Hothead Paisan

Hothead Paisan is an alternative comic written and drawn by Diane DiMassa. Subtitled "Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist", it features the eponymous title character wreaking violent vengeance on male oppressors. Recurring characters include Hothead's cat Chicken, friend Roz, a talking lamp, and transgender love interest Daphne.

The series began in 1991 and has run to at least 21 issues, which have been collected as a 428-page trade paperback, The Complete Hothead Paisan, the page-count of which include a 10-page introduction.

At one point in the 1990s, there was a Hothead Paisan-themed "chawklit" candy bar available in at least two flavors, sold in comic shops, gay-themed bookstores and coffee shops. It featured the Paisan herself on the wrapper.

References

• Frueh, Joanna and Laurie Fierstein. "Comments on the Comics, in Joanna Frueh, Laurie Fierstein, and Judith Stein (eds.), ed. (2000). Picturing the Modern Amazon. New York: Rizzoli: New Museum Books. ISBN 0-8478-2247-8. 
• Heller, Dana A. (1993). "Hothead Paisan: Clearing a Space for Lesbian Feminist Folklore". New York Folklore 19 (1-2): 27–44. 
• Queen, Robin M. "'I Don't Speak Spritch': Locating Lesbian Language," in Anna Livia and Kira Hall (eds.), ed. (1997). Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender and Sexuality. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-510470-6. 
• Scalettar, Liana. "Resistance, Representation and the Subject of Violence: Reading Hothead Paisan," in : Joseph A. Boone et al.(eds.), ed. (2000). Queer Frontiers: Millennial Geographies, Genders, and Generations. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 261–277. ISBN 0-299-16090-4. 
• Warren, Roz (ed.) (1995). Dyke Strippers: Lesbian Cartoonists A to Z. Pittsburgh, PA: Cleis Press. ISBN 1-57344-008-6. 

External links

• Hothead Paisan Website