queering the hero – Edward Ficklin

Exclusively Queer?

When you start to engage with the cishet power brokers and gatekeepers, pundits and pontificators, you’ll often get the well-intentioned advice to straighten it up or go nowhere.

The most important part of the book is—

I would never be offended to hear “I bought your book for the cover.”

Boi Wonder

Painting of young man leaning against a wall, in a costume not unlike that of Robin, the Boy Wonder, of Batman fame.

2020, 17 in. x 11 in.
Gouache on paper