From Ali Adler to Nahnatchka Khan to Ilene Chaiken to three different women named “Liz,” you might not recognize their faces, but you’ll definitely recognize their work.

“Right now I’m working on my astral projection skills and I think that should speed things along.”

Autostraddle walks you through the entire history of trans female characters on American television from 1965-2015.

Types of libidos, healing crystal dildos, an open relationship comic and more.

It’s Gal Pal Week on Autostraddle.com! Let’s kick it off by counting down television friendships we adore!

Kate Leth, famous for her Kate or Die! comics has recently been taking on the world of comic fandom with a special series of exclusive comics for the website Comics Alliance.

Kate Beaton brings us this collection of touching and tragic tales from her time working on the oil sands of Alberta.

Recent books featuring queer people of color, travelling and reading, reading and your brain, your favorite curse word and more. Plus coverage of the Harper Lee coverage.

Topics include Dominique Moceanu, crowdfunding, recording our lives on social media, illness and diagnosis in comics, fan fiction, murder, the end of “bohemian” San Francisco and so much more!

“I’ve never had a move that felt so little like being jolted from one space to another and so much like something clicking into place.”

Queer Book Club has lots of great recommendations, a new short story by Malinda Lo, a feminist coloring book and more!

Why are you crying again? How are you supposed to handle this? What are feelings and why do you keep having them? Let’s find out!

On the first day of February, comic creators from all over the place try to draw one comic for every hour they’re awake. Here are some from the artists I’ve featured in this column.

Lambda finalists, queer representation in comics, Emily Books getting more awesome and more.

Rachel: “The writing & philosophy class I was required to take freshman year mostly sucked. But there was this one girl, Lizz, who seemed cool. She wore comic book tshirts and had beautiful shiny hair. One day after class, I announced to a friend, ‘Lizz is not straight. I can just tell.'”
Lizz: “There was something about Rachel that I just couldn’t shake. She spent a lot of time quoting feminist theorists who I’d never heard of and she had what I would later come to call ‘Congenital Gay Face.'”

Lily Tomlin and Laverne Cox lit up the red carpet at the Tribeca Film Festival, Tig Notaro’s new comedy-documentary is a hit, Ellen wants to be an Avenger, the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival is coming to a close, and this is how you cuddle a pony.

“In other, lighter news I want to share with everyone that there is a segment of a hot dog on the section of our roof that we can see from the bedroom window.”

“If someone had been like, “You are going to write a thing and it’s going to be fully produced and you are gonna star in it and it’s gonna be really good,” I would’ve been like, nah.”

“Haircut,” a short online comic by Sara Goetter is a super cute story about a princess and the lady knight who rescued her. Goetter’s other comics take a similar tone with even more stories about precocious young women and the adventures they go on.

Stormer and Kimber will be a couple in the new Jem and the Holograms comic book, but they were kind of already a couple in the ’80s cartoon.