Signifying the complex of identifications and theorizations arising from transgender life, _trans-/\*_ is a hybrid formation with an uncertain and largely unexplored relation to comics. The identifying prefix _trans_ has been attached to the practices and identities of various sex and gender minority groups since the early 1960s: past usages include _transvestite_, _transsexual_, and _transgenderist_ (Rawson and Williams 2014). Since the 1990s, it has been more commonly affixed to _gender_ to form _transgender_—an umbrella term that now categorizes gender nonconforming identities largely outside the framework of sexuality (Feinberg 1998; Love 2014; Valentine 2007). Today, the term _trans_ is often used as shorthand to collect together various forms of gender nonconforming behavior and identification, while the terms _trans-_ and _trans\*_ are used to describe modes of theorization and inquiry grounded in transgender knowledges and cultural praxes (Stryker, Currah, and Moore 2008; Hayward and Weinstein 2015). Due to the relatively recent appearance of _transgender_ as an identificatory term, trans comics have been largely indistinguishable from queer comics, which currently constitute one of the fastest-growing areas of comics production and study (Chute 2017, 349). However, this queer wave has not yet given much attention to the relevant specificities of trans comics authorship and...