Alix

Alix

Character Overview

Gender: Female

Orientation: Asexual

Publisher: Image

Character Type: Secondary

Alignment: Good

AKA: N/A

Character Details

Summary: The critically acclaimed Sex Criminals by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarksy tells the story of two young lovers who discover they can freeze time whenever they have an orgasm. Alix is an asexual businesswoman who enters an altered state by falling from great heights. She is one of only a handful of asexual comic characters.

Database Links: Comic Vine

Important Issues: Alix makes her first appearance and talks about her sexuality in Sex Criminals #13.

Articles about Alix

When I was only a few pages into the issue, I wanted to drop everything and write Fraction and Zdarsky an email just thanking them. It didn’t matter if it ended up in the back of the next issue; I couldn’t care less about that. I just wanted them to know that what they did mattered. The character they created impacted someone. I managed to finish the issue even though my hands were shaking by the end, and I wrote them an email saying just that—but not before sending my friend an all-caps text: OMFG SEX CRIMINALS HAS AN ASEXUAL CHARACTER (Read more)

Allison Racicot, "(A)sexuality in Sex Criminals," December 14, 2015.

I think if there was more representation (or any) of asexual and aromantic characters in comics as well as other books aimed at young readers, and other media, that my friends, and myself, would have known I wasn’t broken or weird. I didn’t learn about asexuality as an orientation until I was out of college. I stumbled across it online and thought, “Oh, wow! That’s what I am! This makes so much sense!” I don’t want anyone else to have to go through that, so I write asexual characters in my stuff. I hope to write something in the future, be it a comic or a novel, that’s aimed at younger readers. [Note: This article is not about Alix; it is about the importance of asexual representations in comics.]
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Andrew Wheeler, "Jughead, bughead, and the need for asexual romantic heroes in comics," Comics Alliance, March 31, 2017.