While some strides have been made, queerness is still often coded or hinted at, carrying echoes of the Victorian euphemism “the love that dares not speak its name.”
To foster awareness, appreciation, and discussion of queer sequential art and its creators
To become an educational resource of queer experiences, storytelling, and critical theory
All in Out of the Blue
While some strides have been made, queerness is still often coded or hinted at, carrying echoes of the Victorian euphemism “the love that dares not speak its name.”
Out of the Blue features various motifs: water, music, the senses, but the one featured in chapter 5 sheds the most light on the main characters — pun very much intended — and signals a significant turning point in their dynamic.
To get the discussion going, there’s another sub-query that should be explored first: is isolation a matter of choice or circumstance?