Meags Fitzgerald

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

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

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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]

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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. 1 2 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. 1 2 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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