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.
Interview with Illustrator DALO
DALO is a prolific illustrator whom I had the opportunity to speak with. You can read our conversation below. First of all, welcome to Geeks OUT! Could you tell us a little about yourself? Hello! I'm DALO, an illustrator who works primarily in black and white line...
Interview with Myra Rose, Creator of Lovely Recipe
Myra Rose is a comic artist and Illustrator located in Upstate New York, sharing her apartment with 2 cats and 2 snakes. She attended Laguna College of Art and Design, majoring in animation but dabbling in other majors, eventually realizing her love of storytelling...
Interview with Sam Wachman, Author of The Sunflower Boys
Sam Wachman is a writer from Cambridge, Massachusetts with Ukrainian roots. His work has appeared in Sonora Review, Berkeley Fiction Review, and River Styx. Before writing The Sunflower Boys, he taught English to primary schoolers in central Ukraine and worked with...
Interview with Ngozi Ukazu, Creator of Flip
Ngozi Ukazu is a New York Times-bestselling and award-winning author and the creator of Check, Please!, an online graphic novel whose printing campaign remains the most funded webcomics Kickstarter ever. Her other works include the young adult graphic...
Interview with Amy Chu and Soo Lee, Creators of Carmilla: The First Vampire
Amy Chu is a self-starting Harvard graduate who formed her own company, Alpha Girl Comics, in 2010 with her friend, Georgia Lee. They felt there was a severe lack of female voices in the comic book industry at the time and wrote several stories for the Girls Night Out...
Interview with Amber Chen, Author of The Blood Phoenix
Amber Chen is a Singaporean Chinese author of SFF and contemporary fiction. She spends much of her free time living within Chinese fantasy novels and dramas, and also drinks one too many cups of bubble tea. One of her webnovels, The Cutting Edge, has been adapted for...
Interview with Illustrator Velinxi (Xiao Tong Kong)
Velinxi (Xiao Tong Kong) is a webcomic creator, illustrator, and aspiring novelist. Her chronic daydreaming has led to the creation of Countdown to Countdown, DPS Only! and most recently- Daughter of a Thousand Faces. The few hours of the week where she's not drawing...
Interview with Lyla Lee, Author of Love in Focus
Lyla Lee is the bestselling author of YA books about K-pop, K-dramas, and reality TV as well as the Mindy Kim series for younger readers. Her books have been translated into multiple languages around the world. Originally from South Korea, she’s lived in various...
Interview with Illustrator C. G. Esperanza
C.G.Esperanza was born the second of six cool kids. The South Bronx is where he first opened his eyelids. A land shrouded in bright colored decay, the birthplace of graffiti and the hip-hop DJ! He paints fantasy worlds of elephants, and castles too! Accompanying this...
Interview with Lindsey Byrd, Author of The Sun Blessed Prince
LINDSEY BYRD grew up in New York before moving abroad for graduate research studies. She is an amateur birder and enjoys going for hikes to take photos of nature. She enjoys all forms of speculative fiction, and is an avid researcher of history. I had the opportunity...