If This Be Sin Mariner Books Little is spared her lively

Little is spared her lively pen and waggish

As a cartoonist

For Zoe Rashida

romantic tragedy

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

If This Be Sin Mariner Books Little is spared her livelyBy 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