Storyological 2.15 - THE GOTHIC TRAP

In which we discuss,

1. Selections from Super Mutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki, 2015.

2. “My Friend Janna” by Emily Carroll, Through the Woods, 2014.

along with, among other things...

Jillian Tamaki

• This One Summer
• “An Interview with Jillian Tamaki” by Rachel Davies in Rookie Mag

Emily Carroll

• Neko Case’s “Wild Creatures” illustrated Emily Carroll, in Past Magazine.
• An interview with Emily Carroll: A Fairy-Tale Teller in the Digital Age, by Taryn Hubbard at Room.

An Alchemical Mix

The setting is a satirical melange of X-Men, Harry Potter and teen dramas like Degrassi, all of which Tamaki cheerfully admits only passing familiarity with. “I had just done Strange Tales,” she recalled, a Marvel Comics anthology of cartoonists who would never otherwise draw any Marvel comic.

• “Jillian Tamaki: 'I need to spend less time in the minds of straight men’”, a profile, and review, from Chris Randle in The Guardian.
• “SuperMutant Magic Academy' Is Hogwarts With Nuts (And A Cherry)” by Etelka Lehoczy, writing for NPR Books.

I am the love that dare not speak it’s name

• A phrase from the poem “Two Loves” by Alfred Douglas, brought up at Oscar Wilde’s indecent trial concerning his supposed indeceny and sodomy, and which may or may not actually have anything in particular to do with what you think it has to do with depending on what you think it has to do with.
• You can read “Two Loves” by Alfred Douglas here.

You know what this story reminded me of?

• Twelfth Night, also featuring a love which dare not speak.
• Charles Schultz, writer of Peanuts. You know that Snoopy comic.
• “I am an animal trapped in your hot car.”
• Here Dead We Lie by A.E. Housman.
• Queerness, among other things, in The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, in an article by Brit Mandelo at Tor.com.

Also. Also.

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