Hazel Newlevant is an American cartoonist and editor known for creating and editing comics about queer history, bisexuality, polyamory, and reproductive rights. [1][2][3] Raised in Portland, Oregon, Newlevant lives in Queens, New York. Liked by Hazel Newlevant My newest anthology (as a co-editor, contributor, and cover artist) is on The New York Times' "8 Comics to Read This Pride Month" list! BECOMING WHO Shared by Hazel.
Follow Hazel Newlevant and explore their bibliography from Amazon's Hazel Newlevant Author Page. Hazel Newlevant is a Portland-raised, Queens-residing cartoonist. Their comics include Tender-Hearted, Sugar Town, No Ivy League, and If This Be Sin.
They are the editor and publisher of the anthologies Chainmail Bikini and Comics For Choice. Their work has been honored with the Ignatz Award, Xeric Grant and the Prism Comics Queer Press Grant. The Beat catches up with NO IVY LEAGUE creator Hazel Newlevant about their graphic novel, recognizing privilege, and comics and creators who influence them.
Graphic novelist Hazel Newlevant's memoir of their time on a youth forestry crew addresses issues of race, class and gender with delicately shaded imagery that asks readers to slow down and think. Just before Small Press Expo, which took place two weeks ago, Hazel Newlevant sent me a copy of the first issue of her new comic, No Ivy League. It's a memoir of her first job as a teenager-I'll let you tell her more about it below-and she plans to publish it in three issues and [].
Hazel Newlevant is a Portland-raised, Brooklyn-based cartoonist. Their other comics include the graphic novellas If This Be Sin and Sugar Town, and the graphic novel No Ivy League. Hazel Newlevant has done a lot of autobiographical comics, but most of them are roughly contemporaneous with their life at that moment.
No Ivy League is their first full-length graphic memoir, and its focus is on an experience from a decade ago. The difference between being 17 and 27 is a wide gulf, especially for Newlevant, who has been quite open about their transmasculine transition. No Ivy.
Hazel Newlevant: Sammy found the interviewees, and although most of them and the artists are US-based, she tried to make it a diverse group in many respects-race and ethnicity of course, different gender identities, diverse interests and careers, different generations, people with supportive families and those with trans.