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"This oddball escapade delights from opening salvo to closing quip." - Publishers Weekly Praise for Hot or Not "With the way Campbell reduces Borduas's or Mondrian's abstractions even further, or captures what's cute about Calder's mien, she poo-poos macho ideas of artistic greatness, at the same time she showcases her own slyly unassuming skill." - Sean Rogers, The Globe and Mail "Hot Or Not: 20th-Century Male Artists,[...] is a hilarious, slyly subversive exploration of subjectivity, and the criticisms ultimately reveal more about the critic than they do the artists." - Oliver Sava, The A.V. Club "Hot or Not is a delightful, funny, and smart as heck book." - Emma Lawson, ComicsAlliance "We all need a break from the current onslaught of awful, and Campbell has given us one full of hope that, someday, all our world's horrors will be a distant memory." - Alenka Figa, Women Write About Comics "[Campbell] makes you laugh pretty hard even as she casts a critical net over everybody, including you." - John Seven, The Beat "Campbell skewers contemporary misogyny in these pages, but also praises the strength and perseverance of women and non-binary individuals who have to deal with this bullshit on a constant basis." - Oliver Sava, The A.V. Club "And you will eventually get all the answers in this ribald and ridiculous space burlesque. Just don't expect any hard sci-fi along the way. Lots of laughs and poking fun at Incels for sure, though, which is never a bad thing." - JR, Page 45

Campbell debuted with Koyama Press in 2016 with the hilarious hit Hot or Not: 20th-Century Male Artists. As a painter and humourist she has an incredibly trenchant wit both written and drawn, which she often levels at the monster that is misogyny. Being Canadian, Campbell's humour is also deeply rooted in self-deprecation, and in this Star Trek, space pulp pastiche she has cast herself in a dual role as a space captain and herself. A hilariously Meta, Malkovich-esque conceit that lets her play with conventions of fiction and non-fiction. Campbell masterfully combines humour and feminist critique in an utterly appealing way that recalls Broad City and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Remember, in space, no one wants to hear your defence of MRAs. In a political atmosphere where both science and female bodies are being assailed, Campbell's science fiction matriarchal takedown of male BS is like a light in the darkness. Think Broad City meets Galaxy Quest.