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Izzy Rousseau
SUPERFREAK
Izzy Rousseau is a comic artist whose work is magical, macabre, zany, humorous, and occasionally uncomfortably sexy. Her comics feature neurodivergent women as main characters. It is her goal to create comics that break stigmas surrounding the stereotypes of how society perceives people like her. Izzy has been published in the award-winning all-girl comic anthology series, Dirty Diamonds and ran a successful Kickstarter campaign for her comic book, Metanoia. She hopes her newest comic Superfreak is also a hit!
Superfreak follows the plight of two teenage girls growing up in a not-so-distant future where superpowers are illegal (unless you have the money to be a villain). They discover that their crass, cruel, functioning alcoholic history teacher Mr. L is an unwanted vigilante whose mastery of his superpowers is piss-poor at best. They use the knowledge of his secret identity to blackmail him into taking them with him on all his misadventures. Along the way, the trust between the unexpected trio grows. Harper and Gia discover who they want to be in a world where injustice exists around every corner, while Mr. L learns how to be a better teacher and what it really means to be a superhero. Superfreak satirizes superhero tropes while addressing modern day issues including government and police corruption, classism, wealth hoarding, patriarchy, religious extremism, and discrimination.
Digital drawing, 8 ½ × 12 in.
Digital drawing, 8½ × 12 in.
Digital drawing, 8 ½ × 12 in.
Digital drawing, 7 ¾ × 11 in.
Digital drawing, 8 ¼ × 11 ¾ in.