New Anthology 'Be Gay, Do Comics' Vividly Depicts the Queer Experience

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• MEATMEN AN ANTHOLOGY OF GAY MALE COMICS (34 RULTS)
• TAG: GAY COMICS
• NEW ANTHOLOGY BE GAY, DO COMICS VIVIDLY DEPICTS THE QUEER EXPERIENCE
• MEATMEN: AN ANTHOLOGY OF GAY MALE ICS
• MEATMEN 25 ILLTRATED ANTHOLOGY GAY COMICS BOOK BONUS
• GAY COMIX HISTORY WH ANDY MANGELS
• BE GAY, DO COMICS IS THE MOST DIGTIBLE HISTORY BOOK OF ALL TIME
• GAY COMICS BOOKS
• REVIEW: BE GAY, DO COMICS IS AN INCLIVE AND DIVERSE QUEER ANTHOLOGY
• BE GAY, DO COMICS
• TTBM, GAY ADULT IC ANTHOLOGY FRENCH, NOW ON SALE
• GAY IC BOOKS
• CATEGORY: BROTHER TO DRAGONSBROTHER TO DRAGONS2 NEW DIGAL EDNS NOW AVAILABLE TO MAC ERS. POSTED ON FEBARY 17, 2010APRIL 12, 2010 BY CLASS COMICS — 1 COMMENT CLASS ACCS DIGAL EDNS OF BROTHER TO DRAGONS #1 AND IN THE BLK OF AN EYE #1 ARE NOW AVAILABLE TO MAC ERS.THE CLASS ACCS DIGAL EDNS OF THE HIGHLY ACCLAIMED BROTHER TO DRAGONS #1 AND IN THE BLK OF AN EYE #1 ARE NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD BY MAC ERS.CREATED BY THE TALENTED TEAM OF WRER FRANçOIS PENED AND ARTIST CARLOS GARCíA, BROTHER TO DRAGONS #1 IS A WONRFULLY RICH IC PLACED THE MIDDLE AG AND BRGS CLASS COMICS TO A LAND HAS NEVER BEEN BEFORE. IN THIS PLACE, DRAGONS ARE WORSHIPPED AS SACRED BEGS, AND SEX BETWEEN MEN TAK ON A DIVE ASPECT.IN THE BLK OF AN EYE #1 WAS BETIFULLY CRAFTED BY ARTIST/WRER HVH AND NTAS THREE VERY DIFFERENT STORI LOAD WH HOT AND HEAVY SEX… ALL ARE TRIPS TO A MYSTER LANDSPE OF GEO MCLED MEN, WHO’S REALY WILL BE CHANGED… THE BLK OF AN EYE.THE DIGAL EDNS ARE LOAD WH OL EXTRAS SUCH AS NCEPTUAL ARTWORK, BEHD THE SCEN RMATN AND A TON OF OTHER WICKED STUFF.FRANçOIS PENED POSTED ON JUNE 3, 2008APRIL 12, 2010 BY ROBERT FRASER FRANçOIS PENED IS THE WRER FOR BROTHER TO DRAGONS!HE IS A TEACHER, ICS CRIC (BOTH FOR HIS SE THE GAY COMICS LIST AND VAR FRENCH S AND PUBLITNS) AND OCSNAL TRANSLATOR (ALAN MOORE’S JACK B. QUICK AND THE MIRROR OF LOVE, A BOATLOAD OF SIMPSONS ICS, AMONG OTHERS).HE HAS WRTEN 3 SHORT SCRIPTS FOR THE ONLE GAY ROMANCE ICS ANTHOLOGY YOUNG BOTTOMS LOVE, THE THIRD ONE IS CLUD THE BOOK VERSN PUBLISHED BY TIM FISH, THE EDOR. A SHORT PROSE STORY OF HIS IS ALSO CLUD BT DATE EVER, A TE STORI ANTHOLOGY PUBLISHED BY ALYSON BOOKS.HE LIV THE SOUTH WT OF FRANCE WH HIS PARTNER.FOR MORE ON FRANçOIS PLEASE VIS AND FOR MORE ON THE BROTHER TO DRAGONS SERI VIS CARLOS GARCíA
• IDW TO PUBLISH UPG QUEER COMICS ANTHOLOGY BE GAY, DO COMICS OM THE NIB

MEATMEN AN ANTHOLOGY OF GAY MALE COMICS (34 RULTS)

Over the next year, the ic would revis Andy — touchg on the stigma of the disease, the stigma of homosexualy, the medil muny’s nfn over the disease’s unpredictabily, the difficulty of gettg to experimental treatments, and many other topics and issu facg AIDS patients. Wh the Co havg reversed s posn on gay people, Marvel cid that 1990 was the year they were gog to have someone wh superpowers really actually e out the pag of their ic books! Rick Vech self-published a limed seri lled Brat Pack, a really dark satire of mastream ic books, sort of ak to Watchmen some ways but like… In , the Batman analog Midnight Mk was a flamboyant gay man who sexually ab his sikicks.

