

Ron thinks his family has the hottest wing sauce in existence until his best friend shares some "mutant hot wings" from Deville Wings. Blaze and his mom both sport shocking red hair. The comic is rendered in black, gray and white ink with splashes of bright red throughout. Blaze, a hot sauce fanatic who swigs bottles of "A Blazin" hot sauce. Illustrated by M.Victoria Robado, Franklin's short tale stars Ron A. This book, edited by Taneka Stotts, collects comics created by people of color from around the world. Comparing this hair-raising work with her later lighthearted romances proves Franklin's boundless range.įranklin went on to write more short stories including "A Blazin" for the award-winning comic anthology, Elements: Fire (2016). Texting her husband an invitation from Becky's phone, she wears the sewn skin of the white woman and greets Ashton by saying "isn't this what you wanted Ashton? The both of us? I'm your perfect girl now". Using knowledge from her medical degree, she skins her victim and then wears her like an outfit. In this deliciously macabre and cathartic thriller, a Black woman, Mrs.Tremont, kills her husband Ashton's white lover Becky. What Franklin does in 4 pages for Nailbiter is a testament to her genius. Buckaroo is home to 16 of the United States' most prolific murderers dubbed the "Buckaroo Butchers." Nailbiter is an anthology of stories about Buckaroo, Oregon, a town where serial killers are overrepresented in the population. Tee Franklin debuted her talent to the comic world with a four-page horror backup strip called "The Outfit," in Joshua Williamson's Nailbiter #27 illustrated by Juan Ferreyra. Now, she is spicing up canonical work for DC Comics with lesbian love stories featuring Harley Quinn and soon writing creating a new biracial character for Archie Comics.

This is just one of the many things making fans relish Franklin's launch into the comic cosmos. Tee Franklin resists being personally or creatively pigeonholed.


She is a self-proclaimed "rabble-rouser", known to introduce herself as a "Black, queer, disabled, autistic" comic book writer. Tee Franklin is hellbent on changing this. "Diversity doesn't sell" is a common adage. Bingo Love, originally funded by Kickstarter, is now on its third printing after being picked up by Image Comics.ĭisenfranchised people who happen to be fans of sequential art grow up without seeing themselves in comics. The story is a delightful and down-to-earth celebration of both youthful love and romance at an older age. This gave her an idea - she wanted to contribute to comics in a way no one else had, so she imagined these women as queer senior citizens and wrote Bingo Love(2018). She was inspired when she saw "two beautiful Black women" in a commercial. Tee Franklin is a cutting edge creator of comics.
