MORE ABOUT TANEKA
AWARDS
2019
Lambda Literary Award Best Anthology Nominee: Beyond II: The Queer Post Apocalyptic and Urban Fantasy Comic Anthology, Edited by Taneka Stotts.
2018
Will Eisner Industry Award Best Anthology Winner: ELEMENTS: Fire – A Comic Anthology By Creators of Color!, Edited by Taneka Stotts
Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver Medalist Winner Graphic Novel/Drawn Book – General: ELEMENTS: Fire – A Comic Anthology by Creators of Color!, Edited by Taneka Stotts
Dink Denver Small Press Nominee: ELEMENTS: Fire – A Comic Anthology by Creators of Color!, Edited by Taneka Stotts
Dink Denver Diversity Nominee: ELEMENTS: Fire – A Comic Anthology by Creators of Color!, Edited by Taneka Stotts
2017
Ignatz Winner: Outstanding Anthology for ELEMENTS: Fire A Comic Anthology by Creators of Color!, Edited by Taneka Stotts
Will Eisner Industry Award Nominee: Best Webcomic for Déjà Brew, Written and Created by Taneka Stotts
2016
bda Literary Winner: LGBT Anthology – Fiction for Beyond: The Queer Sci-Fi & Fantasy Comic Anthology
Ignatz Nominee: Outstanding Anthology or Collection for Beyond: The Queer Sci-Fi & Fantasy Comic Anthology
James Triptree Jr. Honors List: Beyond: The Queer Sci-Fi & Fantasy Comic Anthology
APPEARANCES
2019
USC – Women in Comics & Animation Panel
| April 4th
2018
Comics Art LA – Tabling & Speaking
| December 8th – 9th
11th annual Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival – Tabling & Speaking
| November 3rd
Black Women Animate Boot Camp – Master Class Teacher @ TBA
| October 20th
Experiencing Comics Launch Party @ Cellar Door Books
| September 30th
SPX – Tabling at I1A & Speaking
| September 15th – 16th
XOXO – Speaker
| September 6th – 9th
San Diego Comic Con – Eisners & Paneling
| July 20th – 22nd
Emerald City Comic Con – Tabling at P-14
| March 1st – 4th
Hillsboro Library Comic Fest – Tabling
| February 24th – 25th
2017
Comics Arts LA – Exhibiting
| December 9th – 10th
Rose City Comic Con – Guest & Tabling
| September 8th – 10th
San Diego Comic Con – Eisner Nominee
| July 20th – 23rd
WWU Queer Con – Guest & Tabling
| April 29th
Queers & Comics – Panelist & Attendee
| April 14th & 15th
Emerald City Comic Con – Exhibiting
| March 2nd – 5th
SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN – Special Guest Comics Arts Forum
| Feb 2nd – 4th
NEWS
2020
06/29/20 – Sharing Stories – [TIME for Kids]
06/04/20 – 15 Black Comics Writers Whose Work You Need to Read – [CBR]
04/16/20 – Weekend Webcomics: Casual Hex, Ghost Lights & It Stems From Love Will Charm – [CBR]
02/17/20 – 13 NONBINARY WRITERS AND COMIC CREATORS CHANGING SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY – [SYFY Wire]
2019
12/21/19 – Read Taneka Stotts’ Reflections on Challenging the Status Quo of Comics [Colorlines]
09/16/19 – Meet Taneka Stotts of Ascend Comics in Burbank [VoyageLA]
09/06/19 – PW Star Watch 2019 Honorees [Publishers Weekly]
08/09/19 – Crowdfunding Comics Round-Up: ELEMENTS: Earth, YOU DIED, & 3 other campaigns we love [ComicsBeat]
08/05/19 – ELEMENTS: Earth – A Comic Anthology By Creators of Color Launched [Kickstarter]
Summer – Frame X Frame Taneka Stotts Gets Fired Up [KEYFRAME The Animation Guild Quarterly]
07/30/19 – Star Watch 2019 Honorees Named [Publishers Weekly]
06/04/19 – Interview: The Comics and Confidence of Taneka Stotts [The MNT]
03/15/19 – INDIE COMICS SPOTLIGHT: TANEKA STOTTS IS UNAPOLOGETICALLY DEDICATED TO MARGINALIZED CREATORS [SYFY Wire]
03/07/19 – Announcing the 2019 Lambda Literary Awards Nominations [THEM]
2018
