![]() ![]() “I’m a first-generation Nigerian woman who is from Texas, which is not what you think of when you think about hockey,” she says. “I was like, OK, I’m going to try to make some very serious art-push out my tendency to do comedy-and it came rushing back in,” she says.ĭespite her abiding enthusiasm, the sport seems like an unexpected subject for Ukazu. The comic evolved from a screenplay Ukazu wrote her senior year of college, which was also about a gay hockey player but from a darker perspective: The characters got addicted to pain killers and grappled with self-hatred instead of baking pies and calling each other silly nicknames. Check, Please!: Book 1: #Hockeyis the story of Bitty, a gay kid from Georgia who is beginning his first year on Samwell University’shockey team. However, her own comic is about something totally different: hockey. It turns out her top three series are Star Trek, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Patrick O’Brian’s Master and Commander books. ![]() ![]() When you ask Ngozi Ukazu about her favorite fandoms, she says it depends: “How much time do you have?” she responds. ![]()
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