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"I want a dyke for president. I want a person with AIDS for president and I want a fag for vice president and I want someone with no health insurance and I want someone who grew up in a place where the earth is so saturated with toxic waste that they didn’t have a choice about getting leukemia. I want a president that had an abortion at sixteen and I want a candidate who isn’t the lesser of two evils and I want a president who lost their last lover to AIDS, who still sees that in their eyes every time they lay down to rest, who held their lover in their arms and knew they were dying. I want a president with no air-conditioning, a president who has stood in line at the clinic, at the DMV, at the welfare office, and has been unemployed and laid off and sexually harassed and gaybashed and deported. I want someone who has spent the night in the tombs and had a cross burned on their lawn and survived rape. I want someone who has been in love and been hurt, who respects sex, who has made mistakes and learned from them. I want a Black woman for president. I want someone with bad teeth and an attitude, someone who has eaten that nasty hospital food, someone who crossdresses and has done drugs and been in therapy. I want someone who has committed civil disobedience. And I want to know why this isn’t possible. I want to know why we started learning somewhere down the line that a president is always a clown. Always a john and never a hooker. Always a boss and never a worker. Always a liar, always a thief, and never caught."

I Want A President (1992) by Zoe Leonard

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Cat-Eyed Boy (猫目小僧) // Kazuo Umezu

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It's time!!

I am so thrilled to share that Bottom of the Sea Scans has translated Yuujin no Sougi/Funeral For a Friend - one of the earliest serialized manga by Asada Nemui! It's an existential short story about the relationship between a trio of lifelong friends...with that Asada je ne sais quoi!

This oneshot was serialized in the seinen magazine Monthly Big Gangan, and has not been reprinted since. I came across a copy of the magazine issue on Mercari, which was generously tl'd and edited by Ikari, Tasogare, Yun and the rest of the BotSS crew!

Check it out!

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The Fitness Myth by Kinuko Y. Craft for Playboy, May 1988

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Suspiria (サスペリア) / Akita Shoten (秋田書店) / Sep 2001 issue

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Can't spoil it...but something really, really good is coming soon for Asada Nemui fans

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Halloween parade!

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Clive Barker (b. 1952) - The Stichlings Howl

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Marshall Arisman, 1983

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I'm baffled by the hype for the Red River reprint.

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Sleeping Dead Canna chapter covers, 6-11

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Sleeping Dead Canna chapter covers, 1-5

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過去のあなたの集積が 今のあなたを形作っている The accumulation of your past shaping who you are today. Painting & words by Karin Hosono. Japanese artist born 2002.