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In Fair Verona – Val Wise Creates a Twisted World of Tragedy in this ShortBox Comics Fair Offering

  • by Lydia Turner
  • October 23, 2024

“Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.” To literary…

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Cheer Up!: Love and Pompoms – Frasier and Wise’s Queer YA Graphic Novel is a Heartwarming Delight

  • by Holly Raidl
  • August 31, 2021

Cheer Up!: Love and Pompoms gets straight into the story, introducing us to all the characters through its high school setting. Annie is academically gifted but brash, which is what…

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Oni-Lion Forge Announce ‘Cheer Up!: Love and Pompoms’, a New Queer YA Graphic Novel by Crystal Frasier and Val Wise

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 28, 2021

Oni-Lion Forge have announced a new queer YA graphic novel coming this summer. Full details on Cheer Up!: Love and Pompoms in the press release below. CHEERLEADING AND QUEER RELATIONSHIPS…

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