12/21/18 – ‘We Are Here’: Questions For Comics Creator Taneka Stotts [NPR]
09/07/18 – Reviews ELEMENTS: Fire [The Comics Journal]
07/21/18 – ‘Monsters,’ and ‘Monstress,’ Win Big at 2018 Eisner Awards [Publishers Weekly]
07/21/18 – Eisner Awards: The Complete Winners List [The Hollywood Reporter]
07/17/18 – Talking Diversity with Comic Creator Taneka Stotts [PRIDE]
04/26/18 – 2018 Eisner Awards Nominations [Comic-Con International]
04/11/18 – 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards General Results [Independent Publisher]
04/06/18 – DINK 2018 Nominees [Dink Denver]
02/13/18 – “Feedback Is Not Important to Me”: An Interview with Taneka Stotts [The Comics Journal]
02/13/18 – Announcing the nominees for the 2018 Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity [Comics Beat]
02/03/18 – Celebrating Black Creators Day 2: Taneka Stotts [Panel Patter]
2017
11/4/17 – Taneka Stotts On Throwing Fire And Investing In Herself [OPB State of Wonder]
10/11/17 – BEHIND THE INK: TANEKA STOTTS AND GENUÉ REVUELTA [Nerds of Prey]
09/22/17 – Wow! Webcomics! Review: Love Circuits by Taneka Stotts and Genué Revuelta [POMEmag]
09/18/17 – Emil Ferris’s graphic novel ‘Monsters’ tops diverse slate of 2017 Ignatz Award winners [Washington Post]
08/31/18 – E34: QUEERING AND MELANATING THE COMIC WORLD (W/ TANEKA STOTTS) [Racist Sandwich]
08/17/17 – SPX Ignatz Award nominees: Books tackling bigotry top ‘the Spirit Awards of comics’ [Washington Post]
08/07/2017 – The Comic Book Industry Officially Has No Excuse Not To Hire Women [HUFFPOST]
07/31/2017 – We Have Voices, Too: Milkshakes with Taneka Stotts [Women Write About Comics]
06/22/2017 – PASSION FRUIT: A QUEEROTICA ANTHOLOGY [BOOK RIOT]
06/14/2017 – W3 THR33 by Genué Revuelta and Taneka Stotts [The Portland Mercury]
06/01/2017 – Monster & Stotts Go Beyond Once More with New Queer Comics Anthology [CBR]
05/13/2017 – Review of Elements: Fire Anthology [TheBlerdGirl]
05/02/2017 – THE 2017 EISNER AWARD NOMINEES [icv2]
04/07/2017 – Two new superb indie offerings highlight the power of—and need for—marginalized voices in comics [A.V. CLUB]
04/07/2017 – With Afar, Image Comics makes a major play for the YA graphic novel market [A.V. CLUB]
2016
12/29/2016 – Black Comics Creators Fund Diversity on Kickstarter [Publishers Weekly]
08/18/2016 – Small Press Expo: Clowes, Tomine and Walden among leading 2016 SPX Ignatz Award nominees [Washington Post]
08/08/2016 – Taneka Stotts’ ‘Elements’ is a comic anthology by creators of color [Blavity]
07/26/2016 – Taneka Stotts & Sara DuVall Conjure Reflections on Race, Queerness and Coffee Shop Magic in Deja Brew [PASTE Magazine]
07/10/2016 – BGN #81 | Elements, Bad Dad Rehab and Cell! [Black Girl Nerds]
07/02/2016 – The ELEMENTS: Fire Anthology is LIVE on Kickstarter! [Black Girl Nerds]
07/01/2016 – Editor Taneka Stotts Brings the Fire to ‘Elements’ [Comics Alliance]
03/04/2016 – Weekender: Small Press Day, Ron Wimberley and ‘Full Circle’ [Comics Alliance]
2015
10/06/2015 – Drawn to Comics: ‘Beyond’ Anthology is Packed Full of Terrific Queer Sci-Fi and Fantasy [AutoStraddle]
07/15/2015 – Comics Alliance: The Harpy Agenda Amplifies Diverse Intersectional Voices in Comics [Comics Alliance]
04/27/2015 – Comics Alliance: Queerness Without Question: Sfe Monster Brings the ‘Beyond’ Anthology to Kickstarter [Back Pages] [Comics Alliance]
04/02/2015 – Comics Alliance: Help Bring This Queer Science Fiction Comics Anthology To Life [io9].
03/25/2015 – Comics Alliance: Your Brief And Wondrous Guide To Contemporary Queer Comics [HUFFPOST].