Transgender Comics: Interview with Erin Lindsey
Filed by: Austen Crowder
August 3, 2009 10:00 AM
http://indiana.bilerico.com/2009/08/transgender_comics_interview_with_erin_l.phpI know I covered Venus Envy on this column before, but I wanted to let everyone know that the comic is about to start updating again. It just so happens that I recently interviewed the comic's creator, Erin Lindsey, about the webcomic. Coincidence? Well, yes, but it is mighty convenient in any case.
How did Venus Envy come about?
Venus Envy was a happy accident. I'd been thinking about starting a web comic off and on, but could never get anything to stick in my head. At the same time, I belonged a trans support mailing list called Antijen (
http://www.antijen.org/). Someone on the list posted a few of Matt Nishi's cartoons about the funny side of being trans, and I loved them, but they were mostly from the FtM perspective. So I drew a few cartoons poking fun at the MtF transition. Those evolved into the very first VE strips.