DC ics spent that year fully embracg the new Co l regardg LGBTQ+ characters by first havg the former supervilla Pied Piper e out as gay the openg pag of The Flash (vol.

They kept that trend gog 1992 puttg the reformed villa Lightng Lord a gay relatnship, and implyg that the heroic duo Shrkg Vlet and Lightng Lass were a uple, and Jtice League Quarterly #8 sually mentned that Tasmanian Devil was gay (not the Looney Tun one, I know you were thkg ) by havg him exprs how acceptg the team was.

TAG: GAY COMICS

So, Northstar says he knows the hardships gay people face, sce he is gay… that mak Major Mapleleaf even angrier bee Northstar isn’t g his fame to help gay people or act as an AIDS activist. The issue received a ton of acclaim om the LGBTQ+ muny for tacklg the AIDS crisis so well, alg wh HIV stigma and homophobia simultaneoly, and fally gettg Northstar out of the closet. The issue touch on almost everythg happeng NYC leadg up to the Stonewall Rts — police rptn, mob n gay bars, Andy Warhol, Judy Garland — and leav off right before the police raid begs.

In March of 1993, Lynn Johnston’s syndited ic strip “For Better or For Worse” — nng daily newspapers sce 1979 — began a story which long-nng character Lawrence Poirier me out of the closet, beg the first openly gay teenager and first gay person of lor (as his father is Brazilian) a syndited newspaper ic strip.

They created a mi-seri lled Sebastian O, the lead which was basilly a gay Jam Bond (and I don’t know about you but I’m dyg for the film adaptns!

NEW ANTHOLOGY BE GAY, DO COMICS VIVIDLY DEPICTS THE QUEER EXPERIENCE

) In Enigma #4, the Enigma enty awakened the latent homosexualy of s host Michael Smh — was only an eight-issue seri but was still the lead character for the seri grapplg wh his own sexualy. In Miltone Media — which published and distributed s ic books through DC — superhero Fa was outed by a telepathic supervilla Blood Syndite #8 — makg him the first black gay superhero by a mastream ic book publisher, even though he never really embraced who he was. (This also ma Spectral the first gay character for Malibu Comics but sce they were only gog to be around another year before beg absorbed to Marvel and basilly fotten, that’s kd of cintal.

MEATMEN: AN ANTHOLOGY OF GAY MALE ICS

In Marvel’s New Warrrs #48, a time-travelg Jtice would disver that his father — up to this pot pated as a pretty unsympathetic abive father character — was a closeted homosexual. Shadow Cabet revealed two of s female superhero, Donner and Blzen, were together, and Static #16, the ma character’s bt iend Rick Stone me out after survivg a btal gaybashg at the hands of whe supremacists. DC also released Chiaroscuro: The Private Liv of Leonardo Da Vci, a bgraphy of Leonardo Da Vci that left all the juicy gay parts that ually get dropped.

MEATMEN 25 ILLTRATED ANTHOLOGY GAY COMICS BOOK BONUS

Jt a uple of months later DC’s seri The Spectre (#45) a story lled “Acts of God”, the Spectre (and his alter-ego Jim Corrigan) learned to overe his own homophobia and stand up agast anti-gay vlence beg done the name of relign. A big part of that n probably be creded to Neal Pozner, who was the Creative Director for DC Comics for a time and who was an HIV-posive gay man. At the end of the fourth issue of Tempt, which was published 1997, Jimez clud an edorial which he dited the miseri to Pozner and publicly me out as a gay man — believed to be the first time a creator me out the pag of a ic book.

In 1998, Mangels and Mart troduced a gay man named Yoshi Mishima to Star Trek Marvel’s Star Trek: Starfleet Amy #17 — still not non, still about 18 years before actual Star Trek would have s first actual gay man. The ic strips “Troy” (by Michael Derry) and “Chelsea Boys” (by Glenn Hanson) — both of which would end up published var gay newspapers and magaz — both lnched that year as well.

GAY COMIX HISTORY WH ANDY MANGELS

” And then San Diego Comic Con Internatnal happened — the first edn of Out Comics, a gui to the work of LGBTQ+ ic creators, was released by Andy Mangels and an ashn edn of Gay Force Quarterly appeared at the nventn as well, creatg que a stir (until no fished issu were ever released. The only real difference between 1984 and 1985 that I’m aware of though is that by the end of 1984, every major ic book publisher had troduced at least one gay character (kd of). Eclipse ntued not rg whatosoever about the Co, publishg a story lled “Dance on a Razor’s Edge: A Ballet on the Death of Y Mishima” Night Mic #2, cludg an erotic dream by Mishima about Sat Sebastian (who is a Catholic sat the gay muny has kd of -opted.

But, perhaps most importantly, 1986 was the year that Meatmen was lnched by Leyland Publitns — was an anthology book of primarily erotic gay ics. And so Homosexualy: Legimate, Alternate Deathstyle me to be published — a “non-fictn” book claimg to be “the facts” but actualy a whole bunch of propaganda about how evil homosexuals were.

There were implitns (later nfirmed by the creators) that the two mor characters Hood Jtice and Capta Metropolis were gay and a relatnship together.

BE GAY, DO COMICS IS THE MOST DIGTIBLE HISTORY BOOK OF ALL TIME

Eclipse wasn’t makg thgs ls gay eher, even gog so far as to produce a three issue miseri lled Hotspur which clus a gay barbarian named Suu of Xoo — a clear parody of Conan the Barbarian, I thk. At about the same time as that seri began, First Comics published Jon Sable, Freelance #45, where the tle characters acpani his gay iend Gray Adler on a yacht to Cann – ’s a plite storyle, but volv closeted gay actors and people dyg of AIDS. They also ma on the lead characters their seri Phaze a gay man named Artem John who had a lengthy history of gay rights activism prr to the begng of their story.

The big news of the year would mostly e om DC Comics, who troduced their first gay superhero Extraño (real name Gregor la Vega) the issue Millienium #2. Extraño exemplified virtually every stereotype of gay men, which was an tentnal effort by his creators to get the pot across whout g any language that would vlate the Co. Maggie was a very popular character, and the March 1988 issue of Superman (vol 2) #15 — unr the wrg of John Byrne, whom you may rell was sistent on Northstar beg gay — she beme the first openly lbian character DC ics.

GAY COMICS BOOKS

As if that all wasn’t enough to make five them, they also troduced to mor gay characters (of urse whout g the word — they had to nsir the Co!

REVIEW: BE GAY, DO COMICS IS AN INCLIVE AND DIVERSE QUEER ANTHOLOGY

Meanwhile Donna Barr began publishg The Dert Peach — a ic book seri tailg the World War II adventur of Erw “The Dert Fox” Rommel’s fictnal gay brother Maned Rommel. (Artists Agast Rampant Government Homophobia), which was released the UK that year, orr to raise money to fight agast the anti-gay legislatn Clse 28.

BE GAY, DO COMICS

Shortly afterwards, Jericho Wilson and Mark Phillips found the first gay amatr prs associatn (or APA) which they lled Northstar after, you know, Northstar.

A matter of months later, Andy Mangels and Roger Klore found the send gay APA which they lled The APA That Dare Not Speak Its Name (after the famo Osr Wil speech). Instead, they replaced them wh a le that required all social group — cludg homosexuals — to be portrayed a posive light, and that rogatory referenc to sexual orientatn uld only be ed for dramatic purpos.

While the book's memorable tle is juicy enough -- a take off on ABO Comix popular meme, "Be Gay Do Crime" -- 's the wi-rangg llectn of die ic strips wh the pag that mak this anthology worthwhile. The ic creators spotlighted Be Gay, Do Comics origally buted their work onle on The Nib, a home for daily "polil rtoons, ics journalism, humor and non-fictn. Comic book publisher IDW Publishg saw the cultural importance of Be Gay, Do Comics and offered to partner wh The Nib producg and distributg the anthology.

TTBM, GAY ADULT IC ANTHOLOGY FRENCH, NOW ON SALE

"The Homophpbic Hysteria of the Lavenr Sre" by Kazimir Lee and Dorian Alexanr is a soberg, powerful, and evotive exploratn of the history of queer rights and our ntued need to stand up and speak out for each other.

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The history of gay life Puerto Ri is powerfully and joyfully explored Rosa Colon Guerra's "Puerto Ri's LGBT Communy is Ready to Kick the Door Down, " and wh the 2020 electn nearly upon , "A Covert Gaze at Conservative Gays" by Sam Wallman is a ank and straight-forward look to what mak right-wg queers tick. When discsg the history of queer ics, perhaps one of the most important thg to note is that beg openly gay 1980 was a potentially reer-endg move, particularly the cis male-domated world of ics.

CATEGORY: BROTHER TO DRAGONSBROTHER TO DRAGONS2 NEW DIGAL EDNS NOW AVAILABLE TO MAC ERS. POSTED ON FEBARY 17, 2010APRIL 12, 2010 BY CLASS COMICS — 1 COMMENT CLASS ACCS DIGAL EDNS OF BROTHER TO DRAGONS #1 AND IN THE BLK OF AN EYE #1 ARE NOW AVAILABLE TO MAC ERS.THE CLASS ACCS DIGAL EDNS OF THE HIGHLY ACCLAIMED BROTHER TO DRAGONS #1 AND IN THE BLK OF AN EYE #1 ARE NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD BY MAC ERS.CREATED BY THE TALENTED TEAM OF WRER FRANçOIS PENED AND ARTIST CARLOS GARCíA, BROTHER TO DRAGONS #1 IS A WONRFULLY RICH IC PLACED THE MIDDLE AG AND BRGS CLASS COMICS TO A LAND HAS NEVER BEEN BEFORE. IN THIS PLACE, DRAGONS ARE WORSHIPPED AS SACRED BEGS, AND SEX BETWEEN MEN TAK ON A DIVE ASPECT.IN THE BLK OF AN EYE #1 WAS BETIFULLY CRAFTED BY ARTIST/WRER HVH AND NTAS THREE VERY DIFFERENT STORI LOAD WH HOT AND HEAVY SEX… ALL ARE TRIPS TO A MYSTER LANDSPE OF GEO MCLED MEN, WHO’S REALY WILL BE CHANGED… THE BLK OF AN EYE.THE DIGAL EDNS ARE LOAD WH OL EXTRAS SUCH AS NCEPTUAL ARTWORK, BEHD THE SCEN RMATN AND A TON OF OTHER WICKED STUFF.FRANçOIS PENED POSTED ON JUNE 3, 2008APRIL 12, 2010 BY ROBERT FRASER FRANçOIS PENED IS THE WRER FOR BROTHER TO DRAGONS!HE IS A TEACHER, ICS CRIC (BOTH FOR HIS SE THE GAY COMICS LIST AND VAR FRENCH S AND PUBLITNS) AND OCSNAL TRANSLATOR (ALAN MOORE’S JACK B. QUICK AND THE MIRROR OF LOVE, A BOATLOAD OF SIMPSONS ICS, AMONG OTHERS).HE HAS WRTEN 3 SHORT SCRIPTS FOR THE ONLE GAY ROMANCE ICS ANTHOLOGY YOUNG BOTTOMS LOVE, THE THIRD ONE IS CLUD THE BOOK VERSN PUBLISHED BY TIM FISH, THE EDOR. A SHORT PROSE STORY OF HIS IS ALSO CLUD BT DATE EVER, A TE STORI ANTHOLOGY PUBLISHED BY ALYSON BOOKS.HE LIV THE SOUTH WT OF FRANCE WH HIS PARTNER.FOR MORE ON FRANçOIS PLEASE VIS AND FOR MORE ON THE BROTHER TO DRAGONS SERI VIS CARLOS GARCíA

Gay Comix was strongly nnected to that rebell legacy of Wimmen's Comix, but tablishg self as s own dividual anthology wh a wholly different purpose. Inspired by the unique storytellg experience ics offer, Associate Edor Matt Lubchansky and several other queer artists teamed up to create Be Gay, Do Comics, an anthology of short ics tailg queer history, stori, and experienc.

Through all of the amazg stori and experienc wh, Be Gay, Do Comics enurag the LGBTQ muny to stand up for one another adversy and celebrate the history that brought them to today.

Enjoyable for both queer dividuals and alli alike, Be Gay, Do Comics celebrat the LGBTQ muny and s history wh entertag, tg, and heartfelt stori of the queer experience. It [assembl] some superhero piec and some re science fictn piec, but looks at the history of gay liberatn om the ey of a Martian who’s been exiled om his home pla due to prejudice.

IDW TO PUBLISH UPG QUEER COMICS ANTHOLOGY BE GAY, DO COMICS OM THE NIB

Turns out, lonizatn is to blame for that—if one don’t know the history of untri Asia, Ai, and the Middle East, Be Gay, Do Comics portrays jt how different the regns were before lonizatn. Intertgly, there was only one story set durg the AIDS crisis of the 80s—”The Dream of a Gay Separatist Town” by Archie Bongvanni—and the crisis wasn’t even the foc.

But the wordg uld have been better thought-out— immediately jumped out at me and took me out of the experience that Be Gay, Do Comics was tryg to be for me. The are the jt some of the ics you’ll fd this massive queer ics anthology om The Gay, Do Comics is filled wh dozens of ics about LGBTQIA experienc, rangg om personal stori to queer history to cuttg satire about pronoun panic and brands sperate to -opt pri.