Work Description
QUEERING GODZILLA is a risograph fan publication, glowing with radioactivity via rainbow images from LGBTQ* Godzilla fans. The book exists as a love letter to fandom, fanart and fanfiction. To deviantart, reddit, tumblr and internet culture. It is a visual essay on queer twitter, to teenagers reading into absolutely everything, twisting fact and fiction to fit their own hybrid narrative. A love letter to the icons who came before us; to mothman, to the babadook. Listicles of Top Ten Queer Icons in Mythology. This book is a visual essay on not seeing your queerness within pop divas and drag race. On seeing it within rage. It is a visual essay on reclaiming ‘monster’.This book is love letter to finding representation in the strangest of places. Commissioned by Castlefield Gallery for Manchester Contemporary, 2019. 4 colour risograph, 56 pages, edition of 35.
Queering Godzilla
— a book about fandom, queer culture, monsters and more!
by George Gibson
| Publisher | self-published |
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| Release Place | Manchester, United Kingdom |
| Edition | 2nd revised edition |
| Release Date | 2019 |
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| Printrun | 35 |
| Original Price | 15.00 £ |
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| Subform | Artists' Book |
| Topics | Godzilla, Queer Culture |
| Themes | fandom, fan culture, queerness, film |
| Methods | Japanese Stab Binding, Risograph |
| Language | English |
| Labeling | QUEERING GODZILLA A BOOK ABOUT FANDOM, QUEER CULTURE, MONSTERS AND MORE! |
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| Pages | 58 |
| Technique | Risograph |
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