TCR Talks with Shifting Earth’s Cecil Castellucci

TCR Talks with Shifting Earth’s Cecil Castellucci

Interviewer- Michael Medina

Cecil Castellucci does it all. In addition to writing for DC Comics (Batgirl; Shade, the Changing Girl; Female Furies), she pens music, opera librettos, novels, and everything in between. With her new graphic novel, Shifting Earth (illustrated by Flavia Biondi and colored by Fabiana Mascolo), the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author brings a “hope punk” take on climate change. In the book, a dangerous particle storm (based on true global events) brings Maeve, a botanist, and Zuzi, an astronomer, on parallel journeys to save their respective universes from impending climate doom. Through Castellucci’s careful curation, we learn how our world might be if it had two moons, how politics and customs might change if we were ruled by raging storms and vanishing islands, what divisive sacrifices we might be willing to make in such a world.

We caught up with Castellucci while she was preparing for her newest residency in France. She gave us insight into her research methods, how she got her big break in comics, and why, despite all her myriad successes, she still sometimes calls it quits on writing. Meet the punk rock female fury of storytelling, Cecil Castellucci.

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