If This Be Sin Mariner Books – Globe and Mail

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A 2018 YALSA Great Graphic Novel

Little is spared her lively pen and waggish

I used to believe that by being a bonafide alternative black girl meant that I was denying an essential part of who I am — my blackness

A Vagrant is an uproarious romp through history and literature seen through the sharp

If This Be Sin Mariner Books – Globe and MailBy Hazel Newlevant. Self published. Softcover, 44 pages, Colour, 2013. Winner of the 2013 Prism Comics Queer Press Grant! 'If This Be Sin' is a collection of comics about queer women expressing themselves through music. It tells the stories of Gladys Bentley, the Harlem Renaissance blues singer and drag king, and Wendy and Lisa, the lesbian rockstars of Prince and the Revolution. "Hazel Newlevant draws like a dream and weaves a mesmerizing story. 'If