If This Be Sin Mariner Books I used to believe that

I used to believe that by being a bonafide alternative black girl meant that I was denying an essential part of who I am — my blackness

Little is spared her lively pen and waggish

Goblet’s mixed-media pages feel wet

– Globe and Mail

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If This Be Sin Mariner Books I used to believe thatBy Hazel Newlevant. Self published. Softcover, 44 pages, Colour, 2013. Winner of the 2013 Prism Comics Queer Press Grant! 'If This Be Sin' is a collection of comics about queer women expressing themselves through music. It tells the stories of Gladys Bentley, the Harlem Renaissance blues singer and drag king, and Wendy and Lisa, the lesbian rockstars of Prince and the Revolution. "Hazel Newlevant draws like a dream and weaves a mesmerizing story. 'If