Professional Writing on Nerdy Topics
Contributor to 2016 Hugo Award Winner for Best Semiprozine, Uncanny Magazine.
Recipient of 2017 Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism on the A.V. Club's Comic Panel and Back Issues features, along with Oliver Sava, Shea Hennum, Tegan O'Neil, and J. A. Micheline.
Bi-Weekly/weekly reviews on The A.V. Club here. (After a change in CMS, some of my posts in 2015 and 2016 are difficult to locate, you can find all of the Comics Panels here.)
Weekly required reading on Paste Magazine here. (October 2016 to June 2019 when the comics vertical was shut down.)
June 2019 The A.V. Club: 9 queer comics that go beyond pride
May 2019 Paste Magazine: Under the Moon: A Catwoman Tale Artist Isaac Goodhart Brings Teen Selina Kyle to Life for DC Ink
March 2019 Polygon: The pressure on Captain Marvel is overwhelming — and it always has been How the ‘Carol Corps’ fandom shook the comics industry, and could return for Marvel’s tentpole take
March 2019 Paste Magazine: Magdalene Visaggio & Claudia Aguirre Wake Up to Morning in America
January 2019 Paste Magazine: Mike Norton Embraces Swords, Sorcery & Snorts in Battlepug: The Compugdium
January 2019 Paste Magazine: The Most Anticipated Comics of 2019, Part 1 and Part 2
December 2018 Paste Magazine:
November 2018 The A.V. Club: The best comics of 2018
November 2018 Paste Magazine: 10 Comics to Help You Escape (or Appreciate) Your Family this Holiday Season
November 2018 Paste Magazine: Sincerely, Harriet Cartoonist Sarah Winifred Searle Talks Old Buildings & Intersectionality
October 2018 Paste Magazine: The 31 Best Scary Comics For Kids (Updated)
October 2018 Paste Magazine: 100 of the Best Horror Comics
August 2018 Paste Magazine: Sanpaku’s Kate Gavino on Patterns, Perspective & Pacing
August 2018 Paste Magazine: The Crowded Creative Team Breaks Down the Gig Economy, Social Media & Style
July 2018 Paste Magazine: Mystik U’s Alisa Kwitney Talks Campus Magic & Female Friendship
June 2018 Paste Magazine: Loud & Proud: 20 LGBTQ+-Inclusive Comics for Pride Month
March 2018 Paste Magazine: Cecil Castellucci on Shade, the Changing Girl’s Growth Into Shade, The Changing Woman
January 2018 Paste Magazine: The 40 Most Anticipated Comics of 2018
December 2017 The A.V. Club: The best comics of 2017
December 2017 Paste Magazine: The 25 Best Comics of 2017
November 2017 The A.V. Club: DC has finally fired Eddie Berganza—but abuse and harassment go much deeper in the tight-knit comics industry
September to November 2017 The A.V. Club: Weekly TV reviews of Marvel's Inhumans
June 2017 The A.V. Club: The A.V. Club’s favorite comics of 2017 so far
June 2017 Paste Magazine:
May 2017 Paste Magazine: The Best Comic Colorists of 2017 (So Far)
May 2017 Paste Magazine: The 10 Best Comic Artists of 2017 (So Far)
April 2017 Paste Magazine:
Queer Comedy/Romance Gets a "Grim" Spin in Sarah Graley's Kim Reaper (Review)
Henchgirl Cartoonist Kristen Gudsnuk on the Perils of Young Adulthood & Supervillain Employment (Interview)
March 2017 Paste Magazine: Liz Prince and Amanda Kirk Craft an All-Ages comic About Death, Sisterhood and Punk in Coady and the Creepies (Interview)
March 2017 Paste Magazine: Marguerite Bennett, Rafael de Latorre & Juan Doe's Animosity Vol. 1 Shows a World Where the Fauna Bites Back (Review)
February 2017 Paste Magazine: Batwoman: Rebirth #1 is the Relaunch Kate Kane has Deserved for Years (Review)
February 2017 Paste Magazine: 15 of the Most Important Modern Sex Scenes in Comics
January 2017 Paste Magazine: 50 of the Best Sci-Fi Comics
December 2016 The A.V. Club: Best comics of 2016
December 2016 Paste Magazine:
November 2016 The A.V. Club: 15 years ago, the prescient X-Force used mutants to explore the dangers of fame
November 2016 Paste Magazine: Required Reading: 40 of the Best Webcomics
October 2016 Paste Magazine:
Steve Orlando & Jakub Rebelka Bring Sci-Fi Family Drama Home in Namesake (Interview)
Sarah Vaughn Exhumes Gothic Romance in Deadman: Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love (Interview)
August 2016 The A.V. Club: Akira kicked open the door for manga’s rise to popularity in the U.S.
July 2016 Paste Magazine: Under the Radar: 10 Comics That Deserve Your Attention
June 2016 The A.V. Club:
Self-published comics are changing an aging industry—for the better
Raina Telgemeier’s Smile Signaled a sea change in comics still felt today
May 2016 The A.V. Club: With Civil War, Marvel dusted off inane source material for superfights
May 2016 Paste Magazine: Why The Eisners Need to Show Webcomics Some Love
May 2016 The Learned Fangirl: Book Review – The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics
April 2016 The A.V. Club: The Dark Knight Returns casts a long, enduring shadow on superhero comics
March 2016 The A.V. Club: Investigating Lois Lane uncovers the steel spine of Superman’s girlfriend
January 2016 The Learned Fangirl: We’re Just Getting Started: Merely Existing in Comics Isn’t the Same as Being Represented
December 2015 The A.V. Club:
July 1015 The A.V. Club: David F. Walker talks Shaft, Cyborg, and a changing industry (Interview)
July 2015 Uncanny Magazine #5: Representation Matters: Embracing Change in Comics (Uncanny Magazine won the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine for their work in 2015.)
May 2015 The A.V. Club: Marvel learned the wrong lessons from the Carol Corps
May 2014 The Missouri Review Blog: Changing Demographics in Comics Mean Women Aren’t Content Being Fridged
October 2011 The 3Six5 Chicago: Caitlin Rosberg
November 2010 The 3Six5 Project: Caitlin Rosberg