The Advote's Tiara Chiaramonte breaks down the basics and giv an troductn to the fascatg world of gay Japane ics.
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GAY COMICS
Gay Comix (later spelled Gay Comics) is an unrground ics seri published om 1980–1998. Created by Howard Cse, Gay Comix featured the work of primarily gay and lbian rtoonists. Much of the early ntent was tobgraphil, but more diverse them were explored later edns. Autobgraphil them clu fallg love, g out, reprsn, and… * shota gay comics *
Gay Comix (later spelled Gay Comics) is an unrground ics seri published om 1980–1998. Created by Howard Cse, Gay Comix featured the work of primarily gay and lbian rtoonists. Gay Comix also served as a source for rmatn about non-mastream LGBT-themed ics and events.
YAOI: THE ART OF JAPANE GAY COMICS
* shota gay comics *
The ntents of Gay Comix were generally about relatnships, personal experienc, and humor, rather than sex. Artists producg work for Gay Comix clud. Kchen Sk Prs published the first five issu of Gay Comix; thereafter was published by Bob Ross, publisher of the Bay Area Reporter gay newspaper.
Andy Mangels eded issu #14 to #25 and a special issue featurg Barela; Mangels changed the tle to Gay Comics startg wh issue #15, part to divt of the “unrground” implitns of “ix”. Excerpts om Gay Comix were clud a 1989 anthology tled Gay Comics.
He published Dtroyer Magaze om 2006-2010, a publitn wh the stated purpose of brgg back "the adolcent boy as one of the ials of gay culture" and featured boys as young as 13. Yaoi (pronounced "yah-oh-ee") is a term typilly thrown around the g of the geek muny, but what is this gay Japane phenomna?