Xanthippe "Xan" Hutcheon (born January 7, 1981) is a British-American webcomic artist based in Salt Lake City, Utah best known for Thinking Too Much to Think Positively, Pandora's Tale and Amazonessnote . Her experiences as a trans woman are a major source of inspiration to her work, where the positive and negative aspects of being openly transgender are explored.
In 2018, Xan made a visual guide to the various pride flags that got some viral coverage
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Her personal website, Comics by Xan, hosts Thinking Too Much to Think Positively. You can read it here and read Pandora's Tale on its dedicated site.
Tropes associated with this person:
- Author Appeal: Anime (especially of the Magical Girl variety), Cat Girls, bad puns, transfeminine representation in media, unnaturally coloured hair.
- Pungeon Master: Xan often includes cheesy puns in Thinking Too Much To Think Positively. In fact, most of the strip titles are puns. One such strip is even called "Enter the Pungeon"!
- She Also Did: Xan is best known for her webcomics, though she was also the writer of Bulbagarden's "On the Origin of Species" column as well as a contributor to their forums under the name Bikini Miltank. She was also an admin for Wikimoon and wrote an online encyclopedia for Sailor Moonnote .
- Trans Tribulations: A common theme in both Thinking Too Much to Think Positively and Pandora's Tale.
- Write What You Know: The reason why so much of Xan's work is about being transgender, specifically transfeminine.
