Quickdraw Animation Society releases “On LGBTQ2S+ Animation”
The Quickdraw Animation Society has released On LGBTQ2S+ Animation, “a free publication with essays and comics exploring identity, representation and artistry in queer animation”. The publication collects a number of critical responses from an assortment of talented animation artists originally designed to accompany four animation screenings in Calgary, Alberta in 2019. These works have been compiled into a free digital publication with a limited print edition (delayed by the current COVID-19 crisis) to follow.
Reading these essays and comics, drawn and written by queer creators, and presenting a screening series to go with them has been an enlightening process for us at Quickdraw. We hope it will be just as meaningful everyone else who reads this publication, too. Like the films they discuss, these pieces are cathartic, critical, celebratory and caustic. They are honest, exploratory and inspiring—and we hope they will lead to more writing, more creation, and more understanding of the important contributions that queer creators have made, and will continue to make, to the medium of animation.
-Quickdraw Animation Society
The publication includes essays and comics by Abbey Bennett, Sam Decoste, Jillian Fleck, Colin Gallant, May G N, Sam Gurry, Mike Hooves, Kristen Hutchinson, Lyndon Navalta, Maria Stoian and Amia Yokoyama. with funding assistance from the Canada Council for the Arts as well as support from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and Calgary Arts Development.
On LGBTQ2S+ Animation can be viewed and downloaded on the Quickdraw Animation Society website released under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, with appropriately-credited sharing encouraged. A full list of films included in the publication and screening series is also available.