![]() ![]() One of the pleasures was in exploring the stylistic permutations and exciting pathways that her comics have taken over time. ![]() One of the challenges of conducting a Skype interview with Bishakh about her latest work was in translating the shared, familiar shorthand we have adopted through our long friendship and collaboration in poetry-comics. In this conversation, Bishakh and I talk “Desi,” a term referring to homeland for diasporic South Asians, akin to the Italian paisano. Spellbound, a graphic memoir, is forthcoming later in 2020 from Street Noise Books. ![]() She is the co-author and illustrator of The Prefab Bathroom: An Architectural History (2014), and received the Xeric grant for her comic collection Angel (2003). Bishakh Som’s debut graphic story collection, Apsara Engine, forthcoming from Feminist Press tomorrow, conjures up shape-shifting global cities, erupting with queer intimacies and witty banter in eight eerie and tender stories.īishakh Som’s comics have appeared in the New Yorker, Boston Review, We’re Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology, Beyond II The Queer Post-Apocalyptic & Urban Fantasy Comic Anthology, and The Other Side: An Anthology of Queer Paranormal Romance, among other publications. ![]()
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