#dc pride celebration of rachel pollack

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DC Comics Announces "DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack" and "DC Pride: Uncovered"

In addition to DC Pride 2024, on sale May 28, 2024, DC Comics has announces a couple other DC Pride titles for 2024 - DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack and DC Pride: Uncovered.

DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack celebrated the life of works of writer Rachel Pollack. The 96-page one-shot comic book will reprint the debut of Kate Godwin / Coagula, DC's first transgender hero, from Doom Patrol #70, who was created by Pollack and pencilled by Scot Eaton. The comic will also reprint Pollack and artist Michael Allred's Vertigo Visons: The Geek. Finally, the one-shot will also feature a new Coagula short story from Pollack's friend and collaborator Joe Corallo and artist Rye Hickman.

DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack #1 goes on sale on June 6, 2024.

DC Pride: Uncovered #1 is a collection of variant covers spotlighting DC's LGBTQIA+ characters across the DCU. The collection is scripted by Andrea Shea, DC editor and includes covers from Jen Bartel, Phil Jimenez, Jim Lee, Joshua “Sway” Swaby, David Talaski, Babs Tarr, Kris Anka, and more.

DC Pride: Uncovered #1 goes on sale on June 11, 2024. The collection of covers features a main cover by Jen Bartel and variant covers by Oscar Vega, Luciano Vecchio, Mateus Manhanini, and Jim Lee, Scott Williams, and Tamra Bonvillain.

(Images via DC Comics - Cover of DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack #1 and Jen Bartel's Main Cover of DC Pride: Uncovered #1)

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DC announces their plans for Pride Month 2024

The DC Pride anthology returns, along with a tribute book to Rachel Pollack, new YA graphic novels and more.

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DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack by Rachel Pollack, Joe Corallo, Michael Allred, Scot Eaton and Rye Hickman. Cover by various. Out in June.

"In the 1990s, writer Rachel Pollack did the impossible: she raised the bar for surprise and strangeness in her beloved run following Grant Morrison’s career-making Doom Patrol! This one-shot reprints the debut of the iconic Coagula, DC’s first transgender superhero, from Doom Patrol #70, along with the long-unavailable one-shot Vertigo Visions: The Geek (with superstar artist Michael Allred)! And in a final, original short story, Rachel’s most beloved creation, Kate Godwin, a.k.a. Coagula, returns to the spotlight in tale of triumph over death itself written by Joe Corallo, Rachel’s longtime friend and collaborator, and drawn by Rye Hickman!"

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DC's Pride Anthology returns in 2024 with a celebration of Rachel Pollack and more!

DC's Pride Anthology returns in 2024 with a celebration of Rachel Pollack and more! #comics #comicbooks #lgbt

[why-i-love-comics]

DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack #1 - "Shinning Through the Wreckage" (2024)

written by Joe Corallo art by Rye Hickman

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welcome back, Kate DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack #1 (2024)

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Top New DC Comic Releases for the Week of June 5, 2024.

Batman #148,

Birds of Prey #10,

DC Pride: Celebration of Rachel Pollack #1,

Kneel before Zod #6,

Mad Magazine #1 Facsimile,

My Adventures with Superman #1,

Poison Ivy #23,

Shazam #12,

Suicide Squad: Kill Arkham asylum #5 +

The Boy Wonder #2.

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realized i never posted this. here's all the comics i read for the first time in 2024, not including my dnf list.

asterisks denote ongoings and were deleted once the comic concluded. you can kinda see where i lost momentum around... idk, july, maybe? partially due to mental health issues. you can also see where i would get caught up in a specific universe and start going wild.

full list is below the cut as well:

Doctor Mid-nite (1999)

Cave Carson Has A Cybernetic Eye (2016)

Cave Carson Has An Interstellar Eye (2018)

Speed Force (2023)

Wesley Dodds: The Sandman (2023)

The Ray (2012)

Vertigo Visions: The Geek (1993)

Vertigo Visions: Dr. Thirteen (1998)

Vertigo Visions: Tomahawk (1998)

Terror Titans (2008)

Terra (2009)

Nights (2023)*

Spider-Punk (2022)

Triumph (1995)

Anarky (1997)

Anarky (1999)

Jay Garrick: The Flash (2023)

A-Force (2015)

Vertigo Visions: Doctor Occult (1994)

Blood and Water (2003)

Midnight, Mass (2002)

Midnight, Mass: Here There Be Monsters (2004)

Prez (2015)

Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles (2018)

Angeltown (2005)

Vertigo Voices: The Eaters (1995)

The Books of Magic (1990)

The Trenchcoat Brigade (1999)

Mystik U (2017)

Books of Magic (2018)

Day of Judgement Secret Files (1999)

JLA: Black Baptism (2001)

Mister E (1991)

Vertigo Secret Files: Hellblazer (2000)

Hellblazer/The Books of Magic (1997)

The Sandman Universe (2018)

The Flintstones (2016)

4 Kids Walk Into A Bank (2016)

What’s The Furthest Place From Here? (2021)*

Break Out (2022)

Mouse Guard (2005)

Alan Scott: The Green Lantern (2023)

DC Power (2024)

Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen (2019)

The Red Circle: The Web (2009)

The Red Circle: The Shield (2009)

The Red Circle: The Hangman (2009)

The Red Circle: The Inferno (2009)

The Web (2009)

The Shield (2009)

The Mighty Crusaders (2010)

The Mighty Crusaders: The Lost Crusade (2015)

New Crusaders: Rise of the Heroes (2012)

New Crusaders: Dark Tomorrow (2015)

The Mighty Crusaders (2017)

Archie’s Superteens Versus Crusaders (2018)

The Fox (2013)

The Fox (2015)

The Pride (2014)

The Fox: Family Values (2022)

The Pride Season Two (2019)

Soul Kiss (2009)

Hopeless Savages (2001)

Spider-Punk: Arms Race (2024)*

Arrowsmith (2003)

Arrowsmith: Behind Enemy Lines (2022)

Astro City: That Was Then… (2022)

Final Crisis Aftermath: Run! (2009)

Blacksad: Somewhere Within the Shadows (2000) [as Blacksad (2010)]

Blacksad: Arctic Nation (2002) [as Blacksad (2010)]

Blacksad: Red Soul (2005) [as Blacksad (2010)]

Blacksad: A Silent Hell (2012)

Blacksad: Amarillo (2014)

Blacksad: They All Fall Down (2021)

Suicide Squad: Dream Team (2024)

Batman/Dylan Dog (2024)

The Wrong Earth: Dead Ringers (2024)*

Project: Cryptid (2023)*

Justice Society of America (2022)

DC’s Ape-ril Special (2024)

Sandman Mystery Theatre (1993)

Sandman Midnight Theatre (1995)

Deadweights (2024)

DC’s Spring Breakout (2024)

DV8 vs Black Ops (1997)

21 Down (2002)

DC Pride 2024 (2024)

WildStorm Thunderbook (2000)

DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack

Venom: Separation Anxiety (2024)*

Sabrina (2018)

The Weatherman (2018)

The Weatherman (2019)

The Weatherman (2024)

The X-Files/Transformers: Conspiracy (2014)

Xombi (1994)

Absolute Power (2024)

Local Man (2023)*

Local Man: Gold (2023)

Local Man: Bad Girls (2024)

Absolute Power: Task Force VII (2024)

Superman Y2K (2000)

Multiversus: Collision Detected (2024)*

DC’s I Know What You Did Last Crisis (2024)

DC All-In Special (2024)

Absolute Batman (2024)*

DC Horror Presents… (2024)*

Absolute Wonder Woman (2024)*

JSA (2024)*

Absolute Superman (2024)*

Black Lightning (2024)*

The Question: All Along the Watchtower (2024)*

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DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack. Reprinted from Vertigo Visions: The Geek. Art by Mike Allred

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The Barbie movie ripped off Rachel Pollack smh. A trans woman did it first 30 years ago!

Happy pride 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

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Resources for an Incomplete Queer History of DC Comics

About two months ago, for my final project in an elective I was taking about Queer History I researched a part of queer history that we didn't touch on in class and then compile resources and create a reader based on our topic. I chose to research Queerness in DC Comics. This project was very important to me and it kind of feels weird to just let it disappear into the ether, and I figured it might be appreciated here.

This history is very much incomplete (it focuses very much on the 80's and 90's and my own centers of knowledge, lingering on things I found interesting) and I'm sure there are people who have done it better, but I wanted to share it anyway. This is also very much meant to be a celebration of queerness and queerness in comics, so it shines a very nice light on DC that they may or may not deserve. Some of the resources I'm including here aren't in my final project because of either time and space constraints, or because they were a little too out there to include in a project that was meant to be read by someone who doesn't know much about comics (but many of those sources were referenced in the project because I wrote summaries of some sources if I couldn't find one that did the job for me), inversely, the parts of my project that I wrote myself aren't in here because I really want to share the resources I found for whoever else might be curious. It's organized more or less chronologically, I'm putting links wherever I can, and I'll put an asterisks next to some of the resources that require some more background knowledge, also any sources written in the same color text (that's not the default) were used together to write a summary source. I hope someone at least finds this useful or interesting.

“The Evolution of Queer Representation in DC Comics” by Alex Jaffe   (yes I know this is from DC's website, but it's a good overview)

The Free Love Experiment that Created Wonder-Woman by Noah Berlatsky

The Caped Crusade: The Rise and Fall of Nerd Culture by Glen Weldon (2016), “Panic and Aftermath (1948-1964)” (this whole book is very good)

The Comics Code of 1954

“Scholar Finds Flaws in Work by Archenemy of Comics” by Dave Itzkoff

Batman #181 (July, 1966) (everyone needs to read this a) because it's Poison Ivy's first comic and b) because Robin's horror at Batman kissing Poison Ivy (yes I know her kiss is poisonous) really gets rid of any heterosexuality they might have been trying to push)

“How Vertigo Changed Comics Forever” by Abraham Josephine Riesman

**“Monstrous Relationalities: The Horrors of Queer Eroticism and 'Thingness' in Alan Moore and Stephen Bissette's Swamp Thing” by Robin A. McDonald and Dan Vena

*“‘...And then what?’ Vertigo Comics’ Enigma” by Chloe Maveal

“Let’s Talk 90’s Vertigo, The Revolution it Started, and How Marvel Ruined it” by David Harth

**“‘One of the Things They Definitely Are is Queer’: an Interview with Rachel Pollack” by Alex Dueben

“DC Comics shuts down Vertigo imprint a year after relaunch” by Christie d’Zurilla

“Diversity is Part of Very Soul of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman” by Marc Burrows

“As Above, So Below: Actions and Reactions of the Sandman and Trans Representation” by Joanna Marsh

“Queer Superhero History: The First Trans Character in Comics” by Jessica Plummer

“Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean: how we made The Sandman” interview by Phil Hoad

“‘I can’t do superheroes, but I can do gods’: Neil Gaiman on comics, diversity and casting Death” interview by John Harris Dunning

“The Sandman: A Beginner's Guide” by Scott Meslow

DC Pride 2023, “A Tribute to Rachel Pollack”

"SuperGay: Depictions of Homosexuality in Mainstream Superhero Comics" by Kara Kvaran (2014) in Comics as History, Comics as Literature: Roles of the Comic Book in Scholarship, Society, and Entertainment edited by Annessa Ann Babic 

The Flash (vol. 2) #53, August 1991: The Pied Piper comes out

“Death talks about Life” by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean

DC Pride: Through the Ages, “Introduction” by Benjamin Le Clear

Comics Code History: The Seal of Approval

“A History of Queer Characters in DC Comics” by Les Fabian Brathwaite

“Catwoman comes out as bisexual” by Henry Hanks

“Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy: A History” by Brian Cronin

“The new Superman comes out as bisexual in an upcoming comic” by Scottie Andrew

“Wonder Woman is Getting the Queer Romance She Deserves in New DC Comic” by Mey Rude

“DC Announces ‘DC Pride’ Anthology Comic to Arrive June 8, and More!” DC Press Release

The DC Book of Pride

There is more, so check the reblogs (I'll also include the issues I used panels from in the reblogs)

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DC Pride A Celebration of Rachel Pollack

Rest in Power 🙏

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Comic reactions:

Batman Scooby Doo Mysteries: Cute little story. Also, get dunked on, Cluemaster. 

DC Pride A Celebration of Rachel Pollack: Welcome Back Kate. Good Celebration. 

Captain Marvel: That was a lot. I want to see where this goes before making a “proper judgment”, but still, I am enjoying this book. 

Ms Marvel Mutant Menace: That was cool, but not sure how to feel her mutant powers being the MCU version. Still, I do like the character development. I dislike how Medusa spoke of the X-men though.

Birds of Prey: That was cool. Really cements Barda and Cass as friends, those forged as weapons but found more.

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Rachel Pollack, who passed away last year, introduced DC’s first trans character Coagula during her run on Doom Patrol back in the 1990s. As a part of Pride Month, DC will release DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack, which will feature reprints of Doom Patrol #70, Coagula’s first appearance; Vertigo Visions: The Geek, the long out-of-print one-shot by Pollack and Mike Allred; and a new Coagula story by Joe Corallo and Rye Hickman.

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John Romita Sr and More

My guest this week is Dan Hort! What stores did Brett and Dan used to get their comics at? Is anime more popular than comic books? Why do people stop collecting comic books? Is the anime style easier for kids to draw? Is there money in collecting action figures and busts? What is the Galactus Tax on original art? Who were the big three in the early days of Marvel Comics? Did Stan Lee and Steve Ditko get along? Who is the greatest Spider-Man artist of all time? What's one way to put a value on original art? What was Steve Ditko really like? 

Reading list: Dragonball Z DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack Ultimate Spider-Man (new series) Star Trek Celebrations John Romita's The Amazing Spider-Man Artisan Edition

Watch list: Battle of the Planets Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2202 Astro Boy My Neighbor Totoro Kiki's Delivery Service One Piece (live action) The Wind Rises The Boy and the Heron

Recorded 9-12-24 via Zencastr

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Preview: DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack #1

DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack #1 preview. Rachel Pollack did the impossible: she raised the bar for surprise and strangeness in her beloved run following Grant Morrison's career-making Doom Patrol! #comics #comicbooks

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DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack #1 - "Doom Patrol Block Party" (2024)

pin-up by Marie Llovet