remus jackson (they/he) is a published cartoonist, artist, and current phd student at the University of Florida. they co-host the podcast Drawing a Dialogue with Cathy G. Johnson.
their comics work explores desire, intimacy, and miscommunication, most often through the lens of neurodivergence and transness. they’ve been featured in multiple anthologies, including Rainbow Reflections (Ad Astra Comix, 2019), and the Ignatz-award winning We’re Still Here (Stacked Deck Press, 2018). their comics have been published by Diskette Press, ZEAL, and Boom! Studios, though their truest love is self-publishing. they’re currently working on a pitch for a YA graphic novel titled Wolves Don’t Make Eye Contact, which examines an unrequited romance between two close friends during the transition from high school to college. interested editors can contact Susan Graham at Einstein Literary Management to learn more.
in 2020 they completed their Master’s in English at the University of Florida. their thesis, Queer YA Graphic Novels and Queer/Crip Embodiment Through Autocritography, examines the lineage of queer young adult graphic novels in the context of the “YA graphic novel boom.” they analyze how “queer” became a marketing term for ya comics and what the potential limitations of marketing “queer” might be. the second part of their thesis takes up their own work as a site of inquiry, using autocritography to theorize themself as a transgender disabled artist working in comics.
their dissertation takes up small press and self-published comics and zines by trans creators as a site of inquiry, in order to analyze how trans creators (re)imagine their worlds and bodyminds. they draw on trans studies, queer theory, and crip theory to examine the stakes of drawn embodiment for trans artists, as well as the prefigurative political work trans creators embed into their comics and artist and audience networks. more broadly, they work in comic and zine studies, queer/trans theory, critical disability theory, critical pedagogy and museum studies.
press
“on salt, nostalgia, and coconut sunscreen: a conversation with remus jackson and mar julia", Spiny Orb Weaver #3, Radiator Comics, 2021.
Smash Pages Q&A, 2018