The Geeks OUT Blog
Enjoy our extensive catalogue of geeky media coverage with an eye towards the LGBTQ+ community. Our editors strive to provide a diverse range of topics, genres, figures, and perspectives just for you.
LGBTQ+ Creator Spotlight: Karen S. Darboe, Artist Supreme
Happy New Year to all the queer comic book connoisseurs out there! For the first installment of the Queer Creator spotlight of 2023, I had the honor of speaking with Afro-Italian artist Karen S. Darboe who's launching her first Marvel book this week, Bloodline:...
Interview with Author and Photographic Artist B.A. Van Sise
B.A. Van Sise is an internationally-known photographer and the author of the visual poetry anthology Children of Grass. His visual work has previously appeared in the New York Times, Village Voice, Washington Post and Buzzfeed, as well as major museum exhibitions...
Interview with Author Chana Stiefel
Chana Stiefel is the award-winning author of more than 30 punny and poignant books for children. She loves to visit schools and libraries to share her passion for reading and writing with children. She earned a Master’s degree in Science, Health, and Environmental...
“No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics” to Premiere on PBS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_qO8wZwKtA 'To be black and queer and learn about Rupert Kinnard's work — only two years ago! It was very profound to me, yet also sad... How many other Rupert's are there that I didn't know about? ....' was the reaction of cartoonist,...
Interview with Author Taleen Voskuni
Taleen Voskuni is an Armenian-American writer who grew up in the Bay Area diaspora surrounded by a rich Armenian community and her ebullient, loving family. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in English and currently lives in San Francisco, working in tech....
Interview with Author David Slayton
David R. Slayton (He/Him) grew up outside of Guthrie, Oklahoma, where finding fantasy novels was pretty challenging and finding fantasy novels with diverse characters was downright impossible. David’s debut, White Trash Warlock, was published in 2020 by Blackstone...
Interview with Cartoonist Chan Chau
Chan Chau is the creator of the New York Times bestselling graphic novel adaptations of The Baby-Sitters Club: Kristy and the Snobs and The Baby-Sitters Club: Jessi's Secret Language by Ann M. Martin. They graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design....
Interview with Author Davinia Evans
Davinia Evans was born in the tropics and raised on British comedy. With a lifelong fantasy-reading habit and an honours thesis in political strategy, it was perhaps inevitable that she turn to a life of crafting stories full of sneaky ratbags tangling with magic. She...
Interview with the Creative Team Behind Edmund White’s A Boy’s Own Story Graphic Novel Adaptation
ABOUT EDMUND WHITE’S A BOY’S OWN STORY: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL A landmark American novel, hailed by the New York Times as J.D. Salinger crossed with Oscar Wilde, is masterfully reimagined as a timeless graphic novel. A Boy’s Own Story is a now-classic coming-of-age story,...
Interview with Author Mike Albo
Mike Albo (he/him/his) is the author of the novels Hornito and The Underminer: The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life (co-written with Virginia Heffernan), as well as the novella, The Junket, and memoir, Spermhood: Diary of a Donor. His articles and essays...