Comic writer Jude Ellison S. Doyle returns to the Capes and Tights Podcast for Episode 272 on March 11, 2026. To prepare for the conversation, we have compiled four comics by Doyle you should read.
Jude Ellison S. Doyle is an author, journalist, and comic book writer living in upstate New York.
Under his former pen name “Sady Doyle,” Jude founded the feminist blog Tiger Beatdown in 2008. He is the author of Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear… and Why (Melville House 2016), which has been called “smart, funny and fearless” (Boston Globe), “compelling” and “persuasive” (New York Times Book Review). The Atlantic predicted that “Trainwreck will very likely join the feminist canon.”
Doyle’s second book, Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy and the Fear of Female Power (Melville House, 2019) was named a Best Non-Fiction Book of 2019 by Kirkus Reviews and was shortlisted for Starburst Magazine’s Brave New Words award. His first non-fiction book under his real name, DILF: Did I Leave Feminism, was published by Melville House in the fall of 2025.
In 2021, Jude published his first comic: Maw, a limited-series horror comic with artist A.L. Kaplan, for BOOM! Studios. His follow-up, The Neighbors with artist Letizia Cadonici, was published in 2023, and was nominated for a 2024 GLAAD award for “Outstanding Comic.” Both are now available in collected edition. Jude’s third limited series with BOOM! Studios, Be Not Afraid with artist Lisandro Estherren, debuted in summer 2025, and Dead Teenagers, a limited series with artist Caitlin Yarsky, will be out from Oni Press in March 2026.
Jude Doyle has led several successful social media awareness campaigns, including #MooreandMe and #MenCallMeThings, won the Women’s Media Center’s first Social Media Award in 2011, and was a founding staffer at Rookie Magazine and a contributor to the bestselling anthologies Book of Jezebel, Nasty Women and It Came From the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror.
His pieces have appeared in Elle, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Buzzfeed, and all across the Internet. He co-wrote the libretto for a German experimental music piece about Princess Diana. He currently writes a regular column at Xtra, Canada’s premier LGBTQIA+ magazine. He has a newsletter that’s not on Substack. He’s been invited to Italy three times, which was not enough. He once made a flowchart about farts for the New York Times.
Maw (BOOM!)
Critically acclaimed journalist & opinion writer Jude Ellison S. Doyle, breakout artist A.L. Kaplan, and colorist Fabiana Mascolo (Firefly: Brand New ‘Verse) weave a provocative horror story of sisterly bonds, deep trauma, and the dormant monsters buried within us, perfect for readers of Redlands and Something is Killing the Children!
Marion Angela Weber hopes to gain some perspective and empowerment at a feminist retreat with her sister Wendy on the remote island of Angitia – some perspective that isn’t at the bottom of a bottle for once.
But after an assault on her first night on the island, everything goes horribly wrong. The violent encounter awakens something monstrous in Marion, triggering warped mutations in her body, and bringing forth a hunger she can’t bring herself to name…
The Neighbors (BOOM!)
The neighbors are anything but what they seem…
When Janet and Oliver Gowdie move to a quaint mountain town, their teenage daughter Casey and two-year-old Isobel become part of a horrific chain of events that will forever change their family . . . It’s impossible to know who to trust or who is still human.
Casey’s behavior is increasingly unpredictable. Janet is more distant. Isobel is happy-go-lucky and seems to enjoy the attention poured onto her by Agnes. And Oliver? He’s out to uncover whatever malevolent forces seems to have taken root under and inside his home.
Steeped in Celtic, Irish and English folklore, Jude Ellison S. Doyle (Maw) joins artist Letizia Cadonici (House of Slaughter), and colorist Alessandro Santoro (Bloom) to tread new ground in changeling horror. A tale perfect for fans of Eat the Rich and The Nice House on the Lake!
Be Not Afraid (BOOM!)
What if your greatest blessing became a curse you couldn’t escape?
From acclaimed horror writer Jude Ellison S. Doyle and artist Lisandro Estherren comes a Southern Gothic descent into religious dread, generational shame, and cosmic terror.
Cora Reims once embraced a vision of pure light—an angelic messenger who left behind a terrible miracle: her son, Jordy. Despite his angelic countenance, it soon becomes apparent that Jordy is a plague upon the Earth, spreading death and cruelty wherever he goes. After years of torment and generational shame for her transgression, Cora receives a divine revelation on the eve of Jordy’s eighteenth birthday: God has finally heard her pleas and Heaven demands the destruction of her devastatingly powerful child.
As plagues descend on the town of Enoch and the townspeople’s faith fractures under fear, Cora must now confront her past, her purpose, and the divine horror she once mistook for grace with the guidance of a mysterious, new stranger.
Dead Teenagers (Oni Press)
Since 1997, five friends have been trapped in the ultimate nightmare as a mysterious entity forces them to relive their first prom night over and over again… and re-kills them in new and increasingly insane ways each time. They dress up. They party. They make out. And no matter what they try to change, they always die… until now. Something is about to break the cycle that has kept Alicia, J.T., Ryder, Brandy, and their group of friends locked in a bizarre purgatory beyond all understanding… but what they find on the other side will be the most disturbing revelation of all.
Hell is the ’90s in this brash and brutal, genre-distorting ode to the generation that gave us Scream and Buffy the Vampire Slayer — and what’s become of them since — as GLAAD Award–nominated writer Jude Ellison S. Doyle (Maw, Be Not Afraid) and hyper-talented artist Caitlin Yarsky (Black Hammer Reborn, EC’s Cruel Universe) unleash the year’s most clever and compulsively page-turning horror thriller.
Hits local comic shops on March 18, 2026 from Oni Press.
