Who Knew I was a Slasher?

Many thanks to Isabella, for bringing this little gem to my attention! I've been distracted with this and that of late, so as a consequence I completely missed this little write-up in the Wired Blog about my Lethem and Chabon strip. In this interview with Lethem, he mentions that he'd love to be in a slash fiction story. As far as he knows, he's only been slashed once, by none other than moi. Boy do I feel uncool. I didn't even really know what slash fiction was, and apparently I've done it!

I love Lethem's description of my strip as  "a sublimated homoerotic comic that was just an inch away from being Kirk and Spock." Heh. And I'd never made the connection with the Kirk and Spock homoerotic thing in my strip before. That's another duo that I love, by the way. Maybe there's another strip there, somewhere...wait a minute, my brother and I already did that, though mind you, we neglected to add any homoerotic humour.

I leave you with this very silly cartoon of the Star Trek dudes, drawn many years ago. I found it a few weeks ago, when I was cleaning out all my old portfolio cases. Sorry for the crappy scan, but I had to scan it in sections, 'cuz it's this huge poster! For the life of me, I don't know what motivated me to create this. And why did I draw it in crayon? Only my therapist knows for sure...

Comments

[Johnny]

I don't think Lethem was necessarily pointing out any real similarities in your comic to Kirk and Spock so much as he was using them as an example of ultimate slash fiction -- Kirk/Spock erotic fiction is widely accepted as the genesis of the term "slash". God, why do I know this??

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[patricia]

Thanks for the clarification, Johnny. This is an area where I am totally clueless. And yeah...Why DO you know this stuff??? Hmmmmm???

Thanks for the link – Holy Crap!! My eyes!! My eyes!!

[Beth]

Not only does your blog entertain (the comic strips are great), it educates.
Now I know what "slash fiction" is.
(Although I'm not sure I really wanted to...)

[Isabella]

I wish your therapist had a blog...

[Debbie Ridpath Ohi]

:-D Thanks for sharing the scanned Star Trek cartoon. And congrats on the Wired mention!