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Meags Fitzgerald

Meags Fitzgerald is a Canadian drag king, illustrator and cartoonist.

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Meags Fitzgerald
Meags Fitzgerald in 2018
Born
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Other nameHercuSleaze
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

Bibliography

  • Photobooth: A Biography (2014)
  • Long Red Hair (2015)
References

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. 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. 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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