AMERICAN* FUJO* is Alexis Rippen & Tshirt3000's forthcoming anthology on fandom culture, trans identity, and general overanalysis.

Our project tries to asterisk and complicate its categories of both "American" and "Fujo" as much as possible, interrogating gender and sexuality, power of all kinds, and the virtual communities we call fandom.

We asked our contributors questions along those lines: How has being a fan affected your gender or sexuality? How has our gender or sexuality affected how we engage in fandom? Who is a fujoshi, who wants to be one, and who doesn't get the choice? In America-centric fan spaces, what is necessarily suppressed? How can we trouble the category and dominance of "American" from within and without? Finally, what does it mean to be in a community that's overwhelmingly virtual, as reliant on digital social platforms as it is on fictional media, both owned by another party? And what affects or acts are uniquely enabled by these virtualized desires and sexuality?

Our contributors range from actual self-identified American fujos to writers who are emphatically neither. They answer these questions through illustration, comics, essays, and autotheory, developing creative ways to capture fandom and its discontents. The anthology surveys a wide range of topics, from transgender fujoshism (both ways) to race and belonging within theoretically progressive fandom. We want to make the full vibrancy of fandom as accessible as possible, and theorize both its possibilities and its limits through this anthology. We hope you're as excited to read AMERICAN* FUJO* as we are to make it!

We've organized 14 skilled and interesting writers and comic creators at our baseline funding goal, and found four more comic artists after we hit our stretch goal. The book itself will be printed at 5.5" x 8.5" in black & white, with perfect binding. The full-color cover is illustrated by Shalida, with type design by Alexis. We were inspired by Marshall Arisman's original 1998 cover of American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. And Yaoi. It is 18+

Thank you everyone who contributed to the outstanding success of our Kickstarter, we look forward to showing you what we've made!

We are accepting late pledges through Kickstarter until late summer.