Introduction from Sexual Textual Tennis,
Copyright © 2015 by
Carolyn Gage and Rachel J. Fenton
Back in January, I connected with
playwright Carolyn Gage on LinkedIn. A few years previously, I'd asked Carolyn for permission to quote from her play
The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and use her as a character in one of my stories, which she agreed to, so I was pleased when she messaged me the following:
"If you're ever looking to illustrate a graphic novel, esp. a lesbian one... I've got some!"
Although I was too busy with the NZ Book Council's Graphic Exchange Residency, and the subsequent graphic work that went into Island to Island, and Three Words, and I wasn't able to take on a large unpaid project, I still wanted to collaborate, so I suggested we take the text from one of the essays on her blog and turn it into a comic.
Sexual Textual Tennis is the result. Also available in
paperback and as
downloadable pdf.
