![]() ![]() I'm not so much appropriating this culture as saying, like, 'Here's a culture and this is how it could be in an ideal world where someone like Bitty could thrive. And Tyrrell says Ukazu lets her fans listen in, so to speak, on what's happening backstage. For example, the characters have their own Twitter and Tumblr accounts that drop hints about upcoming plotlines. ![]() Partly because he finds it adorable, and partly because he admires how Ukazu keeps the story going across multiple social media platforms even during the weeks when she's working on the comic and isn't putting new panels online. Even he, not normally the type to go for a gay college hockey romance, is a fan. "'Check Please' has absolutely exploded," he says. But it was like I was doing this anthropological study."Īnd Ukazu has also come up with a brilliant strategy for keeping fans on the hook, something that's made her comic an internet sensation, says Gary Tyrrell, who writes about the world of web comics on his blog Fleen. "Which is like, as a black woman, who am I to say I'm othering a bunch of white guys who play this sport. "I don't want to other them too much," she adds. Ukazu says she became fascinated by hockey and fraternity culture in college, and felt the need to "infiltrate" it. ![]()
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