Resources
Make Mine Mythology!
Bibliography (Actually used in the panel)
COMICS
Action Comics #1 (1938); DC Comics
Alpha Flight #106 (March 1992) – Northstar comes out; Marvel Comics
Astonishing Iceman #1 (2023)
Avengers #1 (1963); Marvel Comics
Batman: Urban Legends #6 (2021) – Tim Drake comes out as bisexual; DC Comics
Detective Comics #1 (1939); DC Comics
Daredevil #25 (2020) – Elektra becomes Daredevil; Marvel Comics
Empyre #4 (2020) – Wiccan and Hulking get married; Marvel Comics
Green Lantern Vol. 3 #54 (1994) – Fridging of Alexandra DeWitt; DC Comics
Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy #3 (2021); DC Comics
Hercules: Fall of an Avenger (2010) – Hercules confirmed bisexual; Marvel Comics
Knights of X #4 (2022) – Rachel confirmed lesbian/bisexual; Marvel Comics
Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant #1 (2023) – Kamala in blanket burrito; Marvel Comics
Nubia and the Amazons #1 (2021); DC Comics
Old Guard, The #3 (2017); Image Comics
Sandman, The (1988-1996); DC Comics/Vertigo Comics/DC Vertigo
Sensation Comics #48 (August 2015) – Wonder Woman officiates a same-sex marriage; DC Comics
Superman: Son of Kal-El #5 (2021) – Jonathan Kent comes out; DC Comics
Uncanny X-Men #306 (1993) – Candy Southern’s return & death; Marvel Comics
Uncanny X-Men #600 (2013) – Bobby Drake/Iceman comes out; Marvel Comics
Wonder Woman #1 (1942); DC Comics
X-Men #1 (1963); Marvel Comics
X-Men 2 nd Series #31-32 (1994) – Nicieza accidental retcon of Kwannon/Betsy Braddock; Marvel Comics
X-Men #6 (2021) – Mystique wants her wife back
X-Men #21 (2021) – Hellfire Gala, Wolverine (Laura Kinney) named to X-Men
TV/FILM
Batman: The Animated Series (1992-1995)
Batman & Robin (1997)
Catwoman (2004)
Clash of the Titans (1981)
FANT4STIC/Fantastic Four (2015)
Hercules (1997)
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
The New Mutants (2020)
The Old Guard (2020)
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
300 (2006)
Troy (2004)
Wonder Woman (1975-1979)
ART
Böcklin, Arnold – Odysseus & Polyphemus, 1896
Hernández Amores, Germán – Medea on her golden chariot
Köckert, Julius – Painting of Harun al-Rashid receiving Charlemagne delegation at his Baghdad court, 1864
Mattei – Athena, 2nd century
Nguyen, Marie-Lan – public domain photo of Achilles (in a burrito) Athenian red-figure volute krater Loucre G482
Waterhouse, John William – Wright Barker Circe, 1900
Webb, Harrison/Fiendish Thingy Art – Loki
BOOKS/ARTICLES
Alexander, Caroline (trans.)/Homer – The Iliad; Ecco 2016
Bartsch, Shadi (trans.)/Virgil – The Aeneid; Modern Library 2021
Carson, Anne (trans.)/Aeschylus, Sophocles & Euripides – An Oresteia; Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009
Casati, Costanza – Clytemnestra; Sourcebooks Landmarks 2023
Chokshi, Roshani – A Crown of Wishes; St. Martin’s Griffin 2017
Chokshi, Roshani – The Star-Touched Queen; St. Martin’s Griffin 2016
Gornichec, Genevieve – The Witch’s Heart; Ace 2021
Guest, Lady Charlotte (trans.) – The Mabinogion; Blurb 2022 (orig. 1902)
Hamilton, Edith – Mythology; Mentor/New American Library 1969
Headley, Maria Dahvana (trans.) – Beowulf: A New Translation; FSG 2020
Helle, Sophus (trans.) – Gilgamesh: A New Translation of the Ancient Epic; Yale University Press 2022
Karoglou, Kiki – Dangerous Beauty: Medusa in Classical Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v.75, no. 3 (Winter 2018) (free pdf download)
Marozzi, Justin – Islamic Empires, The Cities That Shaped Civilization: From Mecca to Dubai; Pegasus Books 2020
Menon, Ramesh – The Ramayana: A Modern Retelling of the Great Indian Epic; North Point Press 2004
Miller, Madeline – Song of Achilles; Ecco 2012
Patel, Vaishnavi – Kaikeyi; Redhook 2022
Sebastian, Laura – Half-Sick of Shadows; Ace 2021
Wilson, Emily (trans.)/Homer – The Odyssey; W.W. Norton & Company 2017
Recommended for further consumption:
COMICS/GRAPHIC NOVELS –
(Pretty much all of these are written by queer writers and/or have queer representation.)
Excalibur (2019-2021) by Tini Howard; Marvel Comics
Ghost-Spider (2019-2020) by Seanan McGuire; Marvel Comics
Guardians of the Galaxy (2020-2021) by Al Ewing; Marvel Comics
Immortal X-Men (2022 – ) by Kieron Gillen; Marvel Comics
Midnighter & Apollo (2016-2017) by Steve Orlando; DC Comics
Ms. Marvel (2021) by Samira Ahmed & G. Willow Wilson; Marvel Comics
New Mutants (2019 – ) by Vita Ayala; Marvel Comics
New Mutants (2019 – ) by Charlie Jane Anders; Marvel Comics
New X-Men (2001-2004) by Grant Morrison; Marvel Comics
Poison Ivy (2022 – ) by G. Willow Wilson; DC Comics
Wonder Woman Earth One (2016-2021) by Grant Morrison; DC Comics
Wonder Woman Historia (2021 – ) by Kelly Sue DeConnick; DC Comics
X-Factor (2020-2021) by Leah Williams; Marvel Comics
X-Terminators (2023) by Leah Williams; Marvel Comics
BOOKS
Carson, Anne – literally anything she has ever translated or written
Harrison, Jane Ellen – Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion; Princeton University Press 1991
Haynes, Natalie – Pandora’s Jar: Women in the Greek Myths; Harper Perennial 2022
McCarter, Stephanie (trans.)/Ovid – Metamorphoses; Penguin Books 2022
Miller, Madeline – Circe; Little. Brown and Company 2018
Saint, Jennifer – Ariadne; Flatiron Books 2021
Talabi, Wolf – Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon; DAW Books 2023
Valente, Catherynne M. – The Refrigerator Monologues; Gallery/Saga Press 2017
Wilson, Emily (trans.)/Homer – The Iliad; W.W. Norton & Company 2023 (out 09/26/23)
OTHER MEDIA
Cerebro podcast – Connor Goldsmith (www.connorgoldsmith.com/cerebro)
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men – Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby podcast – Liv Albert
Graymalkin Lane – Chad Anderson (who is here at FanX!)
Women Write About Comics (www.womenwriteaboutcomics.com) – 3-time (in a row!) Eisner-
award winning site. They have a Patreon, please support them!
Always Here – LGBTQIA Characters in Comics & Mythology
Bibliography (Actually used in the panel)
COMICS
Action Comics #1 (1938); DC Comics
All-New X-Men #40 (2015) – Teen Jean Grey tells teenage Iceman he’s gay; Marvel Comics
Alpha Flight #106 (March 1992) – Northstar comes out; Marvel Comics
Avengers #1 (1963); Marvel Comics
Batman: Urban Legends #6 (2021) – Tim Drake comes out as bisexual; DC Comics
DC Pride 2022 – Connor Hawke comes out; DC Comics
Detective Comics #1 (1939); DC Comics
Empyre #4 (2020) – Wiccan and Hulking get married; Marvel Comics
Excalibur #21 (2021) – Shatterstar and Rictor reunite; Marvel Comcis
Hercules: Fall of an Avenger (2010) – Hercules confirmed bisexual; Marvel Comics
Knights of X #4 (2022) – Rachel confirmed lesbian/bisexual; Marvel Comics
Nubia and the Amazons #1 (2021); DC Comics
The Old Guard #3 (2017); Image Comics
The Sandman (1989-1996) by Neil Gaiman; DC Vertigo/DC Comics
Sensation Comics #48 (August 2015) – Wonder Woman officiates a same-sex marriage; DC Comics
Superman: Son of Kal-El #5 (2021) – Jonathan Kent comes out; DC Comics
Uncanny X-Men #600 (2015) – Bobby Drake/Iceman comes out; Marvel Comics
Wicked + Divine #1 (2014); Image Comics
Wolverine #6 (2003) – THAT COVER
Wonder Woman #1 (1942); DC Comics
X-Men #1 (1963); Marvel Comics
X-Men #6 (2021) – Mystique wants her wife back; Marvel Comics
X-Men #241 (1989) – Inferno/Maddie Pryor cover; Marvel Comics
X-Men: Fall of the House of X #1 (2024); Marvel Comics
BOOKS
Alexander, Caroline (trans.)/Homer – The Iliad; Ecco 2016
Carson, Anne (trans.)/Aeschylus, Sophocles & Euripides – An Oresteia; Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009
Hamilton, Edith – Mythology; Mentor/New American Library 1969
Headley, Maria Dahvana (trans.) – Beowulf: A New Translation; FSG 2020
Helle, Sophus (trans.) – Gilgamesh: A New Translation of the Ancient Epic; Yale University Press 2022
Lockard, Greg & Tim Fish and Hector Barros – Liebestrasse; Dark Horse Books 2022
Lucian – Selected Dialogues (includes Erotes/Amores); Oxford University Press, 2009
McCarter, Stephanie (trans.)/Ovid – Metamorphoses; Penguin Books 2022
Melville, A.D. (trans.)/Ovid – Metamorphoses; World’s Classics 1987
Miller, Madeline – Song of Achilles; Ecco 2012
Rogerson, Phoenicia – Herc; Hanover Square Press 2023
Trujillo, Josh & Levi Hastings – Washington’s Gay General: The Legends and Loves of Baron
von Steuben; Harry N. Abrams/Abrams Books 2023
Walls, Jasmine & Teo – Brooms; Levine Querido 2023
Wilson, Emily (trans.)/Homer – The Iliad; W.W. Norton & Company 2023
Wilson, Emily (trans.)/Homer – The Odyssey; W.W. Norton & Company 2017
ART/OTHER MEDIA
Glykon, 216AD; reproduced from original by Lysippos 4 th BCE – Farnese Hercules
Handel, George Frederic – Oreste (opera), based on Giangualberto Barlocci’s Roman libretto
Mattei – Athena, 2 nd century
Smith, Valentine – Dating Polaris Is Gay (@valentinesm1th on the Bird app)
Webb, Harrison (A Fiendish Thingy Art) – Loki
Recommended for further consumption:
COMICS/GRAPHIC NOVELS
Excalibur (2019-2021) by Tini Howard; Marvel Comics
Ghost-Spider (2019-2020) by Seanan McGuire; Marvel Comics
Guardians of the Galaxy (2020-2021) by Al Ewing; Marvel Comics
Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy (2019 – ) by Jody Houser; DC Comics
Immortal X-Men (2022 – ) by Kieron Gillen; Marvel Comics
Knights of X (2022) by Tini Howard; Marvel Comics
Midnighter & Apollo (2016-2017) by Steve Orlando; DC Comics
New Mutants (2019 – ) by Vita Ayala; Marvel Comics
New Mutants (2019 – ) by Charlie Jane Anders; Marvel Comics
New X-Men (2001-2004) by Grant Morrison; Marvel Comics
Poison Ivy (2022 – ) by G. Willow Wilson; DC Comics
Wonder Woman Earth One (2016-2021) by Grant Morrison; DC Comics
Wonder Woman Historia (2021 – ) by Kelly Sue DeConnick; DC Comics
X-Factor (2020-2021) by Leah Williams; Marvel Comics
X-Terminators (2023) by Leah Williams; Marvel Comics
BOOKS
Bartsch, Shadi (trans.)/Virgil – The Aeneid; Modern Library 2021
Gornichec, Genevieve – The Witch’s Heart; Ace 2021
Haynes, Natalie – Diving Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth; Harper Perennial, 2024
Haynes, Natalie – Pandora’s Jar: Women in Greek Myths; Harper Perennial, 2020
Miller, Madeline – Circe; Little. Brown and Company 2018
Valente, Catherynne M. – The Refrigerator Monologues; Gallery/Saga Press 2017