As art holds an sential place the LGBT muny, The Advote striv to she a light on the work of gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr artists who are movg the cultural needle wh the artists spotlight sectn. Disver slishows om gay art opengs across the world wh mediums that range om photographs, to oils, to sculpture, and more. Read terviews and profil of ntemporary artists who portray LGBT history, sex, culture, and polics wh their works. Browse through the artist spotlight and other sectns that celebrate gay culture.
Contents:
- GAY COMIX — UNEARTHG THE HISTORY OF THE SEMAL LGBTQ PUBLITN GAY COMIX
- GAY IC BOOKS
- 10 IMPORTANT GAY MOMENTS COMIC BOOK HISTORY
GAY COMIX — UNEARTHG THE HISTORY OF THE SEMAL LGBTQ PUBLITN GAY COMIX
Bill Schmelg has been active as an Amerin rtoonist Portland, Oregon, sce the 1960s. He ially worked for magaz like Physique Pictorial unr the pen name Torro, but later beme known as "The Hun". Unr his pen name, he ma a uple of pornographic gay ic... * gay comic artists *
They've always ronated strongly wh my personal experience as a gay, batnal kid, and ultimately man. My ics are generally not about beg gay –- I prefer to tegrate queer issu to larger narrativ.
""In creatg the syndited strip, Glen Hanson and I sought to pict urban gay life the Chelsea neighborhood of NYC cir the late 1990s to mid-2000s. As the stori evolved over the years and our narrativ grew more plex, we set out to display and then shatter stereotyp, showg that all people -- gay and straight -- are often not whom they first appear to be. Ralf König is perhaps the German Howard Cse — both even eded magaz lled Gay Comix (or, König’s se, SchwulComix).
GAY IC BOOKS
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König’s work often als wh relatnships — while most of his work featur gay upl, the universaly of his gags have earned him a big straight fanbase as well. He’s also worked film — perhaps his most famo work on this si of the Atlantic is his script for The Killer Condom, a film based on König’s graphic novel of the same name, about a gay tective vtigatg a se where gay men at a no-tell motel have had their penis bten off.
Charlworth’s ics are wi-rangg terts: She’s had a recurrg strip New Scientist lled “Life, The Universe and (Almost) Everythg”, and has done books on history and science for children and adults, as well as strips for the gay prs, The Guardian and more. He started his reer drawg for many gay magaz but he’s also wrten for children’s ics like The Smurfs and Donald Duck.
10 IMPORTANT GAY MOMENTS COMIC BOOK HISTORY
And like Tom of Fland, Tagame is a pneer his field; he’s been lled the most fluential gay manga creator Japan, and thanks to translatns of his work like Gunji or the multi-artist English anthology Massive, he’s famo world-wi. PLEASE DO NOT SCROLL DOWN TO VIEW THESE DRAWINGS IF YOU ARE LIKELY TO BE OFFENDED BY IMAGES OF HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVITY.