Meags Fitzgerald | |
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![]() Meags Fitzgerald in 2018 | |
Born |
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
Other names | HercuSleaze |
Website | www.meagsfitzgerald.com |
Meags Fitzgerald is a Canadian drag king, [1] illustrator and cartoonist. [2]
Fitzgerald earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary in 2009 and a certificate in design from NSCAD University in Halifax in 2012. She worked mainly as an illustrator, graphic novelist and comedic improviser [3] before becoming a drag king.
Fitzgerald published Photobooth: A Biography in 2014, a non-fiction graphic novel detailing her interest in chemical photobooths. [3] The book won the 2015 Doug Wright Spotlight Award. [4] She followed it in 2015 with the autobiographical graphic novel Long Red Hair. [5]
In 2019, she was nominated for the Prism Prize Award for directing a music video for Rich Aucoin's song The Middle. [6]
Fitzgerald's drag king pseudonym is HercuSleaze (pronouns he/him). He was a contestant on the first season of the reality TV competition Call Me Mother. [7] In 2022 HercuSleaze performed at Fierté Montréal's Superstars show to a crowd of 30,000 people, making him one of the first drag kings to perform to an audience of this size. [8]
Fitzgerald identifies as queer. [2]
Meags Fitzgerald | |
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![]() Meags Fitzgerald in 2018 | |
Born |
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
Other names | HercuSleaze |
Website | www.meagsfitzgerald.com |
Meags Fitzgerald is a Canadian drag king, [1] illustrator and cartoonist. [2]
Fitzgerald earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary in 2009 and a certificate in design from NSCAD University in Halifax in 2012. She worked mainly as an illustrator, graphic novelist and comedic improviser [3] before becoming a drag king.
Fitzgerald published Photobooth: A Biography in 2014, a non-fiction graphic novel detailing her interest in chemical photobooths. [3] The book won the 2015 Doug Wright Spotlight Award. [4] She followed it in 2015 with the autobiographical graphic novel Long Red Hair. [5]
In 2019, she was nominated for the Prism Prize Award for directing a music video for Rich Aucoin's song The Middle. [6]
Fitzgerald's drag king pseudonym is HercuSleaze (pronouns he/him). He was a contestant on the first season of the reality TV competition Call Me Mother. [7] In 2022 HercuSleaze performed at Fierté Montréal's Superstars show to a crowd of 30,000 people, making him one of the first drag kings to perform to an audience of this size. [8]
Fitzgerald identifies as queer. [2]