University of Arizona
College of Fine Arts - School of Art

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Katie Watson

Sapphic Scify Comics

Sapphic Scify Comics is a culmination of three years’ worth of research, deep dives into Queer archives, late-night ennui musings on what the ‘perfect’ Lesbian action movie would be, a headfirst dive into the world of queer art, and a lifetime of reading western comics. Sapphic Scify Comics started as a mad fanatic love of Science Fiction stories that then collided with my burgeoning fascination with the 1950s Erotic Pulp Lesbian movement. These two topics began to take on a new shape like a proton shot through the Hadron Collider. The comic that you are now holding grew from a fun poster series I started as a way to stay occupied during quarantine into an ever-increasing obsession with the ideas of what makes a story Queer?

Welcome to Labia Prime
Digital Print
24″x36″
2022

Space Battle
Digital Print
24″x36″
2022

Sea Dykes
Digital Print
24″x36″
2022

Ether Quest: Conflict of Coitus
Digital Print
24″x 36″
2022

The Mists of Solaris
Digital Print
24″x36″
2021

The Fall of Atlas
Digital Print
24″ x 36″
2020

MFA 2022