Blue Delliquanti is an American graphic novelist and comics creator. They are known for the webcomic O Human Star and the graphic novels Meal, Across a Field of Starlight, and Adversary.
Career
Webcomics Delliquanti’s webcomic O Human Star was published from 2012 to 2020. It follows inventor Alastair Sterling, who is resurrected sixteen years after his death in a robotic body in a world where his technological advancements have resulted in humans and robots living side-by-side. Along with Brendan, who was his business partner and lover prior to his death, and Sulla, an android who was created with a copy of Sterling's mind but developed a distinct personality and who is a trans teenage girl, he attempts to adapt to his new life. It was nominated for both a Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Graphic Novel and Ignatz Award for Outstanding Online Comic, and won a Prism Award for Best Webcomic in 2018.
Graphic Novels In 2018, Delliquanti published Meal, a graphic novel about Yarrow, a young chef in California seeking to make entomophagy popular and must prove herself to the stern chef Chandra Flores, as well as confess her feelings for her neighbor Milani. It was co-written with food writer and chef Soleil Ho, of whom Delliquanti was a fan of prior to their collaboration.
In 2022, they published the young adult science fiction graphic novel Across a Field of Starlight, which follows two non-binary teens in an intergalactic war who fall in love. In the same year, they published the erotic graphic novella Adversary. Set in Minneapolis in 2021, it follows Curtis, a middle-aged self-defense teacher who has recently come out as gay, and his former student Anton, a trans man, who enter a sexual relationship together.
They illustrated the 2024 comic book series Ghostbusters: Back in Town by Greg Pak and David M. Booher and the 2018 graphic novel The 'Stan by Kevin Knodell and David Axe, which is about the war in Afghanistan. They have contributed to The Legend of Korra: Patterns in Time, Smut Peddler, The Sleep of Reason, and Beyond. In 2019, Miles & Honesty in SCFSX!, an erotic comic written by Delliquanti and Kazimir Lee about a queer sex party that starred two characters that previously appeared in Delliquanti's Smut Peddler stories, won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Romance & Erotica.
Personal life Delliquanti is non-binary. They live in Minneapolis.
Publications
Accolades YearTitleAwardResultReference2015O Human Star Ignatz Award for Outstanding Online ComicLambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Graphic Novel2018Prism Award for Best Webcomic2019MealPrism Award for Best Comic from a Small to MidsizeMiles & Honesty in SCFSX! (with Kamizir Lee)Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Romance & Erotica2022Across a Field of StarlightCybils Award for Graphic Novel2023AdversaryIgnatz Award for Outstanding Online Comic
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