Contributor (Comic Books)
Yes, Virginia, you can grow up to be an otaku.
It’s good to start early, however. Lyda Morehouse started devouring her uncle’s Marvel and DC comic collection in her cousin’s basement pretty much as soon as she was able to read. In fact, Lyda often credits comic books with being one of the few things she could consume as quickly as her nondyslexic friends (and with turning her gay, but that’s another story). She watched her first anime on a black-and-white TV in 1979—Starblazers and Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, known in the US as Battle of the Planets. Though it took her until 2011 to discover manga, Lyda managed to see anime movies like The Castle of Cagliostro and Ghost in the Shell in the 1990s thanks to the Uptown Theatre’s midnight showings.
After a brief stint as a science-fiction author, Lyda returned to fandom and fell in hard. Beyond the dozen-odd books she has had published by Penguin, writing both under her own name and as Tate Hallaway, Lyda has written over one million words of Bleach fanfic on Archive of Our Own.
Websites
LydaMorehouse.com
Archive of Our Own
DeviantART
Dreamwidth
MangaKast
Tate Halloway’s Blog
The Wyrdsmiths
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Articles by Lyda
- Get Ready for the Black Panther Movie with Black Panther: A Nation under Our Feet Feb 12, 2018
- Subversive and Godly? As the Crow Flies Proves You Can Be Both Dec 25, 2017
- It’s Afrofuturism for the Win in Nnedi Okorafor’s Black Panther Dec 22, 2017
- “Ha-Ha, I Made You Say Cock!” and Other Things That Try to Be Funny in Allen, Son of Hellcock Nov 14, 2017
- Wonderful Women, Not Wonder Woman, Make Professor Marston Stand Out Oct 12, 2017
- The Stone Man Mysteries Have Gargoyles, Scots, and Demons, Oh My! Sep 16, 2017
- The Wendy Project Offers an Inventively Modern Take on Peter Pan Aug 1, 2017
- Infinite Seven Is What Happens When Cleverness Goes Bad Jun 20, 2017
- Creepy Art Busts through Horror Clichés in The Circle Jun 13, 2017