Meags Fitzgerald
Meags Fitzgerald | |
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| File:Meags Fitzgerald - SILQ2018.jpg Meags Fitzgerald in 2018 | |
| Born | Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
| Other names | HercuSleaze |
| Website | www.meagsfitzgerald.com |
Meags Fitzgerald is a Canadian drag king,[1] illustrator and cartoonist.[2]
Career
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]- Photobooth: A Biography (2014)
- Long Red Hair (2015)
References
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External links
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- HercuSleaze on Instagram
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- Living people
- Doug Wright Award winners
- Canadian graphic novelists
- Canadian LGBTQ novelists
- LGBTQ comics creators
- Canadian women artists
- Canadian queer artists
- Canadian queer writers
- Canadian queer women
- Canadian female comics artists
- Canadian female comics writers
- Canadian music video directors
- Canadian drag kings
- Canadian illustrators
- Canadian women illustrators
- 21st-century Canadian LGBTQ people
- 21st-century Canadian artists
- 21st-century Canadian writers
- Drag performers from Edmonton
- Writers from Edmonton
- Artists from Edmonton
- Call Me Mother contestants
- Novelists from Alberta
- Canadian artist stubs
- Cartoonist stubs