Watch When Available!YouTube: https://youtu.be/m0MGIJI0ep4The comic world's longest-running panel is 33 this year and enters the virtual age with Comic-Con@Home! As the comic book world has become a celebrated part of the pop culture world, "Out In Comics" is more relevant than ever before. With LGBTQ or LGBTQ-friendly creators as writers, artists, directors, producers, actors, entertainers, and journalists, what do their characters and creations mean for diverse representation, characters, and storylines in comics, film, and television? In our politicized and sometimes polarized world, what kind of heroes do we need, both behind-the-scenes, and on the page and screen? At a time when politics, viruses, racism, homophobia, and transphobia--sometimes interchangeable--intrude on every aspect of our lives, join Prism Comics and our diverse all-star panel to celebrate and spotlight creators, comics, and fans as they discuss the past, present, and future of Out In Comics! Founding moderator and bestselling author
Andy Mangels (
Wonder Woman ‘77 Meets The Bionic Woman, Star Trek and Star Wars books and comics) again chairs the panel and welcomes special guests, including
Christian Cooper (famous bird-watcher and Karen-fighter, co-creator, and writer of the Marvel series
Darkhold and
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, editor of the
Marvel Swimsuit Specials, and creator of the
Independent Queer Nation online gay comic),
Hazel Newlevant (cartoonist of the graphic novellas
If This Be Sin and
Sugar Town, and their recent graphic memoir
No Ivy League. They have edited and published the anthologies
Chainmail Bikini: The Anthology of Women Gamers and Co
mics For Choice, and co-edited the Eisner-winning anthology Puer
to Rico Strong. They are the recipient of Ignatz, Xeric, and Prism Grant awards.),
Noelle Stevenson (executive producer and showrunner for DreamWorks
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, author of
The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures, Eisner and GLAAD Media Award-winning and
New York Times bestselling writer of
Nimona and Lumberjanes),
Tim Sheridan (writer for WB Animation and Netflix, with credits on
DC Super Hero Girls, Justice League Action, Scooby-Doo!, Teen Titans Go!, Reign Of the Superman, The Death and Return of Superman, and the upcoming
Superman: Man of Tomorrow and
Netflix's Masters of the Universe: Revelation).
Panelist Links
Andy Mangels - http://www.andymangels.com
Hazel Newlevant - newlevant.com
Noelle Stevenson - Twitter - @Gingerhazing
Tim Sheridan - Twitter @iamtimsheridan
Prism Comics - https://www.prismcomics.org
