Glamazonia: The Uncanny Super-Tranny

Glamazonia the Uncanny Super-Tranny is busting heads and breaking hearts! Watch as our heroine gains her powers from the bite of a radioactive drag queen, has a three-way with Fidel and Che, and tussles with that witch, Power Princess. Comics have never been so fabulous!

Created by Justin Hall, with art by Hall, Diego Gómez, and more than a dozen special guests. 136 pages. 7″x10″. Full-color.

Finalist for the 2010 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction!

Retailers! Download a Glamazonia Promotional Display that highlights the recent Lambda Literary Awards nomination and helps encourage customers to check out the book.

Distributed by:
Diamond Distributors (North America and United Kingdom, item #OCT101093)
Prerogatives/PrideCatalog.com
Last Gasp
Haven Distributors
Bulldog Books (Australia)

PREVIEWS:

Read a webcomic preview of the new Glamazonia book on Glamazonia.com!

You can also read a 30-page preview of the book right here on the site. The preview includes a look at the secret origin of Glamazonia; her romances with J.F.K., Fidel Castro and Che Guevara; Glamazonia Public Service Announcements with special guests Robert Kirby, Dave Davenport, MariNaomi, Paige Braddock and Steve MacIsaac; and a peek at the epic Glamazonia/Rent Boy adventure drawn by Diego Gómez!

INTERVIEWS:

Campus Progress interview with Justin Hall, Sean-Z, and Paige Braddock — Queer and feminist comics during the 1970s and 1980s were distributed through alternative, non-syndicated channels that comic book artist and queer comic historian Justin Hall, known for the ribald comic “Glamazonia: The Uncanny Super-Tranny,” calls a “queer media ghetto.”

Gay.com Interview with Justin Hall — Gay.com recently dished with Glamazonia creator/writer Justin Hall and got some dirty details on the transgender superheroine.

Northwest Press Interview on Comic Book Queers — Comic Book Queers’ EvilJeff takes over L.A. with the help of Zan Christensen of Northwest Press who brings his lackeys Justin Hall, creator of Glamazonia: the Uncanny Super-Tranny and Jon Macy, he of Teleny & Camille fame.

2008 Justin Hall interview on Panel Borders — On this episode of Panel Borders: Alex Fitch talks to 2008 Queer Press Grant winner Justin Hall about his comic Glamazonia, the Uncanny Super Tranny and his autobiographical travel writing.

REVIEWS:

Review on renderwrx by PD Houston — “This is possibly the best humor comic I’ve read in a long time and if you like fun, ridiculous comics with hard hitting humor then get this book. You will not be disappointed.”

Review on CBR’s “Comics Should Be Good” by Brian Cronin — “Perhaps the number one thing that makes Justin Hall’s Glamazonia work is the sheer sense of geniality that exudes from Hall’s work. This is the sort of comic that, in the hands of someone trying to do something cynical, it would just come off as just foul, wretched even. Luckily, Hall is completely committed to the concept of a ‘super-tranny,’ and he puts it out there without any sort of ill will or negative feelings—this is just intended as a fun, offbeat comic book about a goofy super-tranny named Glamazonia.”

Review on cxPulp by Andrea Speed — “There are many, many parodies of superhero origins in here, told through a Glamazonia filter, usually in service of a loose but superhero standard storyline. For example, we get the most origins in the story where Glamazonia and her would be sidekick, Rent Boy, get kidnapped by some mysterious alien force to go fight other superheroes on another world, and Glamazonia tells a different origin story to a different hero in the locker room between fights. They parody the best known superhero beginnings, that of Superman, Batman, and Spider-Man, but with obvious twists. Personally I like the Batman one best, but the Spider-Man one is a strong contender, if only because having someone bitten by a radioactive drag queen deserves some kind of award.”

Review on iFanboy by Ron Richards — “Telling comic tales within the gay culture that are both accessible and amusing is no easy feat, but Justin Hall sure does make it look easy. By poking fun at super hero comics and comics culture, as well as general society, you don’t need to be gay to appreciate Glamazonia, just know good comics.”

Review on Periwinkle Journal — “Creator Justin Hall gleefully sends up every tired super-hero convention out there from a genre full of fabulous alter egos in colorful spandex with tragic backstories. The book works best when Hall’s dense script is given more room to play out in the longer stories. He throws in so many quick jokes, off-handed references to pop-culture, gay history, comics and superheroes, that it’s tough to catch them all.”

Review on GayLeague.com by Joe Palmer — “Ah, Glamazonia! As glamorous as ever with her bouffant, lush lips, amazing abs, assertive breasts, a devil may care attitude backed up with her own brand of justice. Ignore the bit of self-centeredness and give the lady her due! Glamazonia’s journey from an occasional B & W strip when she first came to my attention to this four color extravaganza has been a long time coming and it’s about damn time!”