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Beth Dillon and Myron Lameman

Aug 08, 2009 10:45

Two short works, both 22-page, single-issue webcomics, both by Beth Dillon (Anishinaabe, Metis, Irish) and Myron Lameman (Beaver Lake Cree Nation).

11. The West Was Lost.Native Steampunk, wherein Anishinaabe warriors -- led by the young woman who is our POV character, Nezette -- travel west to destroy an oil derrick ( Read more... )

(delicious), comics, short-works, native-american

Comments 8

la_vie_noire August 8 2009, 18:07:11 UTC

Wow. Things like these make me happy. Thank you!

sanguinity August 9 2009, 00:21:47 UTC

Yay!

alias_sqbr August 9 2009, 00:28:06 UTC

We can do webcomics? Sweet.

Those are good comics but a really annoying site (though I like the concept behind the publisher). To anyone else having trouble: click on the dialogue to make it readably big (you can also make it fullscreen, but I got bored of waiting for it to load)

sanguinity August 9 2009, 00:38:14 UTC

Yeah, we can do webcomics. Print publishing seems to be a threshold that authors of color have a harder time getting across, so I'm not particularly inclined to give it a lot of weight in the comm. Other mods may have somewhat different positions on the why, but also agree that there's no strong argument for drawing a line between electronic and print.

I should have given a tutorial -- it bugged me first go-through, too. Did you find the bit where you can turn the speech-balloons off? If you want to see any of the panel art unobstructed, you have that option.

I find other all aspects of the site nearly impossible to use, I'm sorry to say. Things I know I saw once, I'm having a horrible time finding a second time.

alias_sqbr August 10 2009, 05:29:51 UTC

I was thinking "I should do a post about webcomics!" then remembered I still haven't finished with the books I've already read :)

oddmonster August 9 2009, 20:56:33 UTC

I'm really glad you posted this review of The West Was Lost. I'd been despairing at ever finding some POC-driven Steampunk. I'll definitely be picking this up. Thanks!

sanguinity August 11 2009, 04:02:34 UTC

It's a webcomic; I'm not sure that there's a print edition?

Yeah, I don't know of much. Monique Poirier, who is Wampanoag, has a story in Like Clockwork, a collection of erotic steampunk stories. (I haven't read the collection.) She's working on a novel, too -- I want to go poke around in that AU she describes. :-)

oddmonster August 12 2009, 01:52:52 UTC

Wow, embarrassment of riches. There's really nothing that doesn't say win about erotic steampunk nor a whole novel full of that AU...