Template:Infobox artist Meags Fitzgerald is a Canadian drag king,[1] illustrator and cartoonist.[2]
Career
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]
Bibliography
- Photobooth: A Biography (2014)
- Long Red Hair (2015)