Emerald City Comic Con Spotlight: Taneka Stotts

As the weekend progressed, and I had more time to survey artist alley, I found myself at James Wright’s table. He’s the writer of Nutmeg at Action Lab Entertainment. I was so impressed by everything at his table so I basically bought it all. That’s where I got the Elements: Fire anthology. I was impressed by the design and the smell of the book. Yes, I may not judge a book by its cover, by I damn well judge it by its smell. Couple that with the fact that this was a book edited by a woman of color featuring creative teams of color, meant that you could color me intrigued. HA! James then suggested that I should go speak with Taneka Stotts, the editor of the book. So I went over the next day after reading through the book a little bit. This was Saturday, the busiest day of the con by far. It was nuts, fam. We walked from her table into an apocalypse of people, looking for a sliver of space to conduct this interview. We found a nice little corner close to the soundstage where people were setting up to perform sets of music. Also, I’m just now realizing that I asked the same first question to everyone that I interviewed. Ooooops. Morgan: Give a little background for anyone who may not know who you are. Taneka: I am the publisher, writer, creator and editor of Beyond: The Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy Comic Anthology, Elements: Fire — a Comics Anthology by Creators of Color, and Beyond: The Queer Post-Apocalyptic & Urban Fantasy Comic Edition. I hail from Portland, Oregon. …