room for Wonder Woman? Read more »

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In a Bizarre 1976 Comic Book, Spider-Man Fought the Villain of Misleading Sex Education

Last week, I came across a very strange comic book: in 1976, Planned Parenthood teamed up with Marvel to publish a one-off comic in which... Read more »

She-Hulk, Attorney at Law: She's Mean, She's Green, and She Believes in Due Process

Avenger. Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Member of the Fantastic Four. Read more »