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Generally speaking, Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture (QSMPC) reserves issues with an evident theme to those crafted by guest editors. Recent examples include our issues on post-human drag, material culture and transnational queerness. Occasionally, though, themes emerge in our issues, serendipitously and quite by accident. Take the current issue of QSMPC, for example. I would love to be able to tell you that we intended it to focus on queerness in animation and comics. There would be every reason to do so, given the increased willingness of filmmakers and their distributors in recent years to stretch the boundaries of appropriate subject matter in animation, much as their counterparts in live action films and television have. Instead, it was the case that a series of very good articles that happened to share that focus fell into our laps, one after the other, and we wanted to share them with you without waiting for a Special Issue.