You Brought Me the Ocean by Alex Sanchez

With his fictional writing skills honed at the Fine Arts Work Center in Massachusetts, he chose to return to his seminal struggles with his sexuality and ethnoracial identity. Higher educated at Virginia Tech and Old Dominion University. Grown in Texas where he also struggled with coming out as gay. In all his fiction, Alex draws deeply on his own autobiographical experience. He brings his extraordinary skill at building ethnoracial and queer teen story-worlds to DC’s teen super-hero reboots.

To this latter, famed list we can now add Alex Sanchez, author of DC’s hot-off-press, You Brought Me the Ocean (2020).Īlex brings more than his novel-writing narrative chops to DC’s new line of teen graphic novels. And, from long form narrative fiction to comics we have notables such as Marjorie Lu, Stephen King, Jonathan Lethem, Margaret Atwood, Duane Swierczynski, and Greg Rucka. Along with this history, there have been notable creator cross-overs and bi-directional cross-flows.įrom comics to long form narrative fiction we have notables like Stan Lee, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Dennis O’Neil, Chris Claremont, and G. Comics history is intermedial, seeing its evolution as a journey of creative cross-pollinations with stage, photographic, musical, film, animation, radio, and long and short form prose narrative arts.

You Brought Me the Ocean by Alex Sanchez