Tee Franklin debuted her talent to the comic world with a four-page horror backup strip called "The Outfit," in Joshua Williamson's Nailbiter #27 illustrated by Juan Ferreyra. Now, she is spicing up canonical work for DC Comics with lesbian love stories featuring Harley Quinn and soon writing creating a new biracial character for Archie Comics. This is just one of the many things making fans relish Franklin's launch into the comic cosmos. Tee Franklin resists being personally or creatively pigeonholed. She is a self-proclaimed "rabble-rouser", known to introduce herself as a "Black, queer, disabled, autistic" comic book writer. Tee Franklin is hellbent on changing this. "Diversity doesn't sell" is a common adage. Bingo Love, originally funded by Kickstarter, is now on its third printing after being picked up by Image Comics.ĭisenfranchised people who happen to be fans of sequential art grow up without seeing themselves in comics. The story is a delightful and down-to-earth celebration of both youthful love and romance at an older age. This gave her an idea - she wanted to contribute to comics in a way no one else had, so she imagined these women as queer senior citizens and wrote Bingo Love(2018). She was inspired when she saw "two beautiful Black women" in a commercial. Tee Franklin is a cutting edge creator of comics.
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