In this revision of my micro essay, “Gender, Sexuality, and Sports in Check, Please!,” I will focus on the idea of being queer in sports, namely hockey, and how masculinity and sports culture in the webcomic’s world affect these characters (in this case, Jack Zimmermann and Eric Bittle). In order to support this idea, I will be using several of the comics, ranging from year one to the most current update, and analyzing certain aspects of them in depth. This would differ from my original essay, which focused on the analysis of one specific scene and and relied on the use of footnotes to explain.
Ngozi Ukazu’s webcomic, Check, Please!, follows Eric “Bitty” Bittle, a former figure skater turned hockey player navigating his way through college…