Thursday, March 16, 2017

Single Issue Showcase: Kim & Kim #1 – “This Glamorous, High Flying, Rock Star Life”



The cover of Kim & Kim #1

The word semi-autobiographical would be probably the last one used to describe a comic about intergalactic queer female bounty hunters, but there is clearly a great deal of personal experience infused in the first issue of Black Mask Studios’ Kim & Kim written by Magdalene “Mags” Visaggio and drawn by Eva Cabrera, with letters by Zakk Saam and colors by Claudia Aguirre. That these elements are in a sci-fi story with clear debts to two very famous animes is a testament to the power of representation in media and genre storytelling.