Kids Comics Pitchfest 2025 Showcase

All's Fair in Love & Werewolves

A story of identity and transformation told through a queer lens, perfect for fans of Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Lisa Sterle’s SQUAD and M.E. Girard’s GIRL MANS UP.
Butch lesbian Tor is a werewolf and has been for most of her 16 years. She gets by skateboarding and watching b-movies with her friends, but its getting more and more tiring hiding her lycanthropy.
When a pack of teenage werewolves come to town, Tor's suddenly not alone anymore. Quickly swept up into the Pack's hivemind, Tor is convinced to swap her butch identity out for the Pack's idea of womanhood as a way to control her inner wolf.
As she's pulled further into the Pack and away from her friends and sister, she must fight for her identity or end up just another clone.

My Why:

The werewolf transforms into something big and hairy, something aggressive and violent, something without humanity. And butch lesbians are often stereotyped as such. I spent my little butch lesbian childhood with no queer elders to guide me as I navigated rigidly gendered boxes. Now, as I watch our society try to impossibly narrow the idea of womanhood, I write this story to show that womanhood looks an infinite number of ways and that trying to enforce our idea of gender onto others hurts us all. This one is for trans and gender-nonconforming girls, our solidarity, and how we overcome the horror and doubt others impose on us.