Marvel character Gwendolyn “Gwen” Poole aka Gwenpool has been confirmed aromantic and asexual!
Gwenpool will come to terms with her sexuality in next week’s issue of Love Unlimited: Gwenpool, her current series which is made by an acespec creative team.
Acespec creators Jeremy Whitley @jeremywhitley, Bailie Rosenlund @bailiesartblog, Kelly Fitzpatrick, Alanna Smith @alannawrites and Kaitlyn Lindtvedt discuss Gwenpool’s asexuality and aromanticism in this new interview for Marvel.
It’s a really great interview, highly recommend reading it!
“Acespec people aren’t often shown in media and when they are, it’s often shown as a trope of being a broken thing that needs fixing. The more diversity and stories we can tell, the better.” -Kelly Fitzpatrick
Love Unlimited: Gwenpool is available now from Marvel Unlimited. The concluding issue of this 6 part limited series will be out next week.
Check out this reading list for Gwenpool if you’d like to read more of her comics!
Gwenpool is the second Marvel character to be confirmed asexual this year, although she will be the first to have her asexuality shown on-page.
Morgan Red was confirmed asexual back in March and his asexuality will be addressed in New Mutants Lethal Legion #5, out in July.
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BREAKING NEWS FROM SDCC! Titan announces "The Cold Ever After"! An all-new queer fantasy series from writer Jeremy Whitley (
@jrome58) and superstar artist Megan Huang (
@MeganHuang5) ! Order now! US: https://amazon.com/dp/1787741907/ UK/Europe
@ForbiddenPlanet: https://forbiddenplanet.com/396653-the-cold-ever-after/
A long time ago, I was having writing block and I decided I was going to try an exercise of putting together two genres of things I really liked and wanted to write and see what I could make out of them.
One of the phrases I ended up with was "Arthurian Noir".
I liked that idea a lot. Arthurian romance and Noir mystery are such different genres, but I felt like there was a spot they were compatible and that was in the person of the disgraced knight. Arthurian knights are supposed to love their queen. It's part of the job description. But that love is supposed to stop at a particular point and if it goes past that, they've put their lives and knighthood in danger. It's the classic Lancelot story. But if it was a noir story, the idea that made sense was for this knight to have been disgraced, sent away, and then called back into the fray - surrounded by people they hated and a queen/lover who had abandoned them. That story, I thought, felt like it could have teeth.
And I thought it was even more compelling if that central relationship was a queer one between a female knight and her queen.
That's how "The Cold Ever After" was born. Sir Noelani Mahi'ai was pulled from her parents and her island to train to be the Holy Champion as a child. She was taken in by the church and trained to be the sword of the king, to do his will and to win any battle. She was shown no love and tenderness, only pain and strength. Until one day she was dispatched to save the woman who would be the queen from terrible danger.
She succeeded. But what no one counted on is the knight and her queen falling in love. She was always by the queen's side, often in her bed, and once the princess was born, the knight helped to raise the princess as if she were her own daughter.
But then things fell apart, she's never been clear how, and the knight was dismissed and sent back to her home. It's been ten years.
Now the queen has come looking for her help again. The princess has gone missing the night before her wedding to a rival king. Now the entire kingdom is in danger of being burned to the ground if the princess is not produced in the next seven days. But not everything in the kingdom is as it seems and if the knight isn't careful, she may lose the only things she has left.
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Four Years Collected vol 2
"The hope of my dreams — my true self — knowing she's out there keeps me going"
An emo comic about trauma and friendship! Betty Yaris has a clear vision of who she's going to be in four years — she's met her — and her eyes are on the prize. She's not sure, however, if that will be enough to get there. Her past is threatening to drag her down via a bizarre, malignant health issue.
If the pain and trauma can be planted deep inside her, can't love and acceptance as well?. This volume collects the second half of her story.
60 pages / Full Color / 7” x 10” softcover / perfect bound / ISBN 978-0-9906874-8-1 / 2021
BUY HERE!
Read the full comic
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I'm making a website!!
Hi everyone!! I'm sorry that I haven't posted a lot lately, but I have been busy. I am working on an art commission's website for myself to get my work out there and to make some money for my transition.
Thank you to everyone who has enjoyed my Watcher fanart and just my art as a whole. In the meantime, here's the messy storyboard of my Ricky Goldsworth and C.C. Tinsley Comic. Some of the storyboard has changed since this picture but this is the general idea. This is going to be a mini-comic, likely not a series because I am in the process of also making a Webtoon. So, I have been a busy beaver. Lol. Enjoy!!
Also, here's a sneak peek at my Webtoon/Webcomic as well if you're interested:
I will tell more about the comic if people become interested in it. ^^
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Meeting another trans person in the wild ft. @kaylasartwork !
Thank you for the collab, it was really nice working with such a talented artist! Please go check her work if you haven't already!
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Some folks would prefer that I keep politics OUT of my comic strip, but... uh... it's a comic about my life as a transgender woman, and it's KINDA hard to not be a smidge political when one party keeps pushing and passing laws that make it a crime for me to exist.
So, sorry if you feel this is unfair, but it feels pretty frickin' unfair to be labeled a literal criminal for existing.
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warmth.
a comic about not being alone.
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recent thoughts about what flavour of genderfluid I might be
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