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Hockey Hall-of-Famer Angela James is contributing a story to a comics anthology about LGBTQ+ people and their experiences in athletics.
The book is to be titled Come Out and Play: The Queer Sports Project, published by award-winning imprint Stacked Deck Press. James’s story, “Offside” is based on a true story: her cross-country road trip after being cut from the first Canadian Olympic women’s hockey team. The short story is cowritten by her son Michael James-Mcdonald and illustrated by cartoonist Diana Kresge. “Offside” draws on James’s formative struggles as an out lesbian, her historic career in sports, and her inspirational activism. She received the Order of Canada for her contributions to athletics, and now she is adding comics writing to her list of impressive accomplishments.
Come Out and Play: The Queer Sports Project is edited by Megan Praz and Megan Kemp-Gee, the creators of the ultimate frisbee graphic novel One More Year. This book features the work of over 30 all-LGBTQ+ comics creators, including Marvel and DC writer Josh Trujillo, pioneering trans cartoonist Sophie Labelle, and former NFL player RK Russell.
James is one of several notable figures from the world of sports who will be trying their hands at making comics for the first time specially for this anthology.
Come Out and Play: The Queer Sports Project will be the first ever comics anthology devoted to the theme of LGBTQ+ people in sports. It will be a full-color paperback graphic collection of over 200 pages. Praz and Kemp-Gee describe it as a “queer sports mixtape” and a “love letter” to “sports, expression, and motion.”
Praz and Kemp-Gee say they are “honoured” by the opportunity to work with James and Kresge, and feel a special responsibility.
“Angela is called ‘the Wayne Gretzky of women’s hockey,’ and she’s a major figure in Canadian sports, LGBTQ+ sports, and Black sports history, but she’s not a household name. We really want her to have the legacy and recognition she deserves as a player, coach, mother, role model, and now as a comics co-author as well!”
Angela James is the first and only Black woman to captain Canada’s National Women’s Hockey Team. Described as “the first superstar of modern women’s hockey,” she is a four-time World Hockey Champion, former co-owner and general manager of the PHF's Toronto Six, a recipient of the Order of Canada, and proud mother of three children. Her many accomplishments include induction into the Black Ice Hockey and Sports Hall of Fame, the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame, the Hockey Hall of Fame, and Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame.
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