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Comics Have Always Been Poetry: Joan Zahra Dark Interviews Rosemary Valero-O’Connell
I first met Rosemary Valero-O’Connell at the Small Press Expo (SPX) in 2019 shortly before her triple Ignatz Award sweep for the absolutely incredible graphic novel Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me (2019) she illustrated alongside Mariko Tamaki. The extremely warm welcome I received from just a first conversation as we talked about queerness in comics and how nice it was to be surrounded by so many peers has always stuck with me and very much made me a superfan from then on.
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Pokémon Scarlet & Violet: In Service to the Brand
Like a lot of self-described Pokémon fans, I’ve found myself consumed by the excitement and fervor that’s surrounded Pokémon Scarlet and Violet in the month since it’s release. I’ve easily put in over 60 hours at this point,… Read More
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White Supremacy Can Not be Separated from the United States
To call our current moment a time when state sanctioned inciting of violence is a regular occurrence would be an understatement. In the wake of a recent shooting in Buffalo, we’re now facing down a string of mass… Read More
Joan Zahra Dark
Hi! I'm Joan Zahra Dark, you might know me as one of the former worker-owners of Bluestockings Cooperative in NYC. I'm an organizer, public speaker and writer on various websites alongside this one! I love talking about queer comics, the importer of worker cooperatives, trans speculative fiction and why we all want to bang and/or be robots!