Email: denise@sequentialtart.com
Websites: Sequential Tart, CompuServe Comics Forum

Bio: Denise Sudell is the Resident Lesbian (and a staff writer) at the award-winning, woman-produced comics webzine Sequential Tart. Her recent Tarticles about queers in comics include Face-Off of the Flaming Queens, a comparison of Marvel's Rawhide Kid with DC Comics/Vertigo's Go-Go Fiasco and Donna Barr's Desert Peach, in the May 2003 issue.

Since mid-2002, she's been a member of the Comic Book Nominating Committee for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)'s annual Media Awards. She also hangs out on (and serves as Assistant Sysop for) the CompuServe Comics Forum, whose members have been described by the ever-charitable Warren Ellis as \%\%fangeezers.\%\%

In her paying job, she's an attorney working underground (read: within the system) to keep the evil overseers of the Bush administration from dismantling U.S. federal civil rights laws.

Primary turn-on: sanity. Turn-offs include poor punctuation and Rick Santorum.

RECENT PRISM COMICS FEATURES

DAVID'S GEEK-O-RAMA COMIC-CON SATURDAY REPORT PART II!
[News, Posted 7/27/08]
As promised, Possums, Part II of my Saturday Comic-Con report. First, an amazing costume of The Question aka Renee Montoya. She was at the "Gays in Comics" panel, which I'll detail below, posing a Question to the panel. Very cool. I saw other amazing costumes/transformations at the CON, as well. I don't know what characters these are, but they're Christian Sirano-level fierce. Here's the Prism Events Chair, Ted Abenheim, pulling off The Escapist. Great work at the Con this year, Ted! …

STAN LEE ANNOUNCES DEAL WITH HERO'S PERRY MOORE AT COMIC-CON
[News, Posted 7/24/08]
SAN DIEGO, CA – Thursday, July 24 – Comics legend Stan Lee has signed a deal with acclaimed novelist Perry Moore, author of the award-winning gay superhero novel Hero. The two creators announced their new business partnership today at the Comic-Con International: San Diego panel “LGBT Portrayals in Comics.” Lee appeared as a surprise guest at the panel, sponsored by Prism Comics, a nonprofit organization that promotes lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) creators and…

PRISM ANNOUNCES COMIC-CON 2008 SCHEDULE: EXPANDED BOOTH, PANELS GALORE, SUPERHERO DANCE PARTY AND MORE
[News, Posted 7/14/08]
This is it! Prism's full slate of events for San Diego Comic-Con International 2008, jam-packed with panels, parties, special events and special guests including Perry Moore, Ariel Schrag, Phil Jimenez, Marc Andreyko, Joe Phillips, Dave Davenport, Lynx Delirium, Charles Christensen, Gail Simone, Judd Winick and many many more! Prism is especially proud this year to offer an expanded booth, with special booth partners, plus portfolio review for those interested in applying to the Queer Press Grant! Read on!

"QUEER EYE ON COMICS"
[News, Posted 2/4/04]
Just how gay are comic books? That question is one that will be explored on a weekly basis in Queer Eye on Comics, a new review feature presented by Prism Comics. At the beginning of each week the nonprofit organization, which advocates for greater inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) characters and creators in the comic book industry, will offer a new humorous review of a past or current comic book on its website, www.prismcomics.org. "In the well-worn comics…

LESBIAN INVADES MAINSTREAM COMICS PAGE!
[News, Posted 9/15/03]
In recent years, even as entertainment outlets everywhere opened up to gay content, newspaper comic pages had been holding on to their conservative approach to humor. That's all about to change. Jane's World, the first mainstream-syndicated comic strip featuring a gay lead character, will make its comics page debut September 21st in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The daily strip by Georgia-native Paige Braddock has been building an audience online since 1998 and was picked up…

RECENT OFFSITE FEATURES

24-YEAR HISTORY OF THE GAYS IN COMICS AND PRISM PANELS
[Source: AndyMangels.com, Added: 7/26/11]
Look below for a history of the incredible legacy of the Gays In Comics panels, and the PRISM Comics panels that were birthed from them! All 24 Gays In Comics panels have been moderated by...

QUEER CHARACTERS: HOOK 'EM UP, THEN SHOOT 'EM DOWN
[Source: Sequential Tart, Added: 10/16/05]
Damn them. God damn them. The Midnighter is dead. Half of the first gay male superhero couple ever featured in one of the Big Two's mainstream comics — you read that right, the first ever — has...

HISTORICAL NEWS FLASH
[Source: The Great Curve, Added: 1/26/05]
Carla Speed McNeil, writer/artist/publisher/everything else of the multiple-Eisner-nominated series Finder, has confirmed that she is related to Abe Lincoln's alleged boyfriend. Turns out that Joshua...

SEQUENTIAL TART
[Source: Sequential Tart, Added: 10/5/04]
A Web Zine about the comics industry published by an eclectic band of women, dedicated to providing exclusive interviews, in-depth articles, and news, while working towards raising the awareness of...