Meags Fitzgerald
Meags Fitzgerald in 2018
Born
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Other namesHercuSleaze
Websitewww.meagsfitzgerald.com

Meags Fitzgerald is a Canadian drag king,[1] illustrator and cartoonist.[2]

Career

Fitzgerald earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary in 2009 and a certificate in design from NSCAD University in Halifax in 2012. She worked mainly as an illustrator, graphic novelist and comedic improviser [3] before becoming a drag king.

Fitzgerald published Photobooth: A Biography in 2014, a non-fiction graphic novel detailing her interest in chemical photobooths.[3] The book won the 2015 Doug Wright Spotlight Award.[4] She followed it in 2015 with the autobiographical graphic novel Long Red Hair. [5]

In 2019, she was nominated for the Prism Prize Award for directing a music video for Rich Aucoin's song The Middle.[6]

Fitzgerald's drag king pseudonym is HercuSleaze (pronouns he/him). He was a contestant on the first season of the reality TV competition Call Me Mother.[7] In 2022 HercuSleaze performed at Fierté Montréal's Superstars show to a crowd of 30,000 people, making him one of the first drag kings to perform to an audience of this size.[8]

Fitzgerald identifies as queer.[2]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ Nolfi, Joey (2021-10-05). "'Call Me Mother casts queens, kings, and nonbinary stars in wild new drag competition'". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 2022-09-26. Retrieved 2022-09-26.
  2. ^ a b Rude, Mey Valdivia (2015-10-13). "Drawn to Comics: Meags Fitzgerald Explores Bisexuality, Celibacy and Make Believe in "Long Red Hair"". Autostraddle. Retrieved 2016-07-12.
  3. ^ a b Nemetz, Andrea (2014-08-13). "Tribute to vanishing instant-photobooths". The Chronicle Herald. Retrieved 2016-07-07.
  4. ^ Balser, Erin (2015-05-10). "Graphic novels win big at Doug Wright Awards". CBC. Retrieved 2016-07-07.
  5. ^ Collins, Sean (2015-10-16). "Review: New comics by Meags Fitzgerald, Bill Griffith and Adrian Tomine". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2016-07-07.
  6. ^ Thorne, Tara (2019-02-21). "Rich Aucoin and Classified nominated for Prism Prize". The Coast. Archived from the original on 2021-05-13. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
  7. ^ Griwkowsky, Fish (2021-10-20). "'OUTtv's Call Me Mother stars local drag queen Felicia Bonée'". Edmonton Journal. Archived from the original on 2022-01-26. Retrieved 2022-03-06.
  8. ^ QMI, Agence (2022-07-19). "Fierté Montréal: Rita Baga à l'animation de "Drag Superstars"". Le Journal de Quebec. Archived from the original on 2022-07-22. Retrieved 2022-07-22.

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