Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft

Blue Delliquanti is an artist, comic writer, and illustrator based in Minneapolis. Since 2012, Delliquanti has been regularly publishing the webcomic O Human Star, a science fiction story about a roboticist who returns to life as an android after his mysterious death sixteen years before. Acclaimed for its complex examination of identity and relationships, O Human Star won the 2012 Prism Comics Queer Press Grant. In addition to her self-published work, Delliquanti has contributed to several anthologies, including Smut Peddler and Womanthology, and she’s collaborated with David Axe, Kevin Knodell, and Nathan Schreiber on nonfiction comics.

Michele Rosenthal is an accomplished Brooklyn-based illustrator and graphic designer. The Sonic Man Machine, a Risograph fan comic illustrated by Rosenthal and written by her brother Mike, features 1970s electronica band Kraftwerk going on a surreal, hot-pink adventure. She recently published her first children’s ebook, The Trouble with Falling Asleep, a bedtime story for kids with active imaginations. Rosenthal’s illustrations have been featured in numerous print publications and online at Funny or Die and POPSUGAR. Her film blog, Criterion Affection, chronicles (often through illustration) her effort to watch every single film in the Criterion Collection, and she also runs Queer Portraits in History, a blog profiling historical LGBTQ figures.