I’ve decided that 2018 will be the year of
anthologies! As I looked over my bookshelves, I realized all the great talent
that I have enjoyed, but only in short bursts of one, two, or twelve pages.
I’ve amassed quite a few anthologies over the years, and now is the time to
give them a chance to shine. First up, I wanted to write about Oath: An Anthology of New (Queer) Heroes!
Funded by Kickstarter in 2015 (full disclosure: I contributed) and edited by
Audrey Redpath of Hiveworks Comics, Oath has more than thirty contributors and is more than two hundred pages long. I picked it up at FlameCon last year and
read the whole thing on the trip home. I’ve read it again since then, because
the stories are all wonderful examples of economical storytelling. They have deep
characterization and powerful messages in the amount of space most single-issue
comics reserve for their first act.